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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7786373 | Device and method for automatically tuning a stringed instrument, particularly a guitar A device for automatically tuning a stringed instrument, particularly a guitar, comprising: a detecting device for detecting a note produced by strumming a string and for outputting a digital signal corresponding to the detected note; a memory device for storing def... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7595444 | Electromagnetic transducer for instrument pickups This invention relates generally to electromagnetic transducers, and more specifically, to devices that convert the mechanical vibrations of a magnetically permeable object, such as a ferromagnetic instrument string, into an electrical signal using electromagnetism.... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7427710 | Pickup apparatus A pickup apparatus for independently detecting the vibrations of each of a plurality of strings, and an electronic stringed instrument utilizing the pickup apparatus. The pickup apparatus minimizes the crosstalk effects between the different pickups by positioning t... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7399918 | Digital guitar system A digital guitar system and method includes a digital guitar and a digital guitar interface device, and a method of converting a conventional guitar into a digital guitar. The guitar is adapted to generate analog audio signals, convert those signals into digital sig... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7304232 | Joystick gain control for dual independent audio signals A joystick control (20) mounted on the body (12) of an electric guitar (11) adjacent to the customarily picked section of the strings (16) provides convenient simultaneous independent gain control of two pickup signals. A pick may be held... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7288713 | Bobbin and pickup for stringed musical instruments A bobbin for a pickup including a base and a top or cover spaced and connected by a post structure integral thereto. The post structure has one or more cavities for receiving one or more pole pieces. The post structure includes a plurality of lateral windows so that... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285714 | Pickup for digital guitar A reluctance pickup for a guitar including a pair of magnetic pole pieces disposed within wire coils. The coils are oppositely wound and wired in series. Each pole piece has an elongated magnetic pole end extending above its respective coil. The pole pieces are disp... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7259318 | Magnetic pickup device for a stringed musical instrument with large free shape low impedance coil for noise cancelation This invention is related to a magnetic pickup device for stringed musical instrument with one or more metal strings made by magnetic permeable material. The magnetic pickup device presented comprises of at least one signal picking coil for sensing of the mechanical... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256343 | Interchangable pre amp module for an electronic string instrument An interchangeable modular insert for a electric stringed instrument is mounted in a cavity cut into the rear of the instrument. The rear insertion module provides rapid exchange of electronic components of different manufacturers. Placement of a module into the ins... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7244886 | Invisible electromagnetic pickup for a stringed musical instrument The present invention provides an electromagnetic pickup comprising a bobbin, a single coil wound around the bobbin and at least one pole piece coupled to the bobbin. The pickup is adapted for use with a stringed musical instrument including a body portion, a neck p... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7227076 | Advanced magnetic circuit to improve both the solenoidal and magnetic functions of string instrument pickups with co-linear coil assemblies An electromagnetic pickup for a stringed musical instrument incorporating a magnetic structure placed between two elongated collinear coils of opposing polarity. The magnetic structure includes a number of ferromagnetic polepieces that extend through the collinear c... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220913 | Breakout box for digital guitar A guitar interface device for a digital guitar system is adapted to receive digital signals, convert those signals into analog signals, and output the analog signals, so that the digital guitar system may be utilized with conventional analog equipment. The interface... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220912 | Digital guitar system A digital guitar system and method includes a digital guitar and a digital guitar interface device, and a method of converting a conventional guitar into a digital guitar. The guitar is adapted to generate analog audio signals, convert those signals into digital sig... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7208673 | Bi-directional switch apparatus with electric guitar applications A selector switch for musical instruments, such as electric guitars. is provided having a single, manually operated toggle member adapted to perform greater functionality. A selector switch is disclosed which indexes longitudinally for the electrical connection of p... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7166793 | Compact hum-canceling musical instrument pickup with improved tonal response A two-coil pickup having a magnetic flux shield configuration which shields an upper coil from magnetic flux variations caused by unwanted noise and concentrates this noise flux in a lower coil. The magnetic flux shield also concentrates magnetic flux generated by m... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166794 | Hexaphonic pickup for digital guitar system A novel multi-signal guitar pickup is provided. The pickup includes a coil assembly for each string that is capable of generating two signals which can be combined together in a predetermined manner to generate an x-plane and a y-plane signal. The pickup is particul... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7145063 | Top pickup for musical stringed instruments A musical stringed instrument having a top pickup for producing variable tones and pitches. The top pickup is mounted on top of the strings. Present pickups are all mounted beneath the strings. The top pickup can be permanently mounted, slidably mounted and it can b... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7115809 | Banjo pick-up system A banjo having an improved pick-up system includes at least one pick-up mounted on or near the banjo head. In one embodiment, a plurality of holes are formed in the banjo head so that metallic heads of a pick-up system can extend therethrough while causing minimal d... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7115810 | Programmable/semi-programmable pickup and transducer switching system A programmable/semi-programmable pickup and transducer switching system includes a control, a plurality of switches communicatively interconnected to the control, an encoder communicatively interconnected to the control, a memory/buffer/drive with switching element ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7015390 | Triad pickup A removable and portable single pickup unit for stringed instruments such as guitars, and the like. The unit can be mounted inside of a sound hole of an acoustic guitar without damaging the guitar. The unit can combine inputs from three different pickups(such as a m... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6998529 | Method for switching electric guitar pickups A guitar pickup switching system for a three pickup guitar has a bridge pickup, a middle pickup, and a neck pickup for an electric guitar. This invention utilizes a switch arrangement which permits the three pickup guitar player to select outputs of the pickups in a... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6952884 | Apparatus for checking dimensional and geometrical features of pins An apparatus for checking the diameter and the roundness of pins, for example crankpins and main journals of a crankshaft rotating about its main axis of rotation (8), includes a measuring device, coupled to a Vee-shaped reference device (20) and inclu... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6881892 | Method of configurating acoustic correction filter for stringed instrument A method is provided for designing an acoustic correction filter applicable to a stringed instrument, which is composed of a string member operable to undergo a vibration, a support member for supporting the string member, a body member responsive to the vibration t... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6846981 | Electromagnetic humbucker pick-up for stringed musical instruments An electromagnetic Humbucker Pick-up for stringed musical instruments is disclosed. The device is a former (7) with two coils of wire (3) & (4) wound on having a common axis perpendicular to a set of ferrous strings (13), the first coil o... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6800800 | Electric guitar pickguard assembly An improved electric guitar and pickguard assembly are provided. The pickguard assembly includes a traditionally shaped deck plate for mounting to the body of an electric guitar. The deck plate is constructed at least partially, or entirely, of a multi-layered print... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6525258 | Electromechanical musical instrument pickup A musical instrument pickup having a central core bobbin with a first winding wound around the central core bobbin and a second winding wound around the first winding. Both ends of each winding are attached to a respective termination point. Each terminat... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6414233 | Pick-up assembly for stringed musical instruments A pick-up assembly for a stringed musical instrument includes first and second identical pick-ups in respective housings. The first pick-up is positioned toward strings of the instrument and the second pick-up is positioned toward inside of the instrument... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6316713 | Sound pickup switching apparatus for a string instrument having a plurality of sound pickups A sound pickup switching apparatus for a string instrument having a plurality of sound pickups, in particular for an electric guitar. The apparatus includes an operable switching device which is intended to connect the coils of the sound pickups in differ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6291758 | Pick-up for electric guitars A pickup has an upper bobbin which is elongated along a longitudinal plane, a lower bobbin which is elongated along the longitudinal plane, permanent magnetic pole pieces situated within holes in the upper and lower bobbins, screws holding said bobbins to... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6211671 | Interference-cancellation system for electromagnetic receivers A cancellation circuit removes interfering signals from desired signals in electrical systems having antennas or other electromagnetic pickup systems. The cancellation circuit provides amplitude adjustment and phase adjustment to electrical signals induce... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6121537 | Guitar pickup system for selecting from multiple Gibson and Fender tonalities An electric guitar pickup system is provided to generate a plurality of selectable desired Gibson and Fender tonality sounds from a single guitar. The pickup system includes a bridge pickup unit, a neck pickup unit, and a multiple position tonality select... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6111185 | Sensor assembly for stringed musical instruments A sensor assembly for a stringed musical instrument having a plurality of movable strings includes a bobbin extending longitudinally, at least one magnet disposed within the bobbin for producing a magnetic polarity, and a coil extending longitudinally on ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6103966 | Transducer for a stringed musical instrument A transducer for a stringed instrument comprises a first uppermost coil and a second lowermost coil with the axes of the coils coincident. Permanent magnet pole pieces are arranged in the first coil and metallic non-magnetized pole pieces are arranged in ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5908998 | High inductance electromagnetic pickup for stringed musical instruments An electromagnetic pickup for stringed musical instruments has at least one bobbin mountable to the instrument beneath the instrument's strings, each of the bobbins having a body and a coil wrapped around the body, the body having one or more holes theret... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5898121 | Electrical musical instrument pickup system including switchable series-connected hum-canceling windings A pickup system for an electrical musical instrument having strings includes two pickup windings to respond to playing of the strings. A third winding is included. A switch connects any of the three windings in electrical series with either of the remaini... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5894101 | Single-coil electric guitar pickup with humbucking-sized housing A pickup for an electric guitar includes a housing made to fill an existing cavity in an electric guitar body originally used for a dual-coil humbucking pickup. The pickup also has a single pickup coil mounted in the housing.... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5834999 | Transducer for a stringed musical instrument A transducer for a stringed instrument comprises a first uppermost coil, and a second lowermost coil with the axes of the coils coincident. At least one permanent magnet pole piece associated with the coils and a shield of magnetically permeable material ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5811710 | Electromagnetic pickup for stringed musical instruments An electromagnetic pickup for a stringed musical instrument has an upper bobbin having an upper bobbin body and an upper bobbin coil of wire wrapped around the upper bobbin body; a lower bobbin positioned below and coaxial to the upper bobbin, the lower b... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5763808 | Switching apparatus for electric guitar pickups Switching apparatus for selection of pickup coils of an electric guitar having dual coil bridge humbucker pickups, dual coil fingerboard humbucker pickups and a single coil intermediate pickup. The apparatus comprises a four-gang three-way switch and a tw... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5744744 | Electric stringed instrument having automated accompaniment system An electric stringed instrument having an integral accompaniment system is proposed. The vibrations of the strings on the electric stringed instrument are detected as analog signals by a pickup device. A portion of the detected signal is extracted, has it... | 04/28/1998 |
