Fiddle stick

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1990-02-22

1991-07-02

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84726, G10H 318

Patent

active

050276913

ABSTRACT:
An electric stringed instrument, namely a fiddle stick (10) and a combination magnetic and contact pickup (20) are disclosed. Fiddle stick (10) has a set of five metallic strings (16) being attached under tension along the length of elongated body (11). Elongated body (11) includes a head (12), a neck (13), a finger board (14), base segment (15), a tail piece (18) and a chin rest (33). An adjustable position combination electromagnetic and contact pickup (20) is suspendedly attached to elongated body (11) and includes a first coil (21), and a magnet (32). A second humbucking coil (29), having an opposite electrical sense to that of first coil (21), is suspended within elongated body (11) to inhibit electrical noise. The vibrations of strings (16) are physically sensed by the relative vibration of the mass of first coil (21) with respect to magnet (32) and electromagnetically sensed by the induction of an emf in first coil (21) by the changing magnetic flux field created by magnet (32) and metallic strings (16).

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patent: 4919033 (1990-04-01), Markov et al.
patent: 4941389 (1990-07-01), Wendler

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