 This image shows three single coil pickups on a Stratocaster guitar. Left to right: bridge, middle and neck pickups. A single coil pickup is a type of magnetic transducer for the electric guitar and the electric bass. It electromagnetically converts the vibration of the strings to sound. Image File history File links Stratocaster_pickups. ...
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Three magnetic pickups on an electric guitar. ...
A transducer is a device, usually electrical or electronic, that converts one type of energy to another. ...
Left: Rosa Hurricane, a heavy metal-style solid body guitar. ...
Fender Precision Bass Bass Guitar is a commonly spoken phrase used to refer to the electric bass and horizontal acoustic basses, a stringed instrument similar in design to the electric guitar, but larger in size, commonly fretted and sometimes fretless and with a lower range. ...
History
Beauchamp
 Sketch of Rickenbacker "frying pan" lap steel guitar from 1934 patent application. In the mid 1920s George Beauchamp, a Los Angles, California guitarist, began experimentation with electric amplification of the guitar. Originally using a phonograph pickup assembly, Beauchamp began testing many different combinations of coils and magnets hoping to create the first electromagnetic guitar pickup. He wound his earliest coils using a non-too-delicate motor out of a washing machine, later on switching to a sewing machine motor, and eventually using single coiled magnets. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 371 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1680 × 2712 pixel, file size: 218 KB, MIME type: image/png) Other versions Rickenbackerfryingpanpatentsketch. ...
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George D. Beauchamp (1899 - 1941), inventor of musical instruments and co-founder of National Stringed Instument Corporation and Rickenbacker. ...
Beauchamp was backed in his efforts by Adolph Rickenbacker, an engineer and wealthy owner of a successful tool and die business. Beauchamp eventually produced the first successful single coil pickup. The pickup consisted of two massive "U" shaped magnets and one coil and was given the name, the horseshoe pickup. The two horseshoe shaped magnets surrounded the strings that passed over a single core plate(or blade) in the center of the coil (similar to the modern Bill Lawrence pickup). Adolph Rickenbacher (b. ...
Beauchamp outfitted the pickup in a custom built lap slide guitar. The production model that descended from this prototype became the Hawaiian Electro lap steel guitar, nicknamed the "Frying Pan" for it’s round, flat body. In 1931 Beauchamp founded the Ro-Pat-In Company with Rickenbacker and associates (Ro-Pat-In eventually became the The Electro String Instrument Corporation and subsequently the Rickenbacker International Corporation). The company introduced it's first "Electro-String Instruments" to the public in 1932. Chandler electric lap steel guitar, a modern solid body with the classic Weissenborn profile. ...
Mod revivalist band The Jams Bruce Foxton (left) on a Rickenbacker bass and Paul Weller on a Rickenbacker guitar Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker (IPA pronunciation: ) [1]), is an electric guitar manufacturer, notable for having invented the first electric guitar during the 1930s. ...
Gibson The Gibson Guitar Corporation introduced the "bar pickup" in 1935 for its new line of Hawaiian lap steel guitars. The pickup's basic construction is that of a metal blade inserted through the coil as a shared pole piece for all the strings. A pair of large flat magnets were fastened below the coil assembly. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
In 1936 Gibson introduced the ES-150, its first electric Spanish styled guitar. The ES-150 was outfitted with the bar pickup. Jazz guitar innovator, Charlie Christian, began playing an ES-150 in the late 1930s with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. This caused the popularity of the electrified guitar to soar. Due to Christian’s close association with the ES-150 it began being referred to as the “Charlie Christian Model” and Gibson’s now famous bar pickup as the “Charlie Christian pickup” or “CC unit”. The Gibson Guitar Corporations ES-150 guitar is generally recognized as the worlds first commercially feasible electric guitar. ...
Charlie Christian (29 July 1916 – 2 March 1942) was an American jazz guitarist. ...
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Sound
 String effect on a single coil (electric guitar). The coil is connected to a multimeter that indicates the voltage changes when the string moves. This signal is normally sent to the amplifier The sound of a single coil pickup can range from the dark and fat midrange sound of the Gibson P-90 to the bright and clear Fender Stratocaster single-coil tone. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Common designs
Gibson P-90
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The P-90 is a single coil pickup designed by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. These pickups have a large flat coil with adjustable steel screws as pole pieces, and a pair of flat alnico bar magnets lying under the coil bobbin. The adjustable polepieces pick up the magnetism from the strings. There are 2 major varieties of P-90 pickup that differ mainly by mounting options: Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (768 × 1024 pixel, file size: 330 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) P90 pickups of my Epiphone Casino Cherry File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other...
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The P-90 is a single coil electric guitar pickup produced by Gibson since 1946. ...
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- Soap bar casing has true rectangular shape and the mounting screws are contained within the coil perimeter, positioned between the pole pieces, between strings 2-3 and 4-5, thus creating irregular and somewhat unusual pattern. Occasionally they are mistaken for pole pieces, thus sometimes P-90 is erroneously said to have 8 pole pieces. The "soap bar" nickname most probably comes from its predominantly rectangular shape and proportions, and the fact that the first P-90s on the original Gibson Les Paul Model of 1952 were white.
- Dog ear is a casing type with extensions at both sides of pickup that somewhat resemble dog's ears. These are extensions of the predominantly rectangular cover that encompass the outlying mounting screws. Dog-ear P-90 pickups were commonly mounted on Gibson's semi-hollowbody guitars like the ES-330 and occasionally on solid body models like the Les Paul Junior. The same pickups were also available on Epiphone models (since Gibson was building Epiphone guitars in the 1950s) and the design is best remembered for its appearance on the hollow body Epiphone Casino of the mid to late 1960s.
Sound of P-90 is somewhat brighter and more transparent than a later Gibson pickup, a humbucker, though not quite as crisp and snappy as Fender's single coil pickups. The Gibson Les Paul is one of the most recognizable solid-body electric guitar designs in the world. ...
The Gibson ES-330 is a semi-hollow electric guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. ...
The Gibson Les Paul Jr. ...
Epiphone Casino VT The Epiphone Casino is a true hollow body electric guitar manufactured by Epiphone, a branch of Gibson. ...
Traditional humbucker pickup, uncovered A conventional humbucker (or Humbucking pickup) is a type of electric guitar pickup that uses two coils, both generating string signal. ...
Telecaster design The Fender Telecaster features two single-coils. The neck pickup produces a mellower sound, while the bridge pickup produces an extremely twangy, sharp tone with exaggerated treble response, because the bridge pickup is mounted on a steel plate. These design elements allow musicians to emulate steel guitar sounds, making it particularly appropriate for country music. The Fender Telecaster, also known as a Tele, is a typically dual-pickup, solid-body electric guitar made by Fender. ...
A Dobro style resonator guitar Steel guitar, strictly speaking, refers to a method of playing using a metal slide (or steel) on a guitar played horizontally, with the strings uppermost. ...
Pickups are selected with a 3-position switch, and two wiring schemes exist:
- Vintage: 1) neck pickup with treble cutoff for a bassier sound; 2) neck pickup only; 3) bridge pickup only.
- Modern: 1) neck pickup only, with no treble cutoff; 2) neck and bridge; 3) bridge pickup only.
The Fender Esquire has a variation to the Vintage wiring scheme by using the scheme on a single pickup. This gives a treble cutoff in the neck position, normal in the middle position, and a tone control cutoff in the bridge position.
Stratocaster design
 Stratocaster pickups, viewed along the neck profile. Note that the poles are of different heights. The traditional Stratocaster design guitar features three single-coils. The guitarist can control what pickup or pickup combination to activate with a lever switch. They are usually referred to as the bridge, middle and neck pickups based on their proximity to those parts of the instrument. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 590 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Single coil Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ...
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Electrical switches. ...
A Violin Bridge blank and finished bridge A bridge is a device for supporting the strings on a stringed instrument and transmitting the vibration of those strings to some other structural component of the instrument in order to transfer the sound to the surrounding air balls. ...
The neck is the part of certain string instruments that projects from the main body and is the base of the fingerboard, where the fingers are placed to stop the strings at different pitches. ...
Pickup position, number of coil winds, wire types, magnets and other factors shape the tone. Pickups in the neck position usually give louder, mellower and warmer sound, while bridge pickups have lower output and produce a brighter, sharper and more harmonic-rich tone. The reason the neck pickup has the most output is that the string's vibration has a higher amplitude at the neck position. Thus, the bridge pickup has less output than the neck pickup. Some manufacturers overwind the bridge pickup for more output to compensate for this difference. Amplitude is a nonnegative scalar measure of a waves magnitude of oscillation, that is, magnitude of the maximum disturbance in the medium during one wave cycle. ...
The poles have different heights. This staggering is done to compensate for the output of each string for two reasons. The first reason is because the fretboard has a radius (also called camber) of between 7 and 12 inches. Naturally the strings will follow the radius of the fretboard and so must the magnets, generally speaking. The second reason is that some strings have naturally higher output, the plain or unwound G string being the most significant and this calls for these magnets to be further compensated, resulting in an apparent odd looking stagger. Fender Strat pickups generally follow the traditional design and have the G string's magnet as high as the D string's, but this causes the G string to overly dominate all the other strings due to its higher output. Traditionally in the 1950s and 1960s, string sets came with a wound G string, but it was difficult to bend across the fretboard in modern rock and blues styles of music. In the 1970s, string manufacturers introduced the non-wound G string, which was easier to bend, but had a much higher output. In order for the G string to have the same output the G pole should have the greatest gap between the string. Fretted guitar fingerboard. ...
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The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
Example of bending on electric guitar A bend is a guitar technique that involves bending the tone upwards, thus making the note or chord sound sharper than normal. ...
The pickup selection switch has 5 positions. Positions 1, 3 and 5 activate only one pickup (bridge, middle or neck respectively), while positions 2 and 4 activate a combination of two pickups (bridge and middle, or middle and neck, respectively). Some pickup sets have a reverse wound and reverse polarity middle pickup that when in combination with the normal bridge or neck pickups will cancel electromagnetic interference (noise/hum). The sonic effect of positions 2 and 4 is sometimes referred to as a "quack", and some guitar notation includes directions to use these pickup combinations. One example is "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits which is played in position 2 (bridge and middle)[1]. Early Stratocasters had only a three-way selector, but innovative guitarists found they could get an interesting tone by carefully balancing the selector switch lever between positions. Later on, Fender introduced the now standard 5 way selector switch. Sultans of Swing was the first single release of the British rock band Dire Straits. ...
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Notable single-coil pickups There are several well-known single-coil pickups that have a distinctive sound: - Gibson bar pickup (1935) - later called the Charlie Christian pickup (1938)
- Gibson P-90 (1946)
- Danelectro Lipstick
- Lace Sensor pickups (1987)
- Kinman Hx, patented noiseless passive Fender-like pickups by Kinman Guitar Electrix (1997)
- Fender Vintage Noiseless pickups (1998)
- Rickenbacker pickups (including the "Hi-Gain")
- Gretsch pickups (including the "DynaSonic")
- DeArmond pickups (found on various 60's guitars by various manufacturers but produced by the DeArmond pickup company, now made by Fender; including the 2K and 2000)
The Charlie Christian pickup was an early electric guitar pickup. ...
The P-90 is a single coil electric guitar pickup produced by Gibson since 1946. ...
Lipstick-tube pickups on a Danelectro electric guitar A lipstick guitar pickup is a form of single-coil magnetic guitar pickup having its electronics totally encased in a chrome-plated metal tube. ...
The Lace Sensor is a guitar pickup designed by Don Lace and manufactured by AGI (Actodyne General International). ...
Kinman Guitar Electrix is a small boutique Australian company that specializes in the design and manufacture of hi-tech innovative NoNoise pickups that solve noise problems as well as a line of No Soldering harness for electric guitar. ...
See also Traditional humbucker pickup, uncovered A conventional humbucker (or Humbucking pickup) is a type of electric guitar pickup that uses two coils, both generating string signal. ...
References - ^ Steve Cobham (June 1997). "NECK AND NECK - Gibson Les Paul and Fender Strat Compared". Sound On Stage.
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// History In the late 1930s in Winona, Minnesota, Harold Hal Edstrom, his brother Everett Leonard Edstrom and their friend Roger Busdicker had formed a very popular dance band. ...
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// History In the late 1930s in Winona, Minnesota, Harold Hal Edstrom, his brother Everett Leonard Edstrom and their friend Roger Busdicker had formed a very popular dance band. ...
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