Guitar instruments

Guitar Instruments

Guitar instruments are made with special cavities in the upper plate to receive pickups. A leading example is the well-known stratocaster guitar manufactured by the fender company, which has three separate cavities each of which will receive a single-coil pickup. Since a conventional humbucker pickup occupies twice as much space as the conventional single-coil pickup, the use of humbuckers for instruments of that type has been restricted accordingly. Has previously made and sold under the name “hot rails” a humbucker pickup of compact size that fits into the standard cavity for a single-coil pickup. The object and purpose of the present invention is to provide a humbucker of compact size that fits into the standard cavity for a single-coil pickup, that picks up the vibrations of only a very short length of the string, and that has greatly improved sensitivity and a high quality output signal. According to the invention a humbucker pickup for an electric guitar includes a matched pair of elongated pickup coils, a transversely polarized permanent magnet disposed between and parallel to the coils, and associated core structures for the coils which are so arranged as to narrow the magnetic field applied to the associated strings.

More specifically, the core structure for each coil is made deliberately unsymmetrical on its two ends, and the two core structures are placed parallel to each other but in reverse symmetry. One end of each core structure extends close to the strings while the associated end of the other core structure does not. This results in a narrowing of the magnetic field aperture applied to the strings, while also maintaining substantially identical impedances of the two coils.

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