Rockin’ Patent – “Magnetic Pickup for Stringed Instrument”
Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 2,896,491 Filed: 22 June 1955 In the name of: E. Lover (assigned to Gibson, Inc.) Title: Magnetic Pickup for Stringed Musical Instrument What’s claimed: “A magnetic pickup for a stringed musical instrument comprising an elongated permanent bar magnet magnetized from side to side, a plurality of pairs of cylindrical pole pieces of magnetizable soft iron material arranged at spaced intervals along said magnet with the pieces of each pair engaging opposite sides of the magnet and projecting thereabove, a first coil wound around all of the pieces on one side of said magnet, a second coil wound around all of […]
