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  2. Pickup (music technology) - Wikipedia

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    A pickup is an electronic device that converts energy from one form to another that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through ...

  3. PAF (pickup) - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-1950s Gibson looked to create a new guitar pickup different from existing popular single coil designs. Gibson had already developed the Charlie Christian pickup and P-90 in the 1930s and 40s; however, these designs—like competitor Fender's single-coil pickups—were fraught with inherent 60-cycle hum sound interference.

  4. Humbucker - Wikipedia

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    A humbucker, humbucking pickup, or double coil, is a guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out noisy interference from coil pickups. Humbucking coils are also used in dynamic microphones to cancel electromagnetic hum.

  5. Technical (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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    A Zhongxing Grand Tiger technical with a mounted FN MAG during the First Libyan Civil War. A technical, known as a non-standard tactical vehicle (NSTV) in United States military parlance, is a light improvised fighting vehicle, typically an open-backed civilian pickup truck or four-wheel drive vehicle modified to mount SALWs and heavy weaponry, such as a machine gun, automatic grenade launcher ...

  6. Fender Noiseless Pickups - Wikipedia

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    The pickups installed on Strat Plus guitars display "Fender Lace Sensor" on the cover. Later "post-Fender" versions sold by the Lace Music Co. have "Lace Sensor" embossed on the cover. The Gold Lace Sensor model was the pickup of choice for years by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Buddy Guy on their Signature Series Stratocasters. The Strat Plus ...

  7. Electrostatic pickup - Wikipedia

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    An electrostatic pickup converts mechanical motion to an electrical signal by means of varying electrical capacitance. This type of pickup , in which the moving plate is a vibrating metal reed , is used in some types of electronic pianos and organs as an inexpensive method of generating tones.

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