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In 1980 Larry Fishman made a prototype acoustic pickup in his basement, and by 1981 he had taken orders for pickups from the Guild Guitar Company.In 1982 the C.F. Martin Guitar Company ordered Fishman pickups; to accommodate it, Fishman and his company rented a larger manufacturing space, and began designing and making pickups for banjos, mandolins, violins, cellos and basses as well.
The first electrical string instrument with pickups, the "Frying Pan" slide guitar, was created by George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker around 1931. [1] Most electric guitars and electric basses use magnetic pickups. Acoustic guitars, upright basses and fiddles often use a piezo electric pickup. [citation needed]
Hybrid guitars typically use a piezoelectric pickup to generate the acoustic-like signal, the same type of pickup used in most electro-acoustic guitars. Such pickups can produce a reasonable facsimile of acoustic tone even in solid bodied instruments. Aftermarket piezo pickups allow conventional electric guitars to be converted into hybrid ...
E = electric acoustic model with piezo pickup systems: E in 1980: piezo pickup (bar type under saddle) + 3 controls (bass, treble, volume) E in 1981: 2way piezo pickups (bar type under saddle & dot type under lower end-pin) + 3 or 4 controls (bass, treble, volume, and mix (PMSII on L-10E))
The company's first instrument was a bass guitar, made in 1972 for Jack Casady. [2]: 35ff This bass incorporated a massive electronics suite, with state variable filtering capability, and had pickups mounted on brass tubing so that their position could be adjusted.
The Ovation Guitar Company is a manufacturer of string instruments.Ovation primarily manufactures steel-string acoustic guitars (both 6 and 12-string versions) and nylon-string guitars, often with pickups for electric amplification. [5]