Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...

PITTSBURGH, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new magnetic sweeper for attracting and picking up various ...

Pickups are the components that turn vibrations from the strings into electricity for sound and can be seen as the "heart" of the instrument. Electric guitarists have long known that the magnetic ...