FAQ
Technologies
They all use a polymer plastic material that generates a voltage signal when they are compressed.
For the harp/piano and other contact mic pickups, we use a thin film of this material sandwiched between two layers of plastic for protection.
When the pickup is fixed to the instrument soundboard, the vibrations of the soundboard cause the pickup to bend which in turn causes stretching and compressing of the active material so producing an output voltage identical to the vibrations of the soundboard caused by the strings.
This tiny signal is matched in our preamplifier and passed to the ampifier by the connecting cable.
Yes we do. As the leading UK manufacturer of acoustic instrument pickups, we also make a special product for Pilgrim Harps, they use it in their Wave series of harps.
We brand this technology under "Continuous Pickup Technology"
The reason for this is that rather than using a single pickup on each individual string. Our system uses a continuous pickup that collects all the vibrations of the soundboard which includes the characteristics of the body of the harp and not just the strings.
Obviously the strings on a harp interact with the soundboard to produce the unique sound of that harp. We believe that it is important to collect all these vibrations to reproduce the most accurate sound possible.