Origin of magnetic pickups????

Roy Ayres · From: Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.

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I stumbled across this on the web. It sounds authentic. Thanks for sharing it.

http://www.b0b.com/infoedu/tutmarc1.html

chas smith R.I.P. · From: Encino, CA, USA

Mr. Tutmarc never got as much recognition as he deserved, however, evidently there are many patents related to electrical sound reproduction and musical instruments going back to 1876.

Tom Olson · From: Spokane, WA

Too bad Tutmarc didn't find a good patent attorney -- he might have been a rich man.

Alvin Blaine · From: Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA

I think LLoyd Loar had one of the first patents on a coil wound magnetic pickup. Back in the late twenty's he was making electric instruments and made a solid body electric viola. In 1931 he made the first electic piano and even had a pickup on his own mandolin.
Of course his acoustic work over shadows his electric inovations, like the Gibson F-5 mandolin that Bill Monroe played or the tone ring on the banjo that Earl played, and on and on.
He also had the first patent on a volume pedal.

Alvin Blaine · From: Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA

Lloyd Loar

CrowBear Schmitt · From: Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France

Thanx for the link to Lloyd, Alvin

verrrrrrry interesting......

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