[sdiy] Guitar Synth boards ready... OT Question

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Can anyone briefly explain how a piezo works with a guitar string? 
Magnetic pickups are pretty obvious, but piezo?

"Paddock, Toby" <tpaddock at seanet.com> wrote:
>All Electronics has cute little piezo discs #PE-45.
>The crystal itself is about 0.4" (1cm) dia.
>But I'm guessing that's still too wide.
>
>I just cut one with scissors and it looks like a pretty 
>clean cut. (As far as I can tell with these old eyeballs.) 
>I expected it to crumble and shatter and bend and such. 
>I'll take it to work and look at it under a microscope.
>
>Later,
>Toby Paddock
>http://www.seanet.com/~tpaddock
>
>
>Harry "dipped in BBD's and rolled in cornflakes" Bissell wrote:
>> 
>> Mono Piezo pickup... sure.
>> 
>> HEX piezo pickup....  woah that would be tough.
>> 
>> If I had to try it... I would check out some to the piezo stuff made my
>> Measurement Specialties (Digikey)... but not the little plastic piezo
>> benders.   They did not work well for my drum application, and would
>> be SURE to be worse for a guitar app.
>> 
>> The Brass benders have a very brittle piezo ceramic... I think its
>> possible the
>> heat of cutting them with a dremel tool might harm them as well.  But
>> hey...
>> for the price of those benders why not try it ???
>> 
>> How about taking apart old crystal phonograph cartridges ???
>> 
>> H^) harry
>> 
>> Ingo Debus wrote:
>> 
>> > Am Sonntag, 20.06.04 um 23:51 Uhr schrieb nils pipenbrinck:
>> >
>> > > I'm lucky 'cause I own a guitar with a piezo pickup.
>> >
>> > Has anyone tried to diy a piezo pickup? Can these piezo discs (from
>> > buzzers etc.) be cut, with a dremel perhaps?
>> >
>> > Ingo
>
>

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