[sdiy] Moog guitar guts

[Florian Anwander]

Hello Harry

> They also patented attaching the pickup directly to the guitar
> (tune-o-matic) bridge.  I have prior art (AHMW2001 etc) but
> they have the most lawyers, and getting Larry Hendry to testify
> would be real tough :^(
Sad enough.

> The hex piezo needs to live right near, or better still, ~in~
> the bridge to be most effective
btw: the Axon system does not use the vertical and horizontal
string vibrations, but longitudinal(!) wave to make a first detection of 
the pitch and after that they do a standard base note detection. The 
recommend also built-into-bridge piezo hex pickups as the best solution 
(at least in 1998 when I tested it, there were some guitars, which 
provided that). As far as I know for pitch recognition their system is 
still the fastest.

Florian