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means to produce electrical currents caused by erly arranged in regard to the strings of the
the vibrations of the steel strings of the musical - instrument would be satisfactory. nevertheless
instrument; the said strings being permanently it is preferable to'construct the solenoid means
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, tailed, description, and more particularly in the
annexed .claimsgreference is had to the attached
drawings for an illustrative embodiment of the to the ?elds surrounding each string.
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The process of magnetization is represented in
invention wherein,
Figure 1 is a plan view of a guitar with my in 4 detail in Figure 7 wherein 33 represents a battery,
34 a double pole throw switch connecting the coils
vention applied thereto.
to the battery and producing the magnetic. ?eld
Figure 2 is a side view thereof.
Figure 3 is a plan view of the translating device represented in dotted lines. Coils 35, 36, 31 and
with top cover removed.
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'33 are each reversed with respect to its neighbor
Figure 4 is a- sectional view through the line as shown. Suitable iron cores are shown at 39, 40, 10
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4-4 of Figure 3, and showing also how the device > 4| and 42.
The small size of the translating device 6 is
Figure 5 is a sectional view through the line due to the fact that. there are no permanent
5-5 of Figure 3.
magnets within it. The magnetic intensity of a
15. Figure 6 is a plan view of the translating device permanent magnet, small enough to be placed in
showing an alternative method of fastening the the device 6, would not be effective, due-to the
distance of the strings I, as shown in Figure 4, to
same to instruments. without sound holes.
Figure 7 is a diagrammatic view of the inven
magnetize the strings adequately. The coils l0
tion illustrating four coils and cores, the method and II with cores l2 and I3 are converted. into
of magnetizing the steel strings, and the lines of momentary electro-magnets to produce an intense 20
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with respect to the magnetized zones on the
strings. The result may be represented in Fig
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I, which are relatively insensitiveto' other in- instruments, of a plurality of insulated wire coils "
each having iron cores, a case made of magnetic
ing a larger number of smaller electromagnets, . sides on the case to hold a non-magnetic top
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netized strings.
are vibrated.
secutively on one side of the strings, cores con- , instruments, of a case made oi magnetic material
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40
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sounds.
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9. The method of reducing noise when elec
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22. The method of electrically increasing the cally amplifying steel string musical instruments
volume of steel stringed musical instruments
which consists in utilizing a wire coil to magnetize
portions of the steel strings by a magnetic in
?uence of short duration, and utilizing the same
wire coil to produce currents when the strings
are vibrated and amplifying the said currents
and translating them into sounds.
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theminto sounds.
25. The combination in steel stringed musical
instruments having a plurality of substantially
parallel strings, a series of wirecoils, each hav 10
which consists in utilizing a_monrentary mag- ' ing acore, the faces of all of the cores being sub
- ARNOLD LES'I'I.