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What kind of pickups to go on this?

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:38 am
by PoodlesAgain

Re: What kind of pickups to go on this?

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:24 pm
by toomanycats
Assuming you're serious . . . .

It looks like there's forty three tuning posts on that thing. Maybe a quad of whatever is on the ten string guitar below, set up side by side.

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Re: What kind of pickups to go on this?

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:37 pm
by tonebender
If you could find a set of Harpmasters they would work nicely.

Re: What kind of pickups to go on this?

Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:24 pm
by BatUtilityBelt
Good question. The good news is there are pickups intended for [insert not guitar instrument]s. I have a harpsichord that has a single Barcus Berry pickup spanning the middles of all its strings. It's not the same as this piezo one, but it's maybe somewhere to start. https://www.amazon.com/Barcus-Berry-400 ... B0029E4PRY

Re: What kind of pickups to go on this?

Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:05 pm
by PoodlesAgain
The instrument, a zither, is held at a local historical society, no chance to mod it!

Apparently there are many zither configurations, was popular, but very few got to play it beyond basics.