• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.24 no.3 s.192
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• pp.55-60
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• 2007

The electro-acoustic guitar pickup converts the vibration of strings to the electric signals, and delivers them to an amplifier. The vibration of the strings is transferred to the piezoelectric material through the saddle. This paper aims to improve sound quality for electro-acoustic guitars through the finite element analysis of the saddle. Firstly, the conventional pickup is modeled and analyzed with a commercial program called ANSYS. It is obvious that there exists interference phenomenon of stress. A structural modification of the pickup is performed, based on the beam theory. The modified structure is modeled and analyzed. Finally, the fabricated structures are subjected to the measurements and compared with the conventional pickup. It can be concluded that the interference with the modified structure is much less than that with the conventional structure, and that the sound quality is improved with the modified structures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.857-860
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• 2005

A guitar pickup transforms the vibration of strings to the electric signals, and deliveres them to an amplifier. A piezo pickup has interference problem between strings. The paper aims to improve sound quality for an electro-acoustic guitar through the finite element analysis. Firstly the conventional pickup is modeled and analyzed with a commercial program called ANSYS. It is obvious that there exists interference between the strings. The structural modification of the pickup is performed, based on the beam theory The modified structures are suggested, modeled and analyzed. Then the result are compared with those in the conventional pickup. It can be concluded that the interferences with the modified structures are much less than those with the conventional structure.