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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 1996
Filed:
May. 03, 1995
Kenji Tumura, Osaka, JP;
Fernandes Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
A stringed instrument having a device for sustaining the vibration of a string; the stringed instrument being a musical instrument having plural strings with the mass and tension of each string being different, which has a pickup unit for detecting the vibration of a string, an amplifying unit for amplifying an electric signal detected by the pickup unit, an electromagnetic driver for emitting magnetic energy to drive a string by a driving signal output from the amplifying unit, and an excitation balance matching unit for providing well-balanced excitation to each of the plural strings and/or a magnetic flux emission controlling unit for increasing the quantity of magnetic flux emission in the direction of a string.