EP3721427A1

EP3721427A1 - Electric guitar with replaceable pickup, and pickup element for same

Info

Publication number: EP3721427A1
Application number: EP19701284.2A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Pirmin GIGER; Silvan KÜNG
Original assignee: Relish Brothers AG
Current assignee: Relish Brothers AG
Priority date: 2018-01-10
Filing date: 2019-01-04
Publication date: 2020-10-14
Anticipated expiration: 2039-01-04
Also published as: JP7298930B2; US20210407487A1; US11393442B2; CN111615727A; WO2019137857A1; EP3721427B1; JP2021510423A

Abstract

The invention relates to an electric guitar which contains at least one pickup (1) in a recess on the guitar body. The pickup (1) can be installed into a receiving frame (4) and has electric contact points which leads to the output port on the guitar body via a cable. The pickup (1) has a fixing plate (14) on the rear face of the pickup, said fixing plate being screwed onto the height adjuster (18) of the pickup (1) at a variable distance to the base (8) of the pickup (1) via a threaded bush (16). The fixing plate contains spring-loaded pins which are electrically connected to the coils of the pickup (1). The fixing plate (14) can be inserted into the receiving frame (4) from the rear face of the guitar body (3) into a recess without tools and can be removed again from the receiving frame (4) without tools. When the pickup (1) is inserted, the pins on the fixing plate (14) are connected to the electric contact points (5) on the receiving frame, and the fixing plate (14) is retained on the receiving frame (4) by means of permanent magnets.

Description

Electric guitar with interchangeable pickup

and pickup element for this

With electric guitars, a large variety of sounds can be generated, which are generated by the vibration of strings, which are then electrically amplified. A traditional electric guitar is equipped with one or two so-called pickups, which are arranged on the guitar body just below the strings, between the neck of the guitar neck, that is, between the rear end of the finger board and the bridge. Each pickup of a so-called pickup consists of an electrical coil of several thousand turns of painted copper wire around a magnetic core, and the two ends of the coil are electrically guided via an insulated cable to an amplifier system. The vibration of the string in the vicinity of one end of the coil induces in the same due to the changed by the string vibration magnetic flux electrical currents that are used for the electrical generation of sounds by means of the amplifier system, which then outputs the amplified electrical signals to a speaker. Although the change in the magnetic flux due to the vibrating string is very small, it is sufficient to generate a voltage of usually a few tens to a few hundred millivolts with a correspondingly high number of turns. The field strength change, and thus the induced stress, is greatest when the string swings back and forth to the pole instead of swinging laterally to and fro. The ferromagnetic strings should not be attracted to the magnet so much that their vibration is significantly affected, otherwise they sound impure. For particularly strong Magnets must therefore position the entire pickup farther away from the strings than with relatively weak magnets, which results in a reduction of the output voltage compared to an equal distance, so that there is no overall higher output voltage. Extra strong magnets therefore bring no advantages. And sonically, no magnet can affect because it only generates a magnetic field. It does not matter if the magnetic field is generated by a relatively expensive neodymium magnet, a cheap ferrite magnet, or even an electromagnet, the latter not common in guitar pickups. There is only one theoretical influence factor, namely the eddy currents that occur in the magnet when the magnetic flux is changed by the string vibration. Eddy currents increase the attenuation of the sound-forming resonance peak. But here are just the electrically hardly conductive ferrite, often referred to as ceramic magnets to produce the feeling of a higher valence, the expensive but electrically well-conductive alternatives such as AINiCo magnet superior, because with them the eddy currents and thus the damping negligible are. In a pickup, however, the magnet is usually only responsible for a very small part of the damping. The whole discussion about the magnetic material is therefore unfounded. In particular, no magnet can sound "warm" or even aggressive, ie a magnet has no frequency response.The causes for the "warm sound" of a pickup are always quite different.The sound is very dependent on the nature of the coils.

The major disadvantage of such a pickup is its vulnerability to low-frequency magnetic fields, such as those generated by power transformers and ballasts of fluorescent lamps. With changing magnetic fields, a voltage is induced in the coil. Therefore, a voltage in the pickup is also induced by these interference fields. This can easily be avoided by using two pickups instead of a single one and switching them in reverse polarity in series, ie one after the other. This causes an external magnetic field induces a voltage in both coils, but these voltages cancel each other because of the reverse polarity of the coils and thus at the output no voltage is delivered. The same thing happens with the useful signal, which is of course undesirable. But here you can easily remedy by reversing the polarity of the magnets in a coil. As a result, this coil produces a reversed polarity useful signal, which is polarized by the reverse polarity of the coil but right again. Thus, at the output appears twice as high voltage as with only one coil. Such pickups are called humbuckers or humbucking pickups which are usually enclosed with a sheet metal housing. They are used for example in the Gibson Les Paul and produce with two pickups with dual coils the Gibson tonality.

In contrast, produce three pickups, each equipped with individual coils, the so-called Fender tonality, and these single coil pickups are referred to as single coil pickups. Guitars with the so-called humbucker pickups will be used primarily for hard rock music, so for a hard and full sound, while those with Fender tonality or Fender Stratocasters called used for country music and produce a somewhat naselnden sound. Since time immemorial, the musicians want to be able to produce different sounds on their electric guitars, preferably sounds that go beyond what a single guitar offers sonority. For example, if a guitar is played with single reels, you might want to switch to a humbucker pickup and vice versa. Guitars that have two sequentially arranged pickups under their strings can be activated as desired by, for example, operating a switch with three positions. In one position of the switch, the front, the so-called neck pickup is active, in a middle position, both pickups are active and in a third position, only the rear, so-called Bridgte pickup.

US 2015/0294659 A1 proposes a further solution, as can be changed from one pickup to another, by several pickups is arranged on a rotatable disc, which thus rotatable on the guitar body is stored, in which case the respective desired pickup can be rotated under the strings and the turntable engages in this position. While this system allows the rapid change of tonality during play, tonality is limited to a limited number of pickups located on the turntable.

An installed pickup, whether mounted on the guitar body or on such a hub, is always hardwired and bolted to the surface and can be solved only with considerable effort and replace it with another pickup.

The object of the present invention is to create a guitar with no tools, that is, with purely interchangeable pickups, as well as to create the necessary pickup elements, so that these pickups in a large number and variety ever as needed in the guitar are easy and very quickly used, that is within 3 to 5 seconds. It should be possible in a particular embodiment of the guitar, the continuous switching on and off of at least two pickups. This object is achieved by an electric guitar with at least one pickup in a continuous recess on the guitar body, characterized in that the pickup from the back of the guitar body ago in this recess tool-less innert max. Can be used for 5 seconds while closing in his passport electrical contacts between its coils and connections in the recess, which lead via a cable to the output port on the guitar body, and that the pickup is held in his fit without tools by hand detachable. Furthermore, the object is achieved by a pickup element for an electric guitar, which is characterized in that it has a fixing plate with threaded bushing for the height adjuster of the pickup and a receiving hole for the guide pin on the base plate of the pickup, wherein the fixing plate on a associated receiving frame is fixed, which is intended for installation in a continuous pickup recess on a guitar body, and forms a fit for this fixing plate, without tools of Hand used and again from this mounting frame is solvable. For the continuous switching on and off of the pickups a touchscreen is located in a particular embodiment of the guitar on the outside of the guitar body and in or on the guitar body is an electronic circuit available, so by moving a finger on the touch screen, the individual pickups infinitely more or less can be switched on or off.

Exemplary embodiments of such a guitar with interchangeable pickups and also the pickup element used for this purpose are shown with reference to the drawings, and in the following description this will be described in more detail and the insertion and removal of the pickup element as well as its function and stepless input. and switching off the pickups is explained.

It shows:

A conventional guitar with three pickups, as well as a switching lever;

Figure 2: The empty guitar body of an electric guitar, with recesses for three quickly replaceable pickups;

FIG. 3: a bar magnet arrangement for the pickup;

Figure 4: A bar magnet arrangement for the pickup;

Figure 5: The receiving frame for the replaceable pickup;

Figure 6: The fixing plate with underneath the base plate on the pickup and

pickup;

Insert the pickup into the side brackets on the mounting frame;

Figure 8: A guitar body with two recesses for the pickups and further recesses;

Figure 9: The pickup with fixing plate and height adjustment thread in one

Side view;

Figure 10: The pickup with fixing plate and height adjustment thread in perspective view;

Figure 11: The pickup with fixing plate and contact heads seen from above;

FIG. 12 shows an alternative pickup with two rows of pickups;

Figure 13: a section of the guitar body with two recesses and next to the front recess the pickup to be used with its pickups visible on the top;

Figure 14: A section of the guitar body with two recesses and in addition to the front recess to be used pickup element with the pickups on the lower side, in the position for insertion;

Figure 15: A pickup element as it is inserted from the back of the guitar body ago; FIG. 16 shows an alternative embodiment of the fixing plate with central threaded hole;

Figure 17: The fixing plate of Figure 16 seen from the other side;

Figure 18: an alternative embodiment of the receiving frame;

Figure 19: The pickup with adjusting thread seen from below, on the

Pickups lying; Figure 20: The pickup lying on the pickups, with screwed on its back on the adjustment fixing plate;

Figure 21: The pickup with the four branching contact wires and next to the four mutually insulated contact pins for contact closure with the contact points on the receiving frame;

FIG. 22 shows a section of the guitar body from above with the recess for a pickup, with the six strings extending above it;

Figure 23: seen a section of the guitar body on its back, when inserting the pickup;

FIG. 24 shows the section of the guitar body on its rear side according to FIG. 23, with the pickup ready.

First, Figure 1 shows a conventional electric guitar with its components. The guitar body consists of a solid body 30, mostly made of wood. It has a connection socket 31 for the delivery of the electrical signals to an amplifier system. In the lower part of the outside of the guitar body two tone color controls 32, 33 and a volume control 35 are arranged, all of which are designed as knobs. A pickup selector switch 34 is realized here by a three-position changeover lever. Next you can see a vibration lever 36. The plate, which covers the area below the strings on the guitar body, acts as impact protection. On the neck 39 there is a fingerboard 40 and frets 38 and orientation inserts 37 on the fingerboard. At the end of the neck 39 is the collar 41 with the saddle 43 at the transition from the neck 39 to the collar 41 and on the collar, the tuning pegs 42 are arranged. On the guitar body, the string holder 44 is disposed in the rear area and below the strings 48, the pickups arranged here a treble pickup 45, a mid-layer pickup 46 and a bass pickup 47th These pickups can so far only with relative great effort and be replaced with the aid of tools. Often they are replaced by the front visible here, what the strings 48 must be relaxed, which of course subsequently requires a renewed cocking and tuning of the strings 48.

The present invention provides a guitar in which the pickups can be replaced in a few seconds and without tools. For this purpose, the guitar body 3 as shown in Figure 2 is provided with at least one continuous recess 2. In the example shown, the guitar body has three such continuous recesses 2. In the rear region of the guitar body 3, a touch screen 25 is detected here, which is sensitive and effects different circuits of the electronic circuit housed in the guitar body in different areas. Pressing on the touch screen 25 in the very rear end region 26 for 2-3 seconds, the bridge pickup is turned on, that is, the pickup 45 for the high notes first of the bridge or the string suspension. In the other, front end portion of the touch screen 25 is turned on by touching the local end portion 28 for 2-3 seconds, the neck pickup, that is, the pickup for the bass. Between these two end regions 26, 28 on the touchscreen 25, namely in the area 27, the pickups can be switched on and off steplessly. So you can drive with your finger from the back to the front on the touch screen 25 and then the high tones gradually steeper and weaker and the low tones increasingly removed from the strings. Conversely, when you move your finger from the front to the back, the low notes slowly get weaker and the high ones get stronger and stronger. Another function is implemented as follows: If you press in the forefront of the touch screen 25 with a finger, preferably the index finger berry on the screen and with another finger, preferably with the middle finger berry on the central region of the screen, so is the neck pickup immediately turned on and the bridge pickup switched off immediately. Pressing this way again on the touch screen 25, so immediately both pickups are active again, that is, the bridge pickup is switched on again. On the other hand, you press with one finger, preferably with the Forefinger berry, in the middle area on the touch screens and with another finger, preferably with the middle finger berry, on the rearmost area of the screen, the neck pickup is switched off immediately and the bridge pickup switched on at the same time. Pressing again in this constellation on the touch screen, the neck pickup is switched on again. At the edge of the guitar body 3, at the lowest point when the guitar hangs in play attitude on the shoulders of a player, you can still see the hole 59 for the output port of the guitar to be used. FIG. 3 shows a single pickup of a pickup. A bar magnet 49 is wrapped with copper wire 51 on a bobbin 50. Instead of using six individual pickups each with a coil, one takes six bar magnets 49 for reasons of saving material and also for reasons of space, in order to keep the angular space compact, and wraps around these together a single coil, whereby a cardboard or plastic holder prevents that the magnets and the coil can move against each other. As an alternative to individual bar magnets, it is also possible to use one or two bar magnets 52 as shown in FIG. 4, and to guide the magnetic field through ferromagnetic bars or, better, adjusting screws 53 through the coil, which is provided with a socket 54 for this purpose. The volume of the individual strings 22 can thereby be adjusted by positioning the respective pickup of the pickup belonging to the string more or less close to the string 22. In pickups with bar magnets 49 this is less comfortable and often possible only by means of a small hammer, with which one can move the bar magnets 49 by gentle strokes farther away from the strings 22. If the bar magnet 49 slipped too far down, you often have to remove the pickup so you can get to the other side.

So that a pickup can be used without tools and rapidly interchangeable in a precise fit in the space provided in the guitar body 3 recess 2, preferably a receiving frame 4 as shown in Figure 5 is inserted into the recess 2. On two opposite sides of the receiving frame 4 are here side holder 12 with the Allen screws 15 screwed. Under the side supports 23 15 compression springs 68 are installed around the screws. The side holders 12 are screwed onto the receiving frame 2 while compressing these compression springs 68. This side holder 12 form with their end cam 29 a precise fit for a fixing plate 14 on the pickup to be used. In the top of this side holder 12 two permanent magnets 13 are here used each, which hold the magnetic fixing plate 14 in the inserted state in the fit. The one side holder 12 has a recess 58, in which an element with the electrical contact points is still used, these contact points form each end of a dent in which spring-loaded pins fit the electrical outlets of the pickup to be used. By adjusting the screws 15 and more or less compression of the built-in compression springs 68, the position of the side holder 12 can be changed and thus also aufzusetzenden the pickup, as will become clear. In a variant of this frame can be made as a single injection-molded part of plastic, that is, the receiving frame 2 and the side directly sitting thereon holder 12, in which case the compression springs 68 omitted for changing the position of the side holder 12. In Figure 6, the fixing plate 14 and below the pickup 1 is shown with its base plate 8 in a crashed position. The height adjuster 18 consists of a brass threaded rod which is rotatably mounted with its thread 17 in the base plate 8 and on the end a rubber wheel 55 is screwed, which is easily rotatable with two fingers. The fixing screw 14 also has a receiving hole 19 for a vertically protruding from the base plate 8 guide pin 20, on which the fixing plate 14 is slipped with its receiving hole 19. By turning the rubber wheel 55 thus the fixing plate 14 relative to the base plate 8 can be finely adjusted in their distance from the same.

Figure 7 shows how this pickup element with its fixing plate 14 is inserted into the fit on the receiving frame 4. The fixing plate 14 is on its four corners formed in bulges 56, which fit exactly into the cams 29 on the side brackets 12 on the receiving frame 2. The four permanent magnets 13 in the side brackets 12 pull the ferromagnetic fixing plate 14 vigorously against them and thus keep them securely in the fit. By adjusting the screws 58, the pickup used can be more or less inclined in all directions. For example, the distance between its pickups to the strings for the low notes and the strings for the high notes can be set differently. In the case when the frame is designed as a plastic injection molded part, the fixing plate 14 to be placed on it can also be a plastic injection molded part fitting exactly to the frame, which then fits precisely into the frame between the end-side cams 29 and in this tight fit Permanent magnet 13 is held.

8 shows a guitar body 3 with two recesses 2 for the pickups 1 and a further recess 63 for receiving the electronic circuit 64 as well as the energy-supplying batteries 65. A lateral offset recess 66 serves to receive the operating Displays, a touch screen to be used 25. The visible along the edge of the guitar body screwed rubber wheels 57 serve as a holder for a aufzusetzende cover. In the front recess 2 you can see the neck pickup used, and in the rear recess 2 of the built-in receiving frame 4 with its side supports 12 is visible. For the installation of the receiving frame 4, a step is formed on the inner wall of the recesses, so that an all-round support surface is formed for the receiving frame 4, on which the receiving frame 4 can be glued, for example. In one of the side holder can be seen the electrical contact points 5, each forming a dent 24, and which contact points 5 are guided via a cable to the out-put port on the guitar body 3.

Figure 9 shows the pickup 1 by means of the thread 17 of its threaded bushing 16 screwed with the fixing plate 14 on its height adjuster 18. The coils, bobbins and pickups of the pickup 1 are housed here in a chromed metal housing 60 and boarded. On the fixing plate 14, directed in the direction against the pickup 1, are spring-loaded, off the fixing plate 14 protruding pins 23 arranged as electrical outlets 10 from the pickup 1. These pins 23 fit in the dents 24 at the contact points 5 of the side holder 12, for the safe closure of electrical connections. The pins 23 are wired via the cable 57 to the coils of the associated pickups of the pickup 1.

In Figure 10, the pickup 1 is shown with its chromed sheet metal housing 60 with respect to its base plate at a distance adjustable fixing plate 14 further inclined towards the viewer. In this illustration, one recognizes the six pickups 21 on the top of the pickup 1 and in Figure 11, the pickup 1 and its housing 60 is shown viewed from above. Therefore, one recognizes here the six pickups 21 and under the pickup 1, the fixing plate 14 with its four pins 23 for the electrical outlets 10 of the pickup 1 and its Tonabnehmererspulen. Finally, FIG. 12 shows an alternative pickup 1 with two rows of pickups 21.

Figure 13 shows a section of the back 6 of the guitar body 3 with two recesses 2 and next to the front recess 2 to be used pickup 1 with its pickups 21 on its upper side and its fixing plate 14 on its underside, which screwed on its height adjuster 18 is. The tool-free insertable pickup element is here on one side, so it is shown in perspective obliquely viewed from the side, with the top of the pickup 1 with the pickups 21 is visible. In the recesses 2 can be seen the receiving frame 4 with its side holders 12 and the contact points 5 with the dents formed by them. At the bottom, below the recesses 2 and the guitar body 3, the strings run 22nd

Figure 14 shows the detail of the back 6 of the guitars body 3 with the two recesses 2 and next to the front recess to be used pickup 1 in its fallen position with screwed on his height adjuster 18 fixing plate 14 and the rubber 55 at the end of Höhenverstellers 18 for rotating its brass thread and thus for adjusting the distance of the fixing plate 14 to the base plate 8 of the pickup 1. Das Cable 57 connects the Spulenabhänge with the spring-loaded pins 23 on the fixing plate 14, which protrude in the view shown from the fixing plate 14 downward. In Figure 15 shows how the pickup 1 is inserted from the back 6 of the guitar body 3 in the recess 2 on the guitar body 3, in which case, however, the receiving frame 4 and the fixing plate 14 is still missing. For this purpose, the pickup 1 is grasped with its thumb and forefinger on its height adjuster 18 and placed in the recess 2. If it is provided with the fixing plate 14 and the recess is equipped with the receiving frame 4, the fixing plate 14 is accurately positioned on the fit on the receiving frame 4 and firmly held by the permanent magnet 13 on the side brackets 12 in the fit. The spring-loaded pins 23 are automatically pressed on the fixing plate 14 on the dents provided 24 of the electrical contacts 5 on the side holder 12 and thus the secure electrical connection between the coils of the pickup and the output port 7 of the electric guitar is created.

FIG. 16 shows an alternative embodiment of the fixing plate 14 with a central threaded hole 16. In this fixing plate 14 permanent magnets 13 are installed on their side. FIG. 17 shows this fixing plate 14 according to FIG. 16 seen from the other side, and FIG. 18 shows the receiving frame 4 belonging to this fixing plate 14 with its upwardly projecting side walls 67. The fixing plate 14 can be inserted between these side walls 67 and then becomes held securely in position by the magnetic forces of the opposing permanent magnets 13. The slot 61 on the one side wall 67 of the receiving frame 4 serves to receive a plastic insert element, which has the electrical contact points 5 to the output port of the guitar. The electrical connections between the electrical outlets of the pickup on the fixing plate 14 with these contact points 5 on the side wall of the receiving frame 4 by means of pins 23, the heads of which protrude slightly laterally beyond the edge of the fixing plate 14. These pins 23 push in the Inserting the fixing plate 14 via the contact points 5 and create the electrical connection. However, a pickup can be removed at any time with sufficient force and tool-less quickly with its fixing plate 14 from the receiving frame 4. It takes hold of the height adjuster 18 and simply pulls it out of the receiving frame 4 and thus out of the recess 2.

Figure 19 shows a pickup 1 with height adjuster 18 and its adjusting thread shown seen from below, so in a crashed position, lying on the heads of his pickup 21. On the underside of the pickup 1 can be seen its base plate 8, while the coils, the bobbins and pickups are housed in a housing 60. From the coils, their electrical outlets lead via the cable 57 to the electrical contact points 10 on the pins 23 on the fixing plate 14. FIG. 20 shows the pickup 1 and its housing 60 lying in a dropped position on the pickups, and with the The same can be seen on the side permanent magnets 13 for holding on the side walls 67 of the receiving frame 4 of Figure 18, and the pins 23 with rounded heads, which are embedded in an insert element whose heads slightly project beyond the side wall of the fixing plate 14. FIG. 21 shows the four electrical outlets 10 from the coils of pickup 1, which are then connected to insulated pins 23 in this insert element. In Figure 22 shows a section of the guitar body 3 seen on its front side 9, with the recess 2 for a pickup, with the six strings extending over it. It can be seen from the receiving frame only one side wall 67 with the electrical contact points 5 with dents 24, which lead via an outgoing cable to the output port on the guitar body 3, and the permanent magnets 13 in this side wall 67. In Figure 23, the same recess is shown from the back 6 of the guitar body 3 forth. An aluminum carrier 62 leads over it to the stability of the guitar, in particular to the absorption of the string tension. The pickup element 1 is here straight from the back 6 of the Guitar body 3 ago used by being grasped at the fixing plate 14 and is inserted between the two side walls 67 on the receiving frame 4. The permanent magnets 13 on the fixing plate 14 and on the side walls 67 will soon be opposite each other and hold the fixing plate 14 in this position. FIG. 24 shows the situation when the pickup element 1 is fully inserted and the permanent magnets 13 on the fixing plate 14 are opposite those on the side walls 67 of the receiving frame 2.

Instead of a magnetic support of the pickup element, this can also be designed so that its fixing plate 14 clicks into the recess 2 purely mechanically in a catch, such as against a mechanical spring force, and that this spring force by pulling out the fixing plate 14 with sufficient force can be overcome, or that the lock can be released by pressing a button or pressing a slider or by turning a knob. The pickup element can also be held mechanically in the recess by being inserted against mechanical compression springs from the back of the guitar body ago in the recess and then pushed or pivoted on the back of a slide or a turntable on the fixing plate, after which Pickup element or its fixing plate 14 is secured in its fit.

With such a pickup element, which is inserted from the back 6 of the guitar body 3 in the manner shown in the recesses 2 therein, the replacement of the pickups 1 for the generation of different timbres and tonalities is very easy and also very fast. The patch on the back cover leaves the recesses 2 with the pickups used wisely. The practical tests showed that you only need 3 to 5 seconds to change a pickup 1. The pickup used in each case can also be adjusted by turning the rubber wheel 55 on the height adjuster 18 in its distance from the strings 22.

31 connection socket

32 tone controls

33 tone controls

34 pickup selector switch

35 volume controls

36 vibration lever

37 Orientation insert

38 fret

39 neck

40 fingerboard

41 collar

42 tuning pegs

43 saddle

44 string suspension

45 height pickups

46 center position pickups

47 bass pickups

48 strings

49 bar magnet

50 bobbins

51 winding / coil

52 bar magnet

53 Adjusting screw

54 socket for adjusting screw

55 Rubber wheel for height adjustment

56 Bulge at the corners of the fixation plate

57 cables from pickup coils to the pins on the fixing plate

58 recess for the contacts

59 hole for use output port

60 housing of the pickup

61 slot for insert element with electrical contacts

62 Steel carrier for absorption of the string tension

63 recess for electronic circuit 64 electronic circuit

65 batteries for electronic circuit

66 recess for receiving the touch screen

67 side walls on mounting frame 4

68 compression springs

Claims

claims

1 . Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a continuous recess (2) on the guitar body (3), characterized in that the pickup (1) from the back of the guitar body (3) forth in this recess (2) is used without tools and thereby close in its fit electrical contacts between its coils and terminals in the recess, which lead via a cable to the output port (7) on the guitar body (3), and that the pickup (1) in his fit without tools of Hand is releasably held.

2. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recess (2) on the guitar body (3) according to claim 1, characterized in that the pickup (1) in the fit of at least one permanent magnet (13) is held.

3. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recess (2) on the guitar body (3) according to claim 1, characterized in that the pickup (1) is held in the fit by a mechanical, spring-loaded latching.

4. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recess (2) on the guitar body (3) according to claim 1, characterized in that the pickup (1) in the fit through a partially on the recess (2) sliding mechanical Slider or a partially pivotable about the recess turntable is held.

5. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recess (2) on the guitar body (3) according to one of claims 1 to 2, characterized in that the pickup (1) in a receiving frame (4) can be installed, the electrical contact points (5), which lead via a cable to the output port (7) on the guitar body (3), and wherein the pickup (1) on its back a base plate (8) and with a fixing plate ( 14) with a variable distance to the base plate (8) of the pickup (1) mechanically and electrically connected to the pickup (1), and wherein said fixing plate (14) without tools from the back (9) of the guitar body (3) in the receiving frame (4) is inserted and then magnetically held therein, and also without tools from the receiving frame (4) can be removed, and wherein in the inserted state of the pickup (1) the electrical outlets (10) of each of its coils (11) via spring-loaded pins (23) on the fixing plate (14) each have an electrical contact with the contact points (5) on the receiving frame (4) close.

6. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recess (2) on the guitar body (3) according to one of claims 1, 2 or 5, characterized in that the receiving frame (4) on two opposite sides each have a side holder (12 ), and these side holders (12) form a mechanical fit for a magnetic fixing plate (14) and are equipped with permanent magnets (13) for holding the inserted magnetic fixing plate (14), and wherein the one side holder (12) electrical contact points (5) which are connected via a cable to the output port (7) on the guitar body (3), and the electrical outlets (10) of each of the coils (11) of the pickup (1) to spring-loaded pins ( 23) on the fixing plate (14) and these pins (23) each have an electrical contact with the contact points (5) on the side holder (12) of the receiving frame (4) close.

7. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recesses (2) on the guitar body (3) according to any one of claims 1, 2 or 5 to 6, characterized in that the receiving frame (4) on two opposite side each one with two screws (15) bolted side holder (12) encloses, so that in each case two of the screws (15), the side holder (12) in its end region prevail, and that this Side holder (12) form a mechanical fit for the magnetic fixing plate (14), and each side holder (12) is equipped with two permanent magnets (13), for holding the inserted magnetic fixing plate (14), and that one of the two side holder (12) is provided with electrical contact points (5) which are connected via a cable to the output port (7) on the guitar body (3), and the electrical outlets (10) of each of the coils (11) of the pickup (1) lead to spring-loaded pins (23) on the fixing plate (14) and these pins (23) in the inserted state of the pickup (1) each have an electrical contact with the contact points (5) on the side holder (12) of the receiving frame (4) close.

8. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recesses (2) on the guitar body (3) according to one of claims 1, 2 or 5 to 7, characterized in that the base plate (8) of the fixing plate (13) with variable Distance to the base plate (8) of the pickup (1) is connected to the same by the fixing plate (14) has a threaded bushing (16), by means of which it can be screwed via the thread (17) of the height adjuster (18) of the pickup (1) , and further that the fixing plate (14) has a guide pin (19) for receiving a guide pin (20) mounted perpendicularly to the base plate (8) such that upon rotation of the height adjuster (18) on the free side of the fixing plate (14 ) the distance between the Fixerplatte (14) and the base plate (8) and thus the pickup (1) is finely adjustable and thus the distance between the pickups (21) on the pickup (1) to the strings (22) of the electric guitar is variable.

9. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recesses (2) on the guitar body (3) according to any one of claims 1, 2 or 5 to 8, characterized in that electrical outlets (10) of the coils (11) of the pickup (1) on the fixing plate (14) make electrical contact with the contact points (5) on the receiving frame (4) by four fixedly spaced from her spring-loaded pins (23) are arranged on the fixing plate (14), which when placing the fixing plate (14) to the Fit receiving frame (4) or its side supports (12) into matching contact points (5), these contact points (5) each forming a dent (24) for receiving the pins (23).

10. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recess (2) on the guitar body (3) according to claim 1, characterized in that the frame is designed as a single injection-molded part made of plastic, that is the receiving frame (2). and the directly integrally seated thereon side holder (12), and to be placed on it fixing plate (14) is also a matching frame to the plastic injection molded part precisely in the

Frame between the end-side cam (29) fits and is held in this fit with permanent magnets (13).

11. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recess (2) on the guitar body (3) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guitar body (3) has two or three recesses (2) for inserting pickups (1 ), and on the front side (9) of the guitar body (3) a touch screen (25) is arranged, and that in or on the guitar body (3) an electronic circuit (64) is present, so by moving a finger on the touch screen ( 25) the individual pickups (1), that is the bridge pickup, if available, the center-position pickup and the neck pickup are infinitely more or less switched on or off.

12. Electric guitar with at least one pickup (1) in a recess (2) on the guitar body (3) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guitar body (3) has two or three recesses (2) for inserting pickups (1 ), and on the front side (9) of the guitar body (3) a touch screen (25) is arranged, and that in or on the guitar body (3) an electronic circuit (64) is present, so by simultaneously touching the touch screen (25) in the front area and in the middle of the neck pickup instantly turns on and off the bridge pickup at the same time, and when touched again in In this constellation, the bridge pickup switches back on, and vice versa, by simultaneously touching the touchscreen (25) in the middle and in the rear area, the bridge pickup switches on instantly and switches off the neck pickup at the same time, and if touched again in this constellation the neck pickup Switch on the pickup again.

13. pickup element for an electric guitar according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that there is a fixing plate (14) with threaded bushing (16) for the height adjuster (18) of the pickup (1) and a receiving hole (19) for the guide pin (20) on the base plate (8) of the pickup (1), wherein the fixing plate (14) on an associated receiving frame (4) for installation in a continuous Pickup- recess (2) on a guitar body (3) of the Rear side (6) is determined from, and forms a fit for this fixing plate (14), tool-free by hand and again from this receiving frame (2) is releasable.

14. Pickup element according to claim 13 for an electric guitar according to one of claims 1, 2 or 5 to 12, characterized in that there is a ferromagnetic fixing plate (14) with threaded bushing (16) for the height adjuster (18) of the pickup (1 ) and a locating hole (19) for a guide pin (20) on the base plate (8) of the pickup (1), the locating plate (14) having spring loaded pins (23) electrically connected to the coils of the pickup (1) are, and the pickup element further includes an associated receiving frame (4) with on this receiving frame (4) screwed side supports (12) which are equipped with two permanent magnets (13) and a fit for the ferromagnetic fixing plate (14) form, and that the pickup (1) with its ferromagnetic fixing plate (14) without tools by hand in this fitting seat and held therein magnetically while its spring-loaded pins (23) make electrical contact with the Close contact points (5) on the side holder (12), and that the fixing plate (14) with the pickup (1) can be loosened again from this fitting seat without tools.

15. pickup element according to one of claims 13 to 14 for an electric guitar according to one of claims 1, 2 or 5 to 12, characterized in that the two side holders (12) supported on the receiving frame (4) with compression springs (68) on the receiving frame (4) are screwed, so that by means of adjusting the screws (15) the position of the side holder (12) relative to the receiving frame (4) is adjustable and thus the inclination of the pickup (1) and thus the distances of its pickup (21 ) is adjustable to the different strings (22).