pickup
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transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments
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- Guitar pickups
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- sound
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Three magnetic pickups on a Peavey Raptor with the pickup configuration of a fat-strat (H-S-S). The bridge (right) pickup is a humbucker and the neck (left) and middle pickups are single-coils.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pickup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.