{"id":289,"date":"2006-07-16T16:28:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T21:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2006-07-16T16:33:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-16T21:33:05","slug":"need-a-pick-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/16\/need-a-pick-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a Pick-up?……."},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not one with four wheels or a health drink – an acoustic guitar pick-up…….. I was ready to lay down some acoustic guitar tracks for the song I wrote, but didn’t want to use a mike because the old living room is not soundproofed from the noisy neighborhood and with 100+ temps, I wasn’t looking forward to recording with the A\/C off……. So, I was going through all my musical paraphernalia looking for my “Buffalo”<\/strong> pick-up I purchased in the ’70’s that you just stick-on near the sound hole with some poster putty…… I didn’t find it, but I ran across the old DeArmond<\/strong> pick-up my dad used on his Martin<\/strong> guitar in the ’40’s…… I thought what the hell, I’ll try it…… It works great and there’s not even any noise in the volume knob like you get with new stuff that is only a few years old…… Not bad for a piece of equipment that’s over 60 years old!…… Here’s a pic of what it looks like in my 00-15 Martin<\/strong>….. It’s the RHC model with the integral volume controller<\/strong>…… This is what every guitar player used to amplify their guitars before Leo Fender came out with his revolutionary “Broadcaster”<\/strong> electric guitar in 1948…….
\nMartin Guitar
\nHere’s a little history on Harry DeArmond:<\/strong>
\nHarry DeArmond<\/strong> (born January 28 1906, died October 12 1999) invented the first commercially available attachable guitar pickup in the mid 1930s. He established a working relationship with Harold ‘Bud’ Rowe’s<\/strong> company to manufacture and develop these items. The company was located in a former schoolhouse at 1702 Wayne Street in Toledo, Ohio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Initially there were two models for flat-top guitars<\/strong> (the RH and the RHC which incorporated an integral volume controller<\/strong>) and two for archtop guitars (the FH and FHC with a volume controller). Both types of pickup, initially called “guitar mikes”<\/strong>, were passive electromagnetic, employing the same wide shallow coil shape with individual Alnico 2 pole-pieces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, not one with four wheels or a health drink – an acoustic guitar pick-up…….. I was ready to lay down some acoustic guitar tracks for the song I wrote, but didn’t want to use a mike because the old living room is not soundproofed from the noisy neighborhood and with 100+ temps, I wasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}