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Comment by Bill Raddatz on March 17, 2014 at 6:21am

Hi Sammy, Thanks for your question and nice comment. The Flatpup 4 (meaning flat pick up) is a humbucker type of electric guitar pickup hand-made by a man in Vienna, Austria., by the name of Elmar Zeilhofer. It is the copper-colored rectangle glued to the top of my canjo. Most conventional humbuckers are much thicker and require a hole cut into the instrument's surface to mount under the strings, while Elmar's flatpups are only 4mm thick and are easy to attach using glue, or a few small screws if you purchase one in a frame. Humbuckers are a type of electric guitar pickup that use two coils to cancel out the electrical interference commonly picked up by single coil pickups, and being magnetic, they capture mechanical vibrations of steel strings and convert them to an electrical signal that is then amplified or recorded.

For more about Elmar and his flatpups, go to his page here on Cigar Box Nation at:

www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/ElmarZeilhofer

 

Comment by Sammy Lloyd on March 17, 2014 at 5:40am

Sorry, but I'm a real novice, but wanting to improve my knowledge so that someday I can make something like this. What is a Flatpub4 U Elmar Zeilhofer. Guessing it's something to do with the electrics?

Looks brilliant by the way. Cheers Sammy