From: L. Van Warren [van@wdv.com]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 10:07 PM
To: 'kersting_steven@hotmail.com'
Cc: 'skgs@comcast.net'
Subject: the piano sanity project

Dear Steven –



Your site is absolutely awesome.
You answered every question I had on winding pickups.



Quick Aside: My first experience in this area was at age 14 in 1970 when I replaced,

The middle pickup of my 68 fender stratocaster with a humbucker,
given to me by Steve Birchfield when he replaced those on his Gibson ES355. 

That middle pickup sounded good probably cause his vibe was in them..

If you ever see a white 68 strat with a humbucker as the middle pickup, it’s mine!



Ok, cut to the chase:

I want to put a magnetic pickup single coil of the strat variety under
every string of a piano for some acoustic experiments.

Trouble is the spacing is wrong for adapting a guitar pickup to a piano,

So I want to wind 88 individual pickups, changing them just enough to fit,
wire them in parallel and hope that I don’t blow my amp out!



Rather than have tone circuits and volume pots,
I want to set the pickups height and just do the rest externally.



Can you provide a quote on:

1)       100 pole pieces (alnico5)

2)      100 round bobbin for each pickup

3)      the winding wire + 10% extra

4)      just a little of your special voodoo like I need to vary the impedance by piano string thickness



I would really appreciate it. I spend most of my time working on cancer,

And this diversion is really needed to keep my head clear.



Cheers,



- Van



L. Van Warren 
Producer
CellWorld

501-224-7434 home office

501-231-5426 cell
www.wdv.com