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Re: Old Pick up mics

Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2015-12-15 16:14

Gretna,

I have been a working jazz musician for a long time. Many years ago I had a pickup (can't remember the name but I'll check my equipment archives) on a clarinet barrel, one on a flute head joint, and another on my old Selmer Balanced Action tenor. What was I thinking of!

You had to drill into the instrument and solder in the port on the sax and flute; glue the device into the clarinet barrel. One little mic snapped onto the port in each instrument and there was a control box that then plugged into any amp. I think King was selling them.

Selmer had a Varitone system; a pickup was on the neck and you had a control box on the instrument. Here is a neat demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQE56FVNqgs

But this was the early 1970s. Pretty wild stuff for the day.

HRL

Post Edited (2015-12-15 16:26)

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