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Originally Posted by andy_simpson  Well, I don't doubt that he'd probably never heard any recording of any note but still the physics of the point struck me as interesting, in that the pickup has no moving parts and therefore has no possibility of mechanical resonance (unlike the microphone), even if the sound of the wood/etc is lost. |
I've admittedly not heard a "pickuped" Sitar, but I wouldn't expect a lot from it. Where would one place it so it will accurately record the sound of both the playing strings and the resonance strings, which are at a certain distance from each other...
Daniel