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​ ** How Does a Guitar Pickup work? ** A guitar pickup is made up of a coil wire (bobbin), a magnet, and a pole (pole piece) that runs through the coil of wire. A coil of wire and pole piece is placed under each string of the guitar. There can be an individual magnet for each pole piece or just one large magnet. Electric guitar strings are made out of metal the highest strings are only a single strand of metal the lower strings are actually several strands wound together. When you hit a guitar string it starts to vibrate creating a sound wave. The vibrations create a flux (lines of force) in the magnet’s field this flux produces an AC. This current is sent to the amplifier and enlarged. Epiphone DOT Guitar pickup

The First electric guitars were actually acoustic guitars with a pick up** [] [] "The Complete Guitarist" by Richard Chapman Copyright 1993Dorling Kinderesly LTD, London
 * Facts: **
 * Guitar amplification first started in the 1930s **
 * The guitar’s volume knob doesn’t actually enlarge the pickups signal it only decreases it **
 * The guitar’s signal is only increased when it is in the amplifier