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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer
ID: #4658
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Instruments
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An electric pickup is a type of sensor that translates the vibrations of stringed musical instruments—such as guitars, basses, or cellos—into an electrical signal. This signal is then fed into an amplifier in order to play the instrumental sounds through a loudspeaker at a higher volume. Although there are many types of pickups, two are most commonly used: magnetic and piezoelectric. Magnetic pickups are the kind normally found on modern electric guitars. Mounted on the guitar's solid body or neck, they have magnetized poles that create a field which capture the vibrations from the instrument's metal strings. Piezoelectric pickups, on the other hand, are used on instruments with non-metal strings. They are made from a mixture of metal and ceramic material which responds both to vibrations from the strings and resonance from the instrument's hollow body.
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