An instrument pickup that features discrete outputs for each string. Typically, divided pickups are used for driving pitch-to-MIDI converters, so that each string can be detected, converted to MIDI, and routed independently, but there are other applications as well, such as multi-channel audio output from a single instrument. See also “hex pickup.”
Divided Pickup
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