NinJA Pickup In 1978 I worked in Hollywood at one of the worlds most famous rehearsal halls. Studio Instrumental Rentals started back in the sixties by Ken Berry and Dolf Remp. It has been the practice home of such stars as: Bette Midler, Tom Petty, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Smokie Robinson, Lou Rawls, Rick Nelson, REO Speedwagon, Kiss, Bob Seiger, Jan & Dean, Stanley Clark, Jeff Beck, Motley Crew, Van Halen, Ringo Star, Led Zeppelin, Carla Bonoff, James Taylor, The Cars, Cher, The Allman Brothers, Carol King, Michael Jackson, Melissa Manchester, I could go on and on these are just a few. In the summer of that year I met a man called Norman . He asked me if I could help him promote a new guitar pickup that he had invented, I told him I would because I was in contact with a lot of players every day. This is just the start of the story. What this pickup can do no other guitar in the world can do. If you hit a string in one direction, the signal is sent to channel #1. Hitting the same string in the other direction sends the signal to channel #2. Bending a string pans the signal from channel #1 to channel #2. I believe this is the first conceptual change in the electric guitar since its invention. R.L. Sariti 2006 310.455.7624 |