I have an idea about making an accoustic instrument pickup using the
>element of a turntable cartridge. The idea is that I rip the element out
>of the cartridge somehow, without damaging it, somehow wire it up so that
>it responds to vibrations as it should, then wire it to guitar jack so it
>can plugged into an amplifier. I should then have a pickup small enought
>to be drilled into the bridge of a mandolin or fiddle.
>
>Any thoughts on this idea?
can be done but why? ... there a lot of cheap guitar kind a pickups to use... (I made time ago from cristal phono head a driver & pickup for homemade spring reverberation system - 20y ago - still have it)