The aim of the R&D cooperation project is to develop polymer-based piezoelectric musical strings, to produce a customised two-stage multi-channel preamplifier module and to realise the exemplary integration in an instrument. Piezoelectric musical strings are a new development by the co-operation partners and represent a ground-breaking technological development for stringed instruments, as they have unique sound characteristics and make conventional pickups superfluous.
This makes it possible to design completely new types of electro-acoustic string instruments as well as non-invasive miking of classical instruments. The project partners are Bernd Kürschner Musiksaiten in Taunusstein and the Bauhaus University Weimar. The technology partner is the Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research in Rudolstadt (TITK).