Imagine a guitar with both magnetic and PARADIS POLYPHONIC PIEZO PICKUP and active electronics. A new brilliant near acoustic sound can come out of its jack output. Now, there is a space in the guitar body, where a module can be plugged in: The POLYMODULE, that allows to connect this simple instrument to any of the existing and future guitar synthesizer or polyphonic system!

A Customer buys a standard guitar with a new piezo sound - for little more money and without any complication.

Sooner or later, he will want to profit from the polyphonic construction of his new pickup, connect a guitar synth, avoid the battery - or simply wonder, what the blind plate next to the jack socket is good for. Then he has a choice of POLYMODULES for around $100. Each one of them allows the connection to a guitar Synthesizer or polyphonic effect or simply to a power supply. Future systems could immediately appear on the market with their POLYMODULE, so the buyer does not need to buy a new guitar or fix the problem with gaffa tape - thus the market for such systems becomes big! The following POLYMODULES we can easlily offer to start the idea:

• ROLAND 13 pin DIN
• SHADOW stereo jack
• PHOTON 15pin SUB-D
• PARADIS 8pin Neutricon

Needless to say that such guitars will be bought not only for the piezo sound, but also for the option of connecting them to guitar synthesizers without having to modify the guitar and without the troubles with the exact positions of a magnetic or optical polyphonic pickup. Its a true and strong selling argument (at a low cost) for the guitars as well as the mentioned electronic manufacturers!

Once a new polyphonic guitar connection standard will be established (hopefully a worldwide one, this time!), obviously a POLYMODULE to this standard will become available for the guitars that are already on the market - thus the standard will be introduced softly and quickly.

Matthias Grob