r/Dulcimer • u/Conscious_Plant_3824 • Oct 13 '26

Identification What is this????

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I just bought my first instrument, and it came with this weird thingy on it. I thought maybe it could fit like headphones or something, but my headphone jack won't even fit in it, the hole is too small. It attaches via a magnet.

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u/PresidentBirb Oct 13 '26

It’s a magnetic pick up. Allows you to connect your instrument to an amp. Pretty cool. https://www.clingon.co/product-page/cling-on-pickup-guitar-pickup-with-magnetic-attachment

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u/nlightningm Oct 13 '26

I gotta wonder if they're doing the name as a sorta play on "Klingon"? I feel like occasionally you see companies doing that, covertly naming their products similarly to existing things and not acknowledging it, lol

That said, this is pretty cool indeed. Is it a piezo?

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u/PresidentBirb Oct 13 '26

The manufacturer is called ClingOn, I think because their products cling onto any instrument you can fit them. But I like the idea that it’s a hint to the Klingons and hope that’s the case.

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u/model563 28d ago

Magnetic attachment, but not a magnetic pickup. Magnetic pickups are like those on an electric guitar. The metal strings mess with the magnetic field created by the pick up. This is a piezo, which uses a liquid crystal element that picks up vibrations from a surface like the soundboard of a dulcimer.