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Barbera Transducer Systems is a United States violin and guitar pickup manufacturer founded by Richard Barbera in 1986. Barbera Transducers pickups are notable for their multi-transducer design in which the entire bridge of the instrument is the pickup, with separate transducers for each string.

Pickups
Barbera Transducer Systems uses a new (patent-pending) design which has a piezo placed on every string. When installed, the pickup does not alter the instrument's un-amplified sound quality. The treble is well balanced and the overall sound is transparent, letting the true sound of the guitar come through.

Piezo elements come in the shape of ceramic discs, cylinders or a plastic film. They detect physical vibrations directly, sometimes placed in or on the body, or in some cases actual string vibrations directly, but more commonly general bridge vibrations are sensed. Some piezo setups have a separate pickup (or two, or even four in the case of some Barbera Transducer Systems pickups) within the bridge under each string.

Barbera Transducer Systems produces pickups for acoustic guitar, violin, and electric violin.