Kinman Guitar Electrix

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Kinman Guitar Electrix is a small boutique Australian company that specializes in the design and manufacture of hi-tech innovative NoNoise pickups that solve noise problems as well as a line of No Soldering harness for electric guitar. One of its most acclaimed products is the Kinman Hx pickup, a patented noiseless pickup design developed in 1996 by its inventor, Chris Kinman, as a direct drop-in replacement for Fender Stratocaster style single coil pickups. Most of the models in the Kinman line carry the designation AVn, an initialism for Authentic Vintage noiseless. Hx is an initialism for Hum cancelling. According to Chris Kinman, Kinman Guitar Electrix was founded on a forward thinking principle and flourishes on technical challenges.

Kinman also invented a different technology in 1998 specifically to suit Telecaster guitars. That technology is centered around a revolutionary laminated steel H bobbin that functions as a noise sensing coil. It is made of 150 separate pieces of steel and is a world first in guitar pickups. Kinman claims his H-core performs over 200% more efficiently than an equivalent conventional noise sensing bobbin and therefore minimizes the noise sensing coil so it has virtually no impact in the sonic signature of the pickup.

More recently Kinman has developed a series of revolutionary NoSoldering Harness for Strats and Teles that makes it easy for guitar players who have no soldering equipment or skills to install Kinman pickups into their own guitar. The more versatile K9 Harness for Strats and Teles feature clever and unobtrusive switching system that facilitates 9 different but useful and distinctive sounds from the 3 pickups, all 9 combinations are no-noise.

1 Patents
2 Notable users of Kinman pickups
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Patents

Chris Kinman has been awarded the following US patents:

USA Patent Number 5,668,520 issued 1997
USA Patent Number 5,834,999 issued 1998
USA Patent Number 6,103,966 issued 2000
USA Patent Number 29/240,940 issued 2006
USA Patent Number 7,022,909 issued 2006

[edit] Notable users of Kinman pickups

Players who use Kinman AVn pickups include^[1]:

Hank Marvin (The Shadows); FV-HMS set
Scott Henderson; AVn-56 Mk-II x 3
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd); Woodstock Regular set
Prince; (unknown Strat models)
Bonnie Raitt; Blues set
Gary Moore; AVn-Blues
Guthrie Govan (ASIA); Blues set
Jan Akkerman; AVn-62
David Crosby; (CSNY)
David Rhodes (Peter Gabriel)
Mick Box (Uriah Heep); Blues set
Peter Tork (The Monkees); Blues set
Dave Stewart; (Eurythmics)
Anthony Drennan (The Corrs & Genesis); Traditional set, Blues set, Broadcaster set
Jackson Browne; Hank Marvin CV-HMS set
John Farrar, (ex Shadows, ex Strangers)
Terje Rypdal, Blues set