Weird pickups

This posting is semi-related to alternative tunings.

I have long since woundered how the actual MATERIAL of
a guitar effects the final and finished sound it produecs, and,
upon enquiry found, much to my delight, that it did, and
VERY MUCH SO.

For some strange reason, "they", ("they" being the cymbal makers),
still make the finest quality cymbals, and by this, I mean, the TIP-TOP
of the range, out of a bronze alloy, of which element percentages/proportions,
I am not sure.

I have very often woundered, if this "magic mixture" can be improved
upon, and as to how, adding trace amounts of other metals would effect the
sound...

I also wounder, if this is "callibratible", this I mean, is, if
we can take a pitch fork, or plate of standardized unit radius, shape,
thickness,
temperature, and change ONLY its compositional and annealing/tempering
propertys, to acess linearity/non-linearity of the sound produced.

Obviously, some metals will simply sound like a frog being tapped with a mallet,
(such as lead, and assumedly gold or even plutonium), but I must confess
that I do not know the epistemology and semantics pertaining to classification
and comparison of the acoustical propertys of substances,-and related
attack/decay/sustain/release, pitch, timbre, volume, sonograms produced
when bashed.

I could very easily imagine that thes relationships would be highly complicated
and non-linear.

I was looking through the acoustical engineers handbook/manual, and was
intrigued.

The sheer amount of microphones, and the INCREADIBLE difference that a tiny
change in their
position made to the recorded sound of, say, a cymbal.

I began, then to wounder, how having pickups on different positions on a
guitar would sound,
and how the effect of highly magnetised strings would make the sound sound,
well, different.

Supposedly, pickups could be arraged likeso:

x
x o x

x x
x o O o x
x x

x o x
x

This, of course, showing only three generations, but I'm sure that we could
go to five,
and have the possibility to alter each of the pickups sound somehow.

Now, what would the effect of a "rotateing pickup" sound like?

These could follow cycloidic pattern.

I am always open to new ideas, and I am very sorry that bart Hopkin
ever stopped EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

Anyway, I hope to hear from all of you, as to your thoughts on
this matter.

Sincerely,

Sarn Ursell.