Abstract: In an elastic surface wave device comprising a piezoelectric substrate, a first transducer group, and a second transducer group or groups located on one or both sides of the first transducer group to exchange elastic surface waves with the first transducer group, the second transducer group comprises a plurality of transducers sharing the same elastic surface wave propagation path. The geometrical central positions of the individual transducers making up the second transducer group are located symmetrically about the geometrical central position (0--0') of the entire second transducer group, with each pair of such symmetrically located transducers incorporating the same number of pairs. The delay time, that is, the time taken by elastic surface waves propagating between the centers of every two adjoining transducers, excluding the two outermost transducers, is constant (.tau.).