Abstract: The present invention is a rigid, solid bodied stringed instrument having an electrical pickup embedded in at least one predetermined position within the stringed instruments solid body to pick up the actual wood tones and resonance of the rigid solid body. The electrical pickup is comprised of a piezoelectric transducer embedded between a planar brass surface and a planar ceramic surface. In the preferred embodiment, the pickup transducer is circular in shape and embedded within the stringed instrument's solid body adjacent the strings which span the body. The embedded piezoelectric transducer requires a fraction of the area required by traditional electric coil pickups. In an alternate preferred embodiment, the pickup transducer is embedded within a transducer housing. The housing is then embedded within the solid body of a stringed instrument adjacent the strings.