...Schatten Design

Schatten Design prides itself on its truly unique and innovative approach to acoustic pickup design.
All of the pickups are the net result of Schatten Design's own original work and concepts and not from borrowed ideas.

And we, Schatten Design Europe, are proud to coordinate the distribution of these unique pickups in Europe.

Schatten Design gives you great sounding pickups that are intelligently designed and that reproduce the actual sound of your instrument - ´Better By Sound`

We kindly ask you for your appreciation, that we only supply our authorized dealers and instrument builders.
A list of authorized Dealers, Stores and Luthiers who carry and install Schatten Design Pickups can be found at "Dealers".

The home of Schatten Design: Kitchener/Ontario, in the middle of the "Golden Triangle" in Southern Ontario, Canada.

Les Schatten:

"We produce some of the world's finest piezo transducer pickups in a small workshop with just a handful of skilled pickup builders. Each pickup is carefully handcrafted to our exacting standards and each one is tested individually to make sure that it is as perfect as we can make it.

Our goal is to provide great sounding pickups. It is not easy or simple to build transducers that are 'transparent' in their sound quality.....pickups that allow the true sound of the instrument to come through.

 You will notice that all of our pickups are purpose built for each instrument. The only exceptions to this are the "Dualie" and the VVM series of pickups. The Dualie, originally designed for guitar soundboard use, it has proven to be a fabulous pickup for other instruments as well such as uke, dulcimer, prima, sitar, and kalimba.......to name just a few. The VVM was designed to operate properly on all three instruments: violin, viola and mandolin.

We promise that you will be more than satisfied with our pickups.

You have my word on that".

Les Schatten
Schatten Design Canada.