Aluminium Bacofoil Pickup tester

Here's a quick sketch, I just double checked and the opposite magnet may actually be south,as it attracts to the opposite one rather than repels.The earth field from the aluminium makes it all work somehow!The electric buzzer on it's own, detatched would only gets one string, this system get all strings. Disconnect the earth and it stops working.Strange but true.... can anyone explain?
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  • i'm enjoying this,  :)

  • Hmm, home-brewed Alumitone ... Nobody knows why they work, it's just magic :-)

  • As Clockwork say,s ....and...then you go bald..

  •    Oh dear! I fear that you may be on the brink of inadvertently (I assume inadvertence) unleashing

       malefic aetheric forces! Be careful, else you shall doom us all!

  • WHAT!

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