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7612271 Tubular bracing for a musical instrument  
A tubular bracing assembly for a string instrument and the resulting string instrument. Resin reinforced fibers are shaped into the form of a tubular structure. The tubular structure decreases the...
7605318 Gyro-JIG apparatus for repairing a stringed musical instrument  
An improved method and apparatus for safely and securely holding and manipulating a musical instrument for construction or repair, the apparatus for which consists of a base, a pedestal upstanding...
7586029 Guitar and strap for playing in a standing configuration  
A guitar and strap address the shortcomings of convention guitar design and strap design such that the guitar may be suspended from the strap with a front plane of the guitar oriented generally...
7579535 Folding electronic instrument  
A portable electronic stringed instrument is disclosed. The folding instrument includes a neck portion and a body portion and a connection portion for connecting the neck portion to the body...
7579534 Ported bevel for musical instrument and method for making the same  
In a musical instrument, such as a flat top guitar, having a sound chamber defined by a back, sides, and a soundboard, a beveled portion is generally placed in the bass side of the lower bout of...
7579532 String musical instrument  
A stringed musical instrument which includes a main instrument body, a fretted neck affixed to said instrument body, a headstock affixed to said fretted neck, a fifth string having a gauge of 0.060...
7554023 String mounting system  
A string mounting system for a stringed musical instrument ( 10 ), comprising a helical tension spring ( 22 a - f ) connected in series with each string ( 14 a - f ), each string ( 14 a - f ) being...
7550660 Stringed instrument construction  
An improved hollow-bodied stringed instrument body having a substantially free edge in the lower bout which reduces the coupling of the resonances of the front plate, back plate, and enclosed...
7514614 Electro-acoustic guitar  
The present invention teaches an electro-acoustic guitar having an isolated resonant soundboard with or without an integrated transducer attached to the soundboard. The soundboard/transducer...
7511207 Twelve piece soundboard for stringed musical instruments  
A new sound board construction for the stringed musical instrument is provided. The sound board comprises 12 wedge shaped, flat wooden pieces joined at the center and along the edges between...
7507885 Structure for musical instrument body  
A structure for a musical instrument body that limits vibration of various components or parts of the body while controlling and providing for overall resonance of the instrument. The structure is...
7488880 String dampener for a stringed musical instrument  
A string dampener for a musical instrument is disclosed for dampening extraneous string noise caused by sympathetic vibrations. The dampener includes an attachment apparatus that releaseably...
7465859 Headblock and fingerboard support  
A headblock and fingerboard support assembly for a stringed instrument includes a fingerboard support assembly for mounting to a neck and fingerboard of the stringed instrument. The fingerboard...
7465858 Stringed musical instrument  
A stringed musical instrument, such as a guitar, having a body with a neck secured to the body and over which are laterally stretched substantially parallel strings, which strings are stretched...
7446247 Suspended bracing system for acoustic musical instruments  
A suspended bracing system is disclosed that allows the sound board of an acoustic instrument, such as a guitar, to vibrate more. As a result, the instrument projects more tone and volume than that...
7442865 Interchangable and modular acoustic and electric guitar apparatus  
A musical instrument apparatus has the ability to interchange from acoustic to electric string instrument embodiments; both the acoustic and electric string embodiments share a common hollow...
7439427 Guitar body reinforcement  
A support for a body of a stringed instrument includes a brace structure having a plurality of legs radially disposed about a central body. The brace structure has a substantially flat first...
7420107 Molded laminate for musical instrument and method of manufacturing molded laminate musical instrument  
A musical instrument, such as an electric or bass guitar, is formed of a lamination of wood layers having differing grain orientations in adjacent layers, the grain orientations defining a crossing...
7411121 String energy transference for stringed musical instruments  
A guitar or applicable musical instrument is improved to enhance string energy through integration of side materials and structural spanners to maintain the integrity of the instrument under load...
7402746 Training apparatus for learning to play the guitar  
A training apparatus for guiding and independently teaching a user to quickly play a guitar by interpreting stored encoded MIDI music data to guide the user's hands by illuminating sequences of...
7358429 Magnetized frets for a stringed musical instrument  
The present invention is concerned with providing a fret for a stringed musical instrument having strings containing ferromagnetic material, wherein the fret is arranged to be magnetic. Having a...
7355110 Stringed musical instrument having a built in hand-held type computer  
An apparatus and method is disclosed for storing, editing, deleting and visually displaying personal information within a stringed musical instrument. A hand-held type computer ( 34 ) located in...
7351894 Guitar string retainer guide  
A stringed instrument including a body having a front surface and a rear surface, a tuning mechanism, a neck having one end joined to the body and an opposite end retaining the tuning mechanism,...
RE40097 Guitar or similar musical instrument comprising a detachable body support  
Musical instrument including a removable guitar body having a front side arranged to bear at least one string, a frame-shaped body support comprising a plurality of supporting elements, and at...
7326838 Adjustable guitar neck member  
An adjustable neck member is disclosed having a distal end and a mounting end configured to be coupled to a stringed instrument body. An enclosed channel extending within the neck member from a...
7288706 Stringed musical instrument with multiple bridge-soundboard units  
A stringed musical instrument having multiple bridge-soundboard units, each unit substantially acoustically independent from other bridge-soundboard units. Said bridge soundboard units are coupled...
7285709 Modular automated assistive guitar  
A modular automated assistive guitar is described comprising a base assembly, a pick assembly, a strumming mechanism and a fretting mechanism which, in combination with a standard guitar or similar...
7268291 Stringed instrument  
A string instrument, such as a guitar, includes a sound box with saddle, a neck with tuning pegs and strings extended under tension between the saddle and the tuning pegs, providing a bridge of...
7262359 Digital recording device for electric guitars and the like  
A digital recording device includes a housing that is engageable with a lower curvature of a guitar's frame. The housing includes an arcuate inner surface, an arcuate outer surface coextensively...
7259308 Acoustic guitar resonator  
A resonator assembly includes a resonator, a collector-amplifier, as well as a timbre tray, one or more timbre pieces, and a detector holder. The resonator assembly, designed to be attachable to a...
7256343 Interchangable pre amp module for an electronic string instrument  
An interchangeable modular insert for a electric stringed instrument is mounted in a cavity cut into the rear of the instrument. The rear insertion module provides rapid exchange of electronic...
7230174 Guitar and violin hybrid instrument  
A guitar and violin hybrid instrument ( 10 ) comprising either a solid or hollow body ( 12 ). The body ( 12 ) has an upper surface ( 14 ), a lower surface ( 16 ), an upper end ( 18 ), a lower end (...
7227067 Tarpin, a string musical instrument  
A string musical instrument having a body with a hole in the center for sound resonance, an upper bridge at the top and a lower bridge at the bottom. There is a plurality of long frets connected...
7211719 Stringed instrument  
A stringed instrument, such as a guitar, includes an ergonomically configured body with a fret board extending therefrom. The body is configured with a S or Z-shaped cross-sectional ration...
7208664 Acoustic stringed instrument with improved cutaway and neck-body joint  
An acoustic stringed instrument includes a multi-tiered neck-body joint that removably secures the neck to the body, provides a superior structural and acoustical coupling and enables an expanded...
7183474 Adjustable sounding board for acoustical stringed instruments  
A tension adjustable upper sound board for an acoustical stringed musical instrument.
7183473 Ergonomic stringed instrument and ergonomic roundback guitar  
An ergonomic stringed instrument is described, presenting a novel ergonomic design incorporating one or more of an angled waist, provided as part of the waist portion of the stringed instrument...
7169991 Guitar  
An acoustical guitar characterized by a relieved formation in a side edge and adjacent back portion of the guitar, the relieved portion being shaped to provide space for the breast of an...
7145063 Top pickup for musical stringed instruments  
A musical stringed instrument having a top pickup for producing variable tones and pitches. The top pickup is mounted on top of the strings. Present pickups are all mounted beneath the strings. The...
7141730 Method of producing electric guitar body  
Present invention teaches a method of producing electric guitar body without the costly and time-consuming process of wood-carving or other traditional woodworking technique. By creating the molds...
7115803 Stringed instrument  
A stringed instrument includes an elongated supporter 4 , which is disposed in a sound box 1 so as to have both ends fixed to a side plate 1 b of the sound box 1 , and a vibration absorber 5...
7102073 Guitar combo  
A combination stringed musical instrument for providing different stringed instruments on a common housing. The instrument includes a housing, neck portion, head portion, first plurality of string...
7084336 User-adjustable ergonomic stringed musical instrument  
The apparatus is a user-adjustable stringed musical instrument. A rotary joint mechanism connects an acoustic body to a movable string support assembly. The movable string support assembly is...
7081575 Musical instrument with detachable neck  
A stringed musical instrument, such as a guitar or a bass, has a body portion and a second portion, such as a neck, adapted to be attached to the body portion. The musical instrument further has a...
7060881 Methods for manufacturing frets for stringed instruments  
Frets can be provided for stringed instruments without requiring a process for scraping both ends of a fret main body after the frets are installed into a fingerboard of a stringed instrument. Both...
7041889 Guitar-like musical instrument with a neck-body connecting assembly  
A guitar-like musical instrument has a body and a neck and a neck-body connecting assembly. The body has a sidewall. The neck has a distal end and a proximal end. The neck-body connecting assembly...
6992243 Stringed instrument with tonal control  
A stringed instrument including a body having a top surface defining a picking area; a bridge supported by the top surface at one end of the picking area; a neck extending from the body at an...
6979766 Stringed instrument neck part variable deformation correcting device  
A distortion correcting device is accommodated at a concave portion of the neck of a stringed instrument, and includes a bar including a bottom plate portion and a pair of opposing side plate...
6933428 Acoustic device  
Acoustic devices, particularly musical instruments, having a soundboard formed from expanded polycarbonate, methods of manufacture of same, and the use of specific soundboards in the manufacture of...
6897366 Neck connection for stringed musical instrument  
A stringed musical instrument having, a body portion and a neck connected thereto. The neck connection utilizes a neck block which has an angled surface into which connection bolts are inserted to...
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