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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...
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7598444 |
Molded stringed instrument body with wooden core
A stringed musical instrument body is formed using injection molded high density polystyrene foam with a foaming agent. It is injection molded by itself or around a wooden core to make the body or...
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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...
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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...
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7579533 |
Head assembly for string instruments and method for manufacturing string instruments
A stringed instrument and a method of forming the stringed instrument are provided. The instrument includes a head assembly having individually and continuously adjustable nuts for varying the...
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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...
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7544872 |
Guitars
A guitar or guitar-like instrument includes a wooden neck and a body made of metal, the body being substantially hollow and having a plurality of holes therein. There are at least 10 holes in the...
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7531728 |
Electric guitar
Electric guitar with a neck and a body which has a first side wall, facing the guitar player, and a second side wall, facing away from the guitar player, said side walls delimiting a front and a...
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7518048 |
Neck and body attachments for stringed musical instruments
An improved system and method for connecting separate neck and body portions of a stringed musical instrument, preferably an electric guitar, are provided. The neck and body portions are connected...
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7514615 |
Stringed musical instrument having a hybrid arch-top and flat-top soundboard
Disclosed are a stringed musical instrument and related methods and apparatus. A longitudinal axis is situated along a length of the body of the stringed musical instrument. The body includes a...
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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...
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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...
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7507886 |
String instruments
A stringed instrument including an arm extending besides the strings from the body to the headstock such that said arm supports the tensions of the tuned strings, thereby eliminating the need for a...
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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...
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7507884 |
Textured sound generating panels having increased efficiency in converting vibrational energy to sound waves
I have discovered a way to improve the sound of musical instruments that utilize a soundboard or sound generating surface such as found in stringed musical instruments. I accomplished this by...
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7498497 |
Body structure of stringed instrument
A body structure of a stringed instrument is designed to reduce weight and to improve sound quality with respect to a solid body, which is constituted by a core material and a pair of decorative...
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7498495 |
Harp sound box construction and method
A soundbox ( 10 ) for a musical instrument including a panel ( 14 ) having an interior surface ( 22 ), two longitudinal edges ( 16 ) extending along the periphery of the panel ( 14 ), and upper (...
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7482518 |
High density sound enhancing components for stringed musical instruments
The present invention provides a system for producing vibratical unification of components of a musical instrument comprised of a soundboard, a plurality of strings, a bridge system, a neck, and a...
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7473831 |
Guitar with dual sound boards
A stringed musical instrument having a back, a side and a first sound board that form a sound box. The back, side and first sound board further define an enclosed resonant cavity within the sound...
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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...
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7462767 |
Stringed musical instrument tension balancer
A device and method for balancing the torque created by strings on musical instruments includes a bracket attached to the bottom of the bridge, an adjustable brace attached to the neck and residing...
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7449624 |
Ergonomic classical guitar
The sound box includes two truncated portions ( 1 and 4 ) for enabling the body to take up a better position in order to avoid certain pathologies induced by playing the instrument as it...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7394015 |
Pickup device for plucked string instrument and plucked string instrument
A pickup device ( 11 ) sandwiched between strings ( 3 ) and a top ( 4 ) of a body in a plucked string instrument comprises: a saddle ( 16 ) transmitting vibrations of the strings ( 3 ) to the body;...
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7385125 |
Electric string instruments and string instrument systems
Marching band string instruments and wearable string instruments are described that include a stiff waist band to prevent excessive side to side movement during use, while providing easy doff and...
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7375267 |
String instrument with a detachable neck
The present invention is directed to a guitar that has a detachable neck for ease of transport and storage. The body is attached to the neck in the preferred embodiment by means of a lever...
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7371949 |
Musical instrument having exchangeable components
A musical instrument having exchangeable components. The musical instrument may include a core portion providing a foundation for the musical instrument and a body portion removably attached to the...
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RE40207 |
Organic shell blank and method for making same
An organic shell inlay blank is provided including a first layer of organic shell matter having two opposed surfaces defining a first thickness therebetween rendering the first layer flexible, a...
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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...
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7301085 |
Stringed musical instrument having harmonic bridge
A stringed musical instrument is provided with a plate or soundboard that is curved to define a crest parallel to the strings. If the instrument is a closedbox instrument, another plate opposing...
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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...
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7282630 |
Soundboard for a musical instrument comprising nanostructured aluminum materials and aluminum materials with nanostructured composites
The present invention describes the use of nanophase materials, chiefly aluminum, in musical instrument construction. Nanophase materials have constituent grains that are substantially smaller than...
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7276868 |
Carbon-fiber laminate musical instrument sound board
A soundboard for a hollow-body stringed instrument made of layers of carbon-fiber and resin material surrounding a core of one or more layers of constant-thickness plywood, veneer (thinly sliced...
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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...
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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...
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7235728 |
Soundboard of composite fibre material construction for acoustic musical instruments
The invention relates to a soundboard of composite fibre material construction for acoustic musical instruments, comprising at least three sheets which each extend over a substantial part of the...
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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...
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7214866 |
Method for manufacturing musical instrument and a musical instrument
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a musical instrument, in which method a musical instrument is manufacturing for one or several parts and of which parts at least one part...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7166788 |
Stringed musical instrument
A family of stringed musical instruments has improved tonal quality. The top plate is cylindrically curved parallel to the strings, and the back plate is cylindrically curved along an axis...
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7151210 |
Solid body acoustic guitar
A guitar body is formed of a generally solid material having a cavity formed therein and substantially lacking a soundboard. A soundboard is formed of a generally planar material attached to the...
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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...
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7081574 |
Kit for applying surface indicia to a guitar body
A kit for customizing an instrument includes a template that has a shape of a guitar body and is provided with an opening for positioning a guitar neck therethrough. The template includes a bottom...
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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...
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7002065 |
Chassis for an electrical stringed musical instrument
A chassis for a stringed musical instrument such as a guitar is provided such that the chassis may be interchangeably connected with any one of a variety of necks resulting in a tunable and...
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6998524 |
Electric guitar
The invention concerns an electric guitar comprising a body ( 1 ), a neck ( 2 ) fixed to the body and a scroll ( 3 ) located at the free end of the neck ( 2 ). The body ( 1 ) consists of a base...
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