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8173881 Musical instrument utilizing illuminated position markers as status indicators  
A stringed musical instrument has a sound chamber and a neck attached to the sound chamber. A fingerboard is attached along the neck. The musical instrument has an electronic device such as a...
8153874 Stringed musical instrument convertible between fretted and fretless playing configurations  
A stringed musical instrument that is convertible between fretted and fretless playing configurations includes a body, a neck connected to the body at one of its ends, a fingerboard disposed on the...
8110729 Pyrolytic carbon components for stringed instruments  
Pyrocarbon components have been found to create richer, clearer sound when employed as bridges (19), saddles (1), nuts (2), frets (3), tuning heads (4), pegs (9) and other components which contact...
RE43075 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...
8053053 Flexible shell inlay strips and method of manufacturing the same  
A shell purfling strip has sufficient flexibility to be placed within a curved configuration. The purfling strips are sufficiently flexible to be placed, as a single unit, in curved channels which...
7795517 Pythagorean fret placement  
The method provides luthiers of fretted instrument with a novel approach for installing frets with increased accuracy. The method is an improvement in calculation of fret placement over the “Rule o...
7763786 Unitary fingerboard and method of making same  
A stringed musical instrument has a head assembly, a tail, and an elongate neck extending from the head assembly to the tail. The neck defines a fingerboard having a surface layer and a substrate....
7732687 Stringed instrument fretboard for use with light-system  
A fingerboard (or fretboard) for use with a stringed instrument and light-system is disclosed and has a bottom surface adapted to mate or be attached to a neck of the instrument, and has wells...
7728209 Stringed instrument wireless communication device and method of use  
A stringed instrument wireless communication device includes a wireless communication device housing including a front; graphical elements on the front corresponding to data to be input into the...
7728210 Device for string instruments  
A device for string instruments comprising a fretboard with a plurality of frets, arranged at a distance from each other along the lengthwise direction of the fretboard and running transversely...
7714218 String instrument frets and associated fret optical apparatus  
An instrument comprising a body, a neck and a plurality of strings. The neck comprises a first end having a headstock, a fretboard, at least one mineral fret coupled to the fretboard, and a second...
7692080 Fret wire with bending notches  
The invention is a novel fret wire for use on the fingerboards of stringed instruments. The fret wire has a crown of any usable shape for contact with strings, as usual, but is distinguished by the...
7645926 Fiddolin  
A stringed musical instrument combination of at least two traditional stringed musical instruments or of nontraditional stringed musical instruments or a mix of traditional and nontraditional. The...
7507888 Fret and fingerboard for stringed instruments  
A fret and fret board assembly for a stringed instrument provide increased fret stability and serve to increase the duration of fretted notes played on the instrument. Each fret includes a...
7491875 Fret dressing mask  
The problem caused by the time consuming and potentially damaging process of applying a standard masking to the neck of a stringed instrument is solved by providing a strip of polymer material...
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...
7427704 Stringed instrument fingering guide  
A finger guide plate includes a fret plate; a circuit board coupled to a bottom of the fret plate; and a support plate including fret relief notches coupled to a bottom of the circuit board. A...
7427707 Stringed musical instrument neck assemblies  
Described herein are fingerboards and neck assemblies for use with stringed musical instruments. The neck assembly can include a light-system disposed therein. The light system has a light matrix...
7423208 Stringed instrument and associated fret mapping method  
A stringed instrument and associated fret mapping method. The instrument includes a neck having a fret board provided with a plurality of frets having offset string contact regions along their...
7408105 Instrument training device for stringed instruments  
An instrument training device for use with a stringed instrument includes a plurality of training members. Each training member is constructed of a flexible material and includes opposed ends. Each...
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...
7381878 Musical instrument display  
A visual display mounted on a musical instrument for use as a teaching aid, for teaching fingerings and chords, a performing aid for displaying information relevant to a user's performance, and a...
7368646 Stringed musical instrument  
A stringed musical instrument includes a string which, when vibrated, produces sound. Both ends of the vibrating portion of the string touch glass.
7285708 System of stringed musical instruments with substitutable fingerboards  
A stringed musical instrument having an elongate neck and a body which may have a resonant cavity at one end and a head at the other end thereof. Strings extend across the neck and, when vibrated,...
7238875 Electronic musical instrument  
There is provided an electronic musical instrument which is capable of muting by a simple operation. A plurality of fret operating elements are provided on a fingerboard, for determining the pitch....
7173175 Stringed instrument fingerboard for use with a light-system  
A fingerboard (or fretboard) for use with a stringed instrument and light-system is disclosed and has a bottom surface adapted to mate or be attached to a neck of the instrument, and has wells...
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...
7012180 Apparatus and method for adjusting stringed musical instruments for fretted and unfretted play  
An apparatus and method for extending and retracting frets of stringed musical instruments such as a guitar or bass guitar. Each of a plurality of frets is an integral part of a fret-cylinder...
6984780 Stringed instrument fingerboard with position markers  
A stringed instrument fingerboard with position markers for the improved recognition of notes, scales, chords, positions, intervals, and, fingering patterns. The array of position markers is an...
6956158 Method of determining the fret positions for a fingerboard  
The position for a fret on a fingerboard for a stringed instrument having non-parallel strings of different scale lengths is determined by interpolating between, or extrapolating from, a fret...
6888055 Guitar neck support rod  
A support rod has a core and has a composite material covering at least a portion of the core. The support rod is suitable for use in enhancing the rigidity of the neck of a musical instrument,...
6852916 Lute  
This invention relates to a lute comprising a body-shaped sound box and a neck attached thereto. The sound box is made up of a domed rear section and a cover. The aim of the invention is to provide...
6706957 Intonation system for fretted instruments  
The present invention discloses a custom compensated nut and a custom compensated saddle for fretted instruments. Several embodiments are provided for the compensated nut and for the compensated...
6657112 Note bending by neck pivoting  
An improved stringed musical instrument (10) with a neck (12) which can be pivoted by wrist motion relative to the body (11). This action changes the length and therefore pitch of the strings. In...
6657113 Molded fretboard and guitar  
A molded fretboard according to the present invention has integrally molded frets. The frets are composed of a molded mixture including a higher proportion by volume of glass beads than resin,...
6613969 Fret for stringed instruments  
One embodiment of the present invention is a fret adapted for insertion into a fingerboard of an instrument, the fret comprising: (a) a stem adapted to engage the fingerboard when inserted therein,...
6583346 Stock-like sinusoid members for tuning a guitar  
A stock-like fixed sinusoidally curved and shaped member is effective for maintaining a zero cent condition and keeping the relative and respective string lengths and individuated pitches and tones...
6462259 Nut assembly for stringed musical instrument  
A height-adjustable nut assembly for stringed musical instruments can be implemented as a single elongate nut block that can be height-adjusted at each end, or as two such nut blocks disposed...
6452080 Note locator for stringed instruments  
An apparatus and method for a note locator for stringed instruments and method of use. Note locator (10) comprises a flexible planar top and bottom surface wherein the top surface has note position...
6420638 Guitar neck assembly and method of manufacturing same  
A neck for an acoustic guitar made from a plywood material which is glued with and at least partially impregnated with a phenolic resin. The plywood neck is stronger and more durable than...
6384311 Guitar having tremolo device on each string thereof  
A stringed instrument comprises, in combination, a body with a neck extending forwardly therefrom The neck has a tuning portion mounted opposite the body which is adapted to receive one end of a...
6376756 Stringed musical instrument with substituable fingerboards  
A stringed musical instrument having an elongate neck and a body which may have a resonant cavity at one end and a head at the other end thereof. Strings extend across the neck and, when vibrated,...
6369306 Fret system in stringed musical instruments  
In a novel fret system for stringed musical instruments, the fret bar can be fabricated from standard square metal stock, typically of stainless steel. Each fret bar is retained in a corresponding...
6350940 Fretted/fretless stringed musical instrument  
A stringed instrument intended to be alternately played in a fretted mode or an unfretted mode by raising a separate fingerboard to the tops of the frets for the unfretted mode and lowering it for...
6252149 Finger plate for a stringed instrument  
In a finger plate for a stringed instrument, the frets are formed arcuately and have a center of curvature through which some extending lines of strings pass, so that lengths of the strings between...
6127615 Stringed-instrument practice device  
A stringed-instrument practice device for improving a player's rhythm-hand technique involved in playing a stringed instrument. Such a device may have a generally rectangular base including a...
6114618 Method and device for optimizing the position of the strings on stringed and plucked instruments  
A method and device for optimizing the position of the strings on stringed and plucked instruments, especially guitars, and for improving the playability of such instruments. The instruments...
6093879 Bicameral scale musical instruments  
This application relates to various stepped pitch instruments crafted to a novel musical tuning system for the generated frequencies. As such, the tone selection devices are arranged to a distinct...
6069306 Stringed musical instrument and methods of manufacturing same  
The present invention relates to musical instruments and methods and apparatus for producing notes of a musical scale with real strings. More particularly, it relates to the division by frets, of...
6037532 Stringed musical instrument with removable fingerboard  
A stringed musical instrument having an elongate neck and a body which may have a resonant cavity at one end and a head at the other end thereof. Strings extend across the neck and, when vibrated,...
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