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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
6034310 String instrument, method of playing a string instrument, apparatus for manufacture of a string instrument, and string instrument kit  
The present invention includes a string instrument that includes a neck having a finger board, a finger board having a plurality of frets and having a finger board axis along the length of the...
5998714 Tonal compensator system for the fretboards of stringed instruments  
A compensator system for a stringed instrument is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of compensator blocks selectively positionable on the fretboard of a stringed instrument between its...
5977462 Indicators for a stringed musical instrument  
Indicators for a stringed musical instrument having a fingerboard and strings stretched over the fingerboard. The indicators indicate the pitch produced when the string is pressed down against the...
5952593 Removable frets for fretted stringed musical instruments  
A fretted stringed musical instrument is provided with channels which can removably accommodate frets. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the channels are provided at locations where it is...
5864073 Laminated neck for guitars, and combination thereof with adjustment system  
An improved neck for a guitar which is comprised of a elongated body, an elongated fingerboard, and an elongated strip. The fingerboard is mounted longitudinally of the body on the upper side of...
5852249 Elongated string support for a stringed musical instrument  
An elongated string support for a stringed musical instrument includes a finger-board surface having a bass side and a treble side and extending between a proximal end and a distal end relative to...
5847298 Supplemental fret attachment for musical stringed instrument  
A guitar includes a guitar body having a bridge, and an elongated neck having a first end connected to the guitar body and a second end joined to a head having a series of tuning pegs. A plurality...
5760322 Guitar with deviations to straight fret architecture  
A fingerboard for a guitar or similar stringed musical instrument has fixed standard right angle frets on the face of the instruments neck. The invention resides in a measured deviation in the fret...
5728956 Method and apparatus for fully adjusting and intonating an acoustic guitar  
A fully adjustable acoustic guitar bridge is claimed that allows the strings (nylon or steel) of an acoustic guitar to be separately and continuously intonated accurately and easily whenever...
5696337 Concave finger board for stringed instruments  
A musical instrument, such as a guitar, having strings across a bridge, a finger board and a nut wherein the bridge, finger board, and nut have a concave curvature. Preferably, the concave...
5631432 Stringed instrument  
A guitar fingerboard provided with modular fretboard construction for ease of fretboard replacement, superior fret anchoring bi-directional string bending, and a fretboard design with longitudinal...
5373768 Musical instrument neck illuminator  
An attachable and removable illuminated fiber optic strand adhered to the top side surface of a guitar neck and which conducts light to a plurality of predetermined proportionally etched abrasions...
5337644 Stringed musical instrument with multi-laminate fretboard  
A light weight guitar construction and associated method of manufacture involves the use of a light weight wood core material having deposited thereover a strengthening layer preferably of carbon...
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