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7569760 Peg cutter  
A peg cutter for the peg elements of stringed musical instruments, comprising a cutting-object receptacle, a blade with at least one cutting edge the position of which relative to the...
7534947 Oboe reed gouge apparatus  
An oboe reed gouge device has a carriage upon which a blade is carried at an angle to raw cane material from which a reed is formed. The carriage is rotatably and longitudinally slidable on a rod...
7446251 Musical accessory having tuner and/or metronome and having power generation function  
Disclosed is a musical accessory, equipped with a tuner for stringed instruments and/or a metronome, capable of generating power by itself, which is convenient to use. In an aspect, the musical...
7371955 Drum tuning key  
A drum tuning key comprises a handle portion, a barrel portion defining an axis connected to the handle portion, the barrel portion having internal walls defining a cavity extending inwardly along...
7247780 Wrench tremolo bar for a guitar  
A guitar has a wrench tremolo bar thereon, replacing the standard tremolo bar, with the wrench tremolo bar having a desired wrench on at least one end of the wrench tremolo bar, to cooperate with...
6903256 Holding extension for adding mass to guitar pick  
A pick-handle is attached to the to the “rear” edge of a conventional pick via a metal shaft. The handle portion is made to be comfortably grasped in the palm of the player's hand while the...
6888056 Piano string coil lifting and setting apparatus  
An apparatus ( 10 ) for lifting and setting a piano string coil ( 16 ) is provided for improving tuning stability. Preferably, the apparatus ( 10 ) includes an internal slide hammer portion ( 12 )...
6784353 Musical instrument stringer/tuner device  
A musical instrument stringer/tuner device for replacing the tuning pegs on guitars. The musical instrument stringer/tuner device includes a housing member being adapted to be attachable to a...
6727416 Piano hammer adjustment apparatus and method for using same  
The present invention is an apparatus tuning and adjusting pianos. It maybe attached to the existing hammer shank and simulates a piano hammer. The present invention's dimensions and angles are...
6545206 Tool for musical instrument  
A guitar bridge-pin removal tool has a solid body sized to fit in a users hand and opposite surfaces that can be gripped between the thumb and fingers. A channel is disposed across one end of the...
6489548 String changing assist apparatus and method  
A string assist apparatus and method ( 10 ) includes a support ( 12 ) and a resilient extension ( 14 ) connected to the support ( 12 ). When placed in position on an instrument ( 20 ), one end ( 18...
6482239 Sound post installer  
The present invention, in a preferred embodiment, is a new and improved sound post installer that generally comprises a handle, a prong and a positioning hook. More specifically, the handle is an...
6294719 Musical instrument string winder  
A string winding device for winding and unwinding the string on a peg of a stringed instrument has a generally cylindrical body with a slot extending inward from one end thereof. The slot has a...
6284960 Woodwind instrument reed maintenance device  
A woodwind instrument reed maintenance device that extends the life of a used reed by removing the tip of the reed by burning. The device achieves extended life, and a brighter or a more projected...
6255575 String winding and trimming device  
A device for winding and trimming the strings of a musical instrument is disclosed, the device having an elongated head with an open receptacle on one side and at one end for interengaging the...
6242678 Musical instrument open hole cup plug, plug removal/storage tool, and kit  
A musical instrument open hole cup plug, a plug removal/storage tool, and a kit which includes the tool and a number of the open hole cup plugs. Each plug includes spaced upper and lower circular...
D442209 Compact guitar tool  
D421882 Musical instrument string installer  
6023015 Piano hammer shaping tool  
A hammer shaping tool is designed with two parts: a piano hammer template and a sanding strip. The template's face surface is a mirror of an desirably shaped piano hammer with side walls forming a...
6005179 Woodwind cleaning sleeve  
The woodwind cleaning sleeve is designed to encase a rigid rod or dowel (20) that assists in pushing the cleaning sleeve through the inside of a musical instrument (22) in order to remove the...
5994636 Guitar repair tool  
Clamping tool especially suitable for guitar repair which can be inserted into the sound hole of a guitar, with tensioning means spaced from the point at which force is applied to the instrument.
D412011 Hand-held motorized tightener for musical instrument strings  
5814748 Pitch raise tuning for digital aural musical instrument tuning  
Methods and apparatus determine tuning frequencies for an instrument, such as a piano, by sounding at least three musical notes of the instrument. The sounded notes are recorded and digitally...
5804748 Sound post installer  
The present invention is an improvement in the way a sound post is installed into a violin or viola. The present device secures the sound post to the device by using a cradle and wire loop. The...
5798472 Drum beater for bass drum equipped with exactly adjustable return spring regulator  
A return spring regulator incorporated in a drum beater has a regulating nut rotatable with respect to a frame and a regulating bolt screwed into the regulating nut, and a player regulates the...
5756913 Automatic piano tuner  
A piano tuning system having an electronic control circuit which receives sound through a microphone for a piano key. Based upon a comparison of this sound with stored piano fundamental...
5736660 Method of adjusting length of duplex scale portion of piano strings  
The invention relates to an acoustic piano having a fretbase on which at least one fret node is supported by a fret and an adjacent node spaced from the fret node. Selected piano strings press...
5696341 Guitar string tuning system  
A tuning knob and tuning knob system for a stringed instrument such as a guitar replaces the existing tuning knob. The present tuning knob is a cylindrical knob with exterior knurls and a central...
5689076 Drum adjustment apparatus  
A drum adjustment apparatus (60) is disclosed which retains a drum key (50) on the clothes of a user for ready access in adjusting the tension of drum heads. An envelope (64) mounts the drum key to...
5686681 String clamping plate extractor for Floyd Rose tremolo  
An extractor (30) for removing string clamping plates (26) from Floyd Rose tremolos (20) has a tongue (36) with a pin (38) which can engage hole (27) in plate (26) so that threaded element (42)...
5505116 Stringing accessory for stringed musical instruments  
Installation and tuning of strings on a musical instrument is aided by an accessory having a socket which fits onto the heads of the string engaging pegs of the instrument. A lever extends...
5410939 Musical instrument string winding device  
A musical instrument string winding device is set forth for winding the strings on a stringed musical instrument. The device has a hollow housing. A chuck is extended from the housing for receiving...
5388491 Cello tuning peg  
A tuning peg for a cello musical instrument where the tuning peg has a tapered cylindrical body which has an axially extending recess therein. A handle is removably mounted to the cylindrical body...
5272953 String winder tool for musical instrument  
A musical instrument string winder for engaging a musical instrument knob (e.g. guitar knob) for tightening or loosening a musical instrument string includes a knob socket and a turning handle. The...
5159762 Regulating rule for grand pianos  
The present invention enables accurate measuring and regulating operations to be carried out by measuring with a rule the quantity of movement of a hammer in a grand piano during an action...
5065660 Piano tuning system  
A system for tuning pianos and other string instruments utilizes a clamp-on probe with a feedback loop to induce a controlled vibration of the string and its natural frequency of vibration. This...
4791849 Motorized string tuning apparatus  
A motorized string tuning apparatus is set forth for the tuning of string instruments by the tensioning of the elongated filaments associated therewith. A portable motorized unit with an axially...
4708182 Reedmaking system, methodology, and component tools  
A reedmaking system is disclosed that includes a device for thickness sizing by sliding a cane segment along a guide surface past a cutting edge that is spaced apart from the guide surface a...
4697494 Piano soundboard downbearing force simulator  
Pianos in which the desired downbearing force of the strings upon the bridges and soundboard is predetermined and accurately simulated upon the soundboard bridges so that adjustments can be made to...
4476770 Device for micro tuning pianos and other stringed instruments  
A device for micro tuning stringed instruments such as pianos, harps, and the like including a portable tool mechanism removably attachable to a tuning peg having appropriate gearing and means for...
4452122 Piano tuning mutes  
A muting strip for use in tuning the un-wound three string unisons of the treble section in pianos consisting of a strip of muting material having on it a series of wedges spaced at a distance from...
4367671 Clutched tuning peg handle  
An adjustable clutched handle for turning the drive shaft of a tuning peg assembly on a stringed instrument, such as a guitar, is disclosed. The clutched handle includes a tubular handle element...
4287806 Method and apparatus for tensioning a drum  
A method of tensioning a musical drum is disclosed using a device for torquing the tension rods of the drum. The device has a housing having a central aperture and a concentric upper recess. The...
4278002 Fast-wind tuning machine for stringed musical instrument  
A handle to facilitate more rapid winding/or unwinding of a string of a musical instrument is disclosed. The handle replaces the usual knob, and includes a crank member which can be pivoted out...
4276805 Covering wire tightening device composite strings of pianos  
Device for tightening a coiled covering wire of a composite piano string relative to the core wire thereof comprises a spring-loaded operating shaft axially movably encased within an elongated...
4231404 Device for trimming the reeds of wind instruments  
The invention relates to a device for trimming the reed of a wind instrument. This device comprises a body a flat part of which forms a support for said reed, a removable cutting member having a...
4218952 Drum tensioning  
For tensioning a drum head, a counter hoop bearing on the rim of the drum head is formed to define an annular channel between itself and the drum shell over which the drum head is stretched....
4197780 Method and apparatus for stabilizing the tension of musical instrument strings  
An apparatus and method are disclosed for inducing pitch stability in musical strings. A tensioned string is placed in a frictioning channel provided in the apparatus; and the apparatus is then...
4196652 Digital electronic tuner  
A digital electronic tuning device is provided in which an arrangement of light-emitting diodes [LED's] or other display elements indicates when two frequencies are equal. If the frequencies are...
4047461 Piano key button alignment tool  
A jig to establish the precise location of a piano key button upon a piano key which takes the form in the shape of a parallelogram with the sides being pivotable with respect to each other. Upon...
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