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| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 221 | Dual saddle bridge | US11054781 | 2005-02-09 | US20050188814A1 | 2005-09-01 | David Bell; Ronald Wright |
| A stringed musical instrument has a body coupled to a single neck, multiple registers of strings, and a bridge that provides for at least one of acoustic and electronic separation of the multiple registers. The strings are preferrably arranged in paired courses, each of which has two members tuned to vibrate sympathetically with one another. In at least one of the members of each pair is a metallic string, and the other is a nylon or other non-metallic string. Preferred examples include a guitar, and more preferably an acoustic 12-string guitar. The bridge preferably has interleaved saddles for the various strings, each of which has its own associated pickup. The sounding board is reinforced with transverse brace struts. Optional equipment includes a balancing circuit that can be used to balance outputs of the vibration sensors. | ||||||
| 222 | Solid body acoustic guitar | US10256340 | 2002-09-26 | US20040060417A1 | 2004-04-01 | Richard Janes; Dan Smith; George Blanda |
| 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 solid material, so as to substantially cover the cavity. | ||||||
| 223 | Structure body formed by rib member and plate members | US09852606 | 2001-05-10 | US06657111B2 | 2003-12-02 | Kiyoshi Minakuchi |
| A bonding structure is provided, which is capable of eliminating overflow of the adhesive to the outside of the body, and which is capable of eliminating generation of a shrinkage cavity. The cross-section of a rib member 10 is to have approximate H shaped cross section, which shape is formed by an internal flange 11 and an external flange 12, each connected by a web 13, and the plate members are adhered to the top and bottom surfaces 11A and 11B of the internal flange 11. | ||||||
| 224 | Multiple neck, integral body musical instrument | US10082945 | 2002-02-26 | US06649818B2 | 2003-11-18 | Ronald Irvin Bailey |
| A multiple neck, integral single-body musical instrument having the performance of a multiple full bodied instrument but the feel of a single body construction where the body is substantially u-shaped which defines substantially parallel planes and where a neck extends from each substantially parallel plane. The musical instrument may be acoustic or electric or a combination instrument. The instrument may be a guitar, mandolin, banjo, violin, bass, fingerboard, keyboards and the like. | ||||||
| 225 | Musical instrument with multiple interchangeable stringed instruments | US10116586 | 2002-04-05 | US20030188622A1 | 2003-10-09 | Scott Wilson |
| This invention relates to stringed musical instruments; and more particularly to a novel combination of choices of three compact, portable stringed musical instruments attached to a single frame, allowing both immediate access and the possibility of playing any three combinations at the same time, of electric guitar, classical guitar, folk guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, oud (Arabic guitar), saz (Turkish guitar), or bouzoukie (Greek mandolin). The novel design of these individual instruments allows the possibility of any of these individual instruments to be attached to existing standard electric and acoustic guitars and banjos, expanding the existing instrument into dual stringed instruments. | ||||||
| 226 | Acoustic guitar with internally located cassette tape player | US10051525 | 2002-01-18 | US06605765B1 | 2003-08-12 | William A. Johnson |
| An acoustic guitar is combined with a cassette tape player carried inside of the body of the guitar and arranged for playing recorded music simultaneously with live music being played on the guitar by a musician. Necessary switches, wiring, and power supplies are also included. In one version of the assembly all components are carried inside or on the surface of the guitar so as to provide a self-contained assembly. Another version includes an external, large amplifier/speaker located away from the guitar but interconnected with controls and a pickup device on the guitar. | ||||||
| 227 | ACOUSTIC STRINGED INSTRUMENT WITH SPRING SUPPORTED TOP | US10039256 | 2002-01-01 | US20030121393A1 | 2003-07-03 | Kevin Brown |
| A stringed instrument with a compliantly suspended sound board allows for deeper, richer sound in s smaller sized instrument. The compliant suspension of the sound board allows for greater acoustic excursions at the edges of the sound board. The resonance set up between the compliance of the sound suspension and the mass of the sound board may be placed below and near the Helmholtz resonance of the instrument to effectively create a broader, lower-frequency Helmholtz resonance than would typically be achievable in instruments of similar size. | ||||||
| 228 | Walking cane stringed instrument | US10090660 | 2002-03-04 | US06583345B1 | 2003-06-24 | Roderick Paul Clinton |
| A versatile walking cane adapted to be used alternatively as a stringed musical instrument. The cane has a handle portion, a tip portion and an elongate, preferably cylindrical body portion therebetween. The body portion has a plurality of tuning pegs rotatably mounted thereon adjacent the handle portion, a nut rigidly mounted near the tip portion and a bridge rigidly mounted between the tuning pegs and the nut. One end of each of a plurality of strings are spaced from one another and attached to the nut while the opposing ends of the strings are attached to the tuning pegs such that the strings contact the bridge and the nut and are spaced from the portion of the body portion therebetween. The portion of the strings between the bridge and the nut overlie a plurality of frets rigidly attached to the portion of the body portion between the nut and the bridge. The body portion, which is preferably hollow, may further include a hole therein disposed between the bridge and the nut. A rubber cap is preferably affixed to the tip portion. The cane may be used either as a support for walking or as a musical instrument. | ||||||
| 229 | Stringed musical instruments and method therefor | US10195742 | 2002-07-15 | US20030094087A1 | 2003-05-22 | Maestro Alex Gregory |
| A musical system for stringed instruments based on tuning in fifths in conjunction with component control reduces dissonance and discord while increasing harmony and consonance. In a stringed instrument, the main music-making portion of the string serves to drive the other non-music-making portions or supporting portions of the string. This is particularly true at the end of the string past the stop point toward the fixed end and upward past the nut towards the turnable post controlled by a key. By appropriately selecting and providing adjustment for the stop point, as well as the length of the strings past the bridge, less dissonance arises from the individual string as it is played. A string retainer or the like, as well as a compound head, may serve to provide adjustable or selectable means by which tension on a plurality of strings may be adjusted to provide uniform tension between individual strings. Tuning in fifths provides inter-string harmony. According to the available range of individual instruments, an entire orchestra including stringed instruments, tuned drums, and vocalists achieve an ensemble known as the PENTA orchestra, an ensemble incorporating the PENTA system of the present invention. | ||||||
| 230 | Stringed musical instrument with soundbox extension | US10000542 | 2001-10-30 | US20020162442A1 | 2002-11-07 | Harvard Jasper Bryan |
| A stringed musical instrument having an extended soundbox which enhances the structural integrity and sound quality of the instrument. In a preferred embodiment, the stringed musical instrument with soundbox extension is a mandolin having a main soundbox similar to the soundbox of a conventional mandolin but the soundbox extension of this invention extends forward from the main soundbox toward the head on both sides of the neck between the planes of the back and the top. The soundbox extension is an open channel formed by the top, back, and sides that do not terminate at the front of the main soundbox, as they do on a conventional mandolin, but the extend forward and form an inverted nullUnull shaped channel. The soundbox extension traverses the neck, fingerboard and strings between the head and the nut of the instrument; as the neck, fingerboard and strings traverse the soundbox extension. The soundbox extension provides enhanced structural integrity by providing means for attaching the neck at both ends, thus eliminating the need for a truss rod through the neck. | ||||||
| 231 | Supporting the sound box of a stringed instrument with rods | US08876226 | 1997-06-16 | US06433263B1 | 2002-08-13 | John H. Hogue |
| A method to relieve the pressure on the top, bottom, and sides of a stringed musical instrument by securing two wooden rods between the neck block and the tail block, with the rods positioned lower at the tail block than at the neck block. The rods are tapped and tuned by selectively removing material from the rods to achieve the desired tone and to eliminate sound wave clash. This method will allow more different types of material to be used in the construction of musical instruments with more powerful and improved tone quality. | ||||||
| 232 | Stringed musical instrument body and neck assembly | US09575320 | 2000-05-19 | US06372970B1 | 2002-04-16 | Robert H. Saunders, Jr.; Nicholas Ladutko; Donald M. Johnson; Frank I. Untermyer; William P. Vassilopoulos; Clifford Gunsallus; William Hudak |
| An acoustical stringed instrument includes a body, which has a top member having a generally flat forward part. The body also has a back member which includes a side wall with an upper section and a lower section and an inner side wall surface generally perpendicular to the forward part of the top member. A neck member of the instrument has an elongated upper portion extending upwardly from the upper section of the body side wall. Additionally, the neck member has an elongated lower portion extending through the interior of the body between the upper section and the lower section of the side wall and spaced rearwardly of the forward part of the top member. The elongated lower neck portion has an upper mounting means fixed to the inner side wall surface at the upper section of the body side wall, and a lower mounting means fixed to the inner side wall surface at the lower section of the body side wall. | ||||||
| 233 | Stringed instrument neck having finger slots | US09827749 | 2001-04-06 | US06329581B1 | 2001-12-11 | Nosson Negin |
| A stringed instrument neck having finger slots for facilitating fingering chords when playing a guitar includes a main body portion having a bridge. A neck extends from the main body portion and includes a front face, a first end, a head portion and a medical portion extending between the first end and the head portion. The first end is coupled to the main body portion. A plurality of strings are coupled between the bridge and the head portion. The strings are positioned to extend substantially parallel to each other along the neck. The neck includes a plurality of finger slots extending substantially parallel to the strings. Each of the finger slots is positioned between an associated adjacent pair of the strings such that the neck is designed for permitting insertion of fingers of a user through the finger slots for facilitating selective clamping of the strings against the neck by the fingers of the user. | ||||||
| 234 | Structure body formed by rib member and plate members | US09852606 | 2001-05-10 | US20010042433A1 | 2001-11-22 | Kiyoshi Minakuchi |
| A bonding structure is provided, which is capable of eliminating overflow of the adhesive to the outside of the body, and which is capable of eliminating generation of a shrinkage cavity. The cross-section of a rib member 10 is to have approximate H shaped cross section, which shape is formed by an internal flange 11 and an external flange 12, each connected by a web 13, and the plate members are adhered to the top and bottom surfaces 11A and 11B of the internal flange 11. | ||||||
| 235 | Guitar with short seventh string and shift lever for easy conversion to banjo tuning | US79106 | 1998-05-14 | US06114617A | 2000-09-05 | Donald Albert Scheib |
| A single instrument can be played as a guitar or a banjo with a simple adjustment. It has six guitar strings (1 to 6), plus a seventh, shorter string (7). Its neck (12) is widened for part (12W) of its length, starting from the body (10) and then narrows. The six strings run over the pickups (28 and 30) and tuning bridge (24) and are anchored on the backside. Their opposite ends are wound around the tuning pegs at the end of the neck. A shift lever (38S) is attached to the first peg for rapidly changing the tuning from its normal pitch, E, down to D. The seventh string is tuned to G, as with the fifth string of a banjo. Its ball or stopped end is captivated by a knurled adjustment nut (42) under the body. It passes through the body and over the bridge (24), the pickups (28 and 30), over the body and widened part of the neck. Its free end is anchored at an anchor hole (12H) in the neck. To play the instrument as a guitar, the player uses the first six strings, which are tuned to the guitar pitches, i.e., E, B, G, D, A, and E. To play it as a banjo, the player down-tunes the first string to D using the shift lever. The resultant first four strings will be tuned to the first four banjo strings, D, B, G, D, and G, and the half string is already tuned to G, as with the fifth string of a banjo. | ||||||
| 236 | Pedal guitar | US680752 | 1996-07-15 | US5883320A | 1999-03-16 | Ronald T. Lashley |
| A counter-force mechanism is provided for use with a stringed instrument, such as a pedal guitar, which neutralizes the adverse effects on adjoining strings during the sharpening or flattening of notes. In one embodiment the counter-force mechanism is affixed to the tone changer axle near the pickup and in another embodiment the counter-force mechanism is affixed at the opposite end to the head of the guitar in contact with the strings. Pull and push rods connected to the foot pedals and knee levers operate the counter-force mechanism automatically as the pedals and levers are used, as is standard while playing. | ||||||
| 237 | Stringed musical instrument | US350811 | 1994-12-08 | US5537906A | 1996-07-23 | Richard N. Steinberger |
| An electric stringed musical instrument of the lute family, and in particular, a double bass, wherein the body, neck, and headstock are cut out of a single laminated section of a cone. The front surface of the headstock is coplanar with the neck and body, and the back surface is substantially concentric with the front surface. The strings are anchored in a central cutout in the headstock. Also disclosed is a neck-straightening truss rod capable of exerting either compressive or tensile forces on the neck, a pair of sensors sensitive to string vibrations coupled the bridge which are summed and differenced to provide signals useful in connection with plucked and bowed strings respectively, and a twist resisting support to make a slim double bass practical. | ||||||
| 238 | Stringed musical instrument that can be played by two musicians simultaneously | US399955 | 1989-08-29 | US4953434A | 1990-09-04 | Paul A. Guss |
| The present invention comprises a novel stringed musical instrument that can be played by two musicians simultaneously. The instrument comprises two instrument bodies with necks mutually joined about a common central cavity such that the instrument may be flexed about a common vertex located at the center of the central cavity. In the preferred embodiment, the instrument bodies are joined about a spherical resonant cavity and are joined at the center thereof by a joint mechanism allowing angular and rotational freedom of motion for the two instrument bodies with respect to each other. The invention is particularly suited to the guitar, and allows for a plurality of sounds produced from the two guitar bodies to be simultaneously focused and combined within the central resonant cavity. Therefore two musicians can engage in the playing of duets upon a single musical instrument. The shape of the guitar bodies may be such so as to enhance the focusing of sounds produced from respective sets of guitar strings toward the common vertex. A microphone or other sound transducing element may be positioned in the central cavity at the common vertex. | ||||||
| 239 | Collapsible stringed musical instrument | US87047 | 1987-08-19 | US4770079A | 1988-09-13 | Joseph C. Mastroianni |
| A collapsible stringed musical instrument having an elongated body with a coupling portion at one end, a string bridge portion at the other end, a playing face and an opposite back face. A neck is provided with a coupling portion at one end and a string peg portion at the other end. The coupling portion of the neck is adapted to mate with the coupling portion of the body. A plurality of supports are pivotably affixed at one end to the back face of the body. The supports pivot from a closed position in which they are substantially situated within the outline of the elongated body to an open position in which they substantially extend beyond such outline. | ||||||
| 240 | Stringed musical instrument | US157255 | 1980-06-06 | US4305322A | 1981-12-15 | Lester X. Ray, Sr. |
| A stringed musical instrument is disclosed in which the strings are stretched between the ends of an elongate curved bow member. The bow member is adapted to be held by the player with a side of the upper end against the cheek of the player. The playing strings are all attached to a peg at the lower end of the bow member and to tuning keys at the upper end of the bow member. When played, the vibrations caused by the playing strings are transferred to the cheek of the player such that the mouth of the player, when opened and shaped to various degrees and forms, constitutes not only a sound box but permits the playing of a tune. Where the bow member is flexible, a reinforcing member running from one end of the bow member to the other along the outside curved portion can be used to counteract the pulling force of the playing strings as they are tensioned. In this manner, the tuning of the playing strings can be maintained. | ||||||
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