| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
|---|
| 084290000 |
Details
| 503 |
| 084174000 |
Pianos
| 96 |
| 084274000 |
Violins
| 37 |
| 084267000 |
Guitars
| 25 |
| 084264000 |
Harps
| 7 |
| 084269000 |
Banjos | 3 |
| 20160042724 | SIMPLIFIED BANJO AND DRUM BODY - The present invention is directed to a Simplified Banjo and Drum Body where the body section of the instruments will consist of an upper compression ring with grooves on the lower surface, a shell having mating compression grooves on the upper edge surface and the banjo head material. An optional tone ring can be added on the inner surface of the shell. The unique feature of this application is that when the compression ring is tightened down on the shell of the instrument the head material is automatically tightened over the instrument. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20080257129 | MITCHEL'S TONE RING MATE - “Mitchel's Tone Ring Mate” is completely new to the banjo world. The “Mitchel's Tone Ring Mate” is a smaller tone ring in itself, sitting on top of the original raised head tone ring at 25 thousands higher and at opposite angles, thus converting the original raised head tone ring to a flat head tone ring. Being completely different than any other invention. This doing, by design, composition and development, unknown in manufacturing there into. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20120222537 | VERTICAL SIDES BANJO TONE RING AND METHODS - The present invention is a banjo tone ring with vertical sides ( | 09-06-2012 |
| 084263000 |
Combined | 2 |
| 20080210077 | Combination bass with both frets and no frets on the same neck - A musical instrument comprising of a fretted bass guitar and a fretless bass guitar as a single instrument and with only one neck. This multi stringed instrument has anywhere between four and twelve strings and combines some areas of the neck with frets and some areas with no frets. The pick-up system is also divided as to split as an output a stereo signal. This stereo signal or dual output in turn allows the two different basses (fretted and fretless) to be controlled separately or independently with respect to volume, equalization and signal processing. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20140123829 | Stringed Musical Instrument with a Guitar-Banjo Combination Sound - A stringed musical instrument with a guitar-banjo combination sound is an apparatus that is designed to be played in the same manner as a typical guitar but is also designed to be more portable than a typical guitar. The apparatus includes a sound box coupled to a guitar neck, which allows a plurality of strings to tensioned and connected along the apparatus. The sound box is configured to produce the guitar-banjo combination sound. The sound box includes a stretched membrane, a pot chamber, a channel, and a sound chamber. The stretched membrane is perimetrically connected around the pot chamber and is used to create the banjo portion of the apparatus's sound. stretched membrane resonates the air within the pot chamber, whose sound waves travel through the channel in order to be modified by the sound chamber. A bridge is used to connect the plurality of strings to the stretched membrane. | 05-08-2014 |
| 084285000 |
Zithers | 1 |
| 20100307314 | Stringed instrument with keyboard - A musical instrument includes a body, a neck attached to the body, a plurality of strings having first ends secured to the body and second ends secured to the neck, and a keyboard secured to the body. Optionally, each of the strings is associated with a plucker. | 12-09-2010 |
