| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 084297000 |
Strings and fastenings
| 113 |
| 084320000 |
Picking devices
| 60 |
| 084293000 |
Necks
| 50 |
| 084327000 |
Instrument supports
| 45 |
| 084315000 |
Fingering devices
| 44 |
| 084313000 |
Tremolo devices
| 43 |
| 084291000 |
Bodies
| 41 |
| 084314000 |
Finger boards and frets
| 27 |
| 084307000 |
Bridges
| 19 |
| 084294000 |
Resonance devices
| 18 |
| 084329000 |
Article holders
| 14 |
| 084312000 |
Tunings
| 13 |
| 084328000 |
Arm, hand, or finger rests | 4 |
| 20100037748 | GUITAR HAVING CHEST AND ARM RESTS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - Disclosed herein is a guitar, which includes a chest rest formed on a back plate of a main body so that the guitar can be gripped in a stable manner and can be played with a comfort of chest. The guitar further includes an arm rest formed on a top plate of the main body so that so that the guitar can be gripped in a stable manner and can be played with a comfort of chest and arm. A method of manufacturing the chest and arm rest is also disclosed. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20110000358 | Shoulder Rest for a Stringed Instrument - A shoulder rest ( | 01-06-2011 |
| 20130213207 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT HAND REST - A hand rest for a guitar or other such stringed instrument configured to be positioned over strings of the stringed instrument such that a user of the stringed instrument may rest a hand on at least a portion of the hand rest while using the stringed instrument. Furthermore, the hand rest is configured to not interfere with a user striking one or more strings and the vibration of one or more strings. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20160148603 | Method for Increasing the Shape and Effective Thickness of the Neck of a Stringed Musical Instrument - A method of adjusting the effective thickness and/or shape of the neck of a string instrument involves use of spacer device consisting of a precisely molded or shaped material such as wood, metal, or plastic that covers the palm of the hand between the thumb and index finger including the web, thenar compartment, central compartment and hypothenar compartment as well as distal and proximal palmer area used to precisely thicken and modify the shape of the neck of a stringed musical instrument. The spacer device may be bonded to a holder such as the palm area of a fingerless glove or to a strap device covering the palm of the hand using hook and loop bonding material or an adhesive. Alternatively the device may be directly attached to the neck of the instrument or attached to the palm of the hand or held in place by the pressure of the palm on the neck of the instrument. The wooden spacer has a low enough coefficient of friction to slide freely along the neck of a string instrument. | 05-26-2016 |
| 084325000 |
Bowing mechanism | 3 |
| 20110094365 | BOW HOLD TRAINING DEVICE - Training devices for facilitating proper bow holds on bow sticks of bowed stringed instruments. An exemplary training device may include a fingers stabilizer having a body with one or more thumb opening walls that define a thumb opening in the body. The thumb opening walls and/or the thumb opening may guide a thumb to the bow stick and position an end of the thumb at an approximate intersection of a bow stick frog and a bow stick shaft. The body may also include a finger separator that helps position an index finger and a middle finger on the bow stick. The fingers stabilizer may also have contact areas for positioning a ring finger and a pinky finger on the bow stick. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110247475 | STICK OF STRING INSTRUMENT BOW, STRING INSTRUMENT BOW AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING STICK OF STRING INSTRUMENT BOW - A stick of a string instrument bow includes a base material having an arched-rod shaped carbon fiber resin layer made of carbon fiber resin and a glass fiber resin layer which covers the outer surface of the carbon fiber resin layer and is made of glass fiber resin, and the glass fiber resin layer has a non-adhesion portion formed of an air layer present within the glass fiber resin layer and an adhesion portion which does not include the air layer. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20150340018 | NOVEL STRING INSTRUEMNT BOW AND METHOD OF USING SAME - The present invention provides an assembly and method for playing music, whereby the assembly includes a bow spline, string stretched with tension along a portion of said spline, a frame having an apex, said frame positioned between said spline and said string, at least one string retaining member disposed on said apex, and a lower frame portion configured to contact said spline. | 11-26-2015 |
| 084323000 |
Hammer mechanism | 3 |
| 20110219934 | PERCUSSIVE ACCESSORY FOR STRING INSTRUMENT - A percussive device for a stringed instrument. The percussive device includes a support structure, an attachment component that attaches the support structure to the stringed instrument, one or more hammers attached to arms rotatably coupled to the support structure and one or more actuators rotatably coupled to the support structure. User activation of the one of the actuators causes a corresponding one of the hammers to make contact with a string of the stringed instrument. A rotational force device applies a rotational force to at least one of the hammer arms or actuators. The rotational force device includes a torsion or helical compression spring. The applied rotational force causes the hammer to be positioned not in contact with the string of the stringed instrument. The applied rotational force is overcome when an applicable force has been applied to the corresponding actuator by a user, thereby causing the at least one hammer to be positioned in contact with the corresponding string of the stringed instrument. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20120125176 | Guitar Hammer and Method - A hand-held hammer for playing a guitar includes a handle, an arm and a head. The head has a head longitudinal axis and a striking surface that is generally transverse to the longitudinal axis of the arm. The striking surface is curved and equal to or longer than the distance between the first and fourth string of a six-string guitar. The player holds the guitar, selects the string length by fretting one or more strings, grips the hammer by the handle and strikes the strings with the striking surface. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20130333543 | PERCUSSIVE ACCESSORY FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENTS - A percussive device for a stringed instrument includes a support structure, an attachment component that attaches the support structure to the stringed instrument, one or more hammers attached to arms rotatably coupled to the support structure and one or more actuators rotatably coupled to the support structure. User activation of the one of the actuators causes a corresponding one of the hammers to make contact with a string of the stringed instrument. A rotational force device applies a rotational force to at least one of the hammer arms or actuators. The rotational force device includes a torsion or helical compression spring. The applied rotational force causes the hammer to be positioned not in contact with the string of the stringed instrument. The applied rotational force is overcome when an applicable force has been applied to the corresponding actuator by a user, thereby causing the at least one hammer to be positioned in contact with the corresponding string of the stringed instrument. | 12-19-2013 |
| Entries |
| Document | Title | Date |
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| 20090282963 | Necked String Instrument Support Particularly Suited For A Guitar - A novel display and storage hanger for a musical instrument, and particularly, a guitar which provides for user unobtrusive, secure mounting at a selected angular rotation to achieve a desired display or storage position. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090288543 | VARIABLE STRINGED INSTRUMENT - A stringed musical instrument having a profile to which may be removably attached one or more components at various positions on the profile so that instruments of various scales may be configured on the profile. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20130276612 | PERCUSSIVE BLOCK FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - A percussion attachment for a musical instrument. The attachment includes a body having at least one aerating hole formed therein. A clamp is mounted to the body that attaches the body to the musical instrument. The body may be struck and/or scraped by the stick of a bow to produce percussion as well as functioning simultaneously as a protector as the musical instrument is being played. The body may include ribs that are spaced along an outermost curved edge of the body such that contacting the ribs with the stick of a bow to produce a percussion sound. The body may also include pits spaced on a top surface of the body such that contacting the pits with the stick of a bow to produce a percussion sound. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20140144305 | ELEMENTS TO IMPROVE THE SOUND QUALITY OF STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - The present invention concerns modifications intended to improve the sound quality of stringed musical-instruments through modification of stiffness/flexibility, vibration/resonance-transmitting properties and weight-reduction of the fingerboard, neck, tailpiece, the upper- and lower block, sound post or sound pegs, bass bar or sound bars, and the upper and lower saddle rod using combined lightweight materials and specific construction principles. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20150107433 | Compani Braces for Musical Instruments - The conventional musical instrument top and back plates are supported with straight and scalloped braces. These braces tend to dampen vibrations along the length direction of the brace. Kerfed braces are introduced to mitigate the damping. If glued with their kerfed edge to the top or back plates they mitigate damping without much compromise in their strengthening properties. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20160163293 | Soundhole Cover Accessories - Soundhole cover accessories may act to prevent items from falling into the body of an instrument through its soundhole, such as guitar picks or the like. The accessories may include a body portion adapted to fit over the soundhole of the instrument and a mesh portion defined by a plurality of apertures that may be dimensioned so that items that may be used with the instrument (such as guitar picks) are substantially prevented from passing there through. The body portion may act as a base to which one or more adhesive fasteners may be attached. The body may be flexible or rigid, and may be placed over the soundhole and affixed into place by the adhesive fasteners. | 06-09-2016 |
