| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 084293000 | Necks | 50 |
| 20080229897 | Musical Instrument Sloped Neck Joint - A joint between a neck and a body of a stringed musical instrument is described, wherein a neck receiving cavity in the body has a sloped major bearing surface. The sloped major bearing surface urges the neck laterally into a side surface of the neck receiving cavity as a connector pulls the neck into the neck receiving cavity. By urging the neck into a side surface of the neck receiving cavity, a second bearing surface is made in a different plane than the major bearing surface, which makes a more rigid joint between the body and the neck of the musical instrument. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080302228 | 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 of light elements. The fingerboard is adapted to conceal the presence of the light elements when the light elements are not illuminated and to allow the passage of at least some illumination from the light elements when the light elements are illuminated. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090084243 | Folding electronic instrument - A portable electronic stringed instrument is disclosed. The folding instrument includes a neck portion and a body portion and a connection portion for connecting the neck portion to the body portion. A plurality of adjustable neck strings are disposed between a nut and a neck bridge on the neck portion and a plurality of adjustable body strings are disposed between a nut and a body bridge on the body portion. A finger placement sensor array is disposed on the neck portion proximate the frets and the neck strings. A string vibration sensor is disposed on the body portion proximate the body strings. Although the approximate length of the neck portion can be about 8 to about 12 inches, the fret board on the neck portion includes a plurality of frets that are precisely spaced to provide the fret spacing of a standard, 25.6- to 26-inch “scale length” acoustical guitar. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090100981 | Collapsible Stringed Musical Instrument - A collapsible stringed instrument having a body with a soundboard, a back face, a neck, and a spacer. The perimeter of the soundboard is connected to the perimeter of the back face by the spacer. The volume between the spacer, the soundboard, and the back face define a sound chamber. The neck is pivotally and laterally coupled to the body which has a door in the back face. The neck is able to pivot and slide through the door and into the sound chamber. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090151537 | FOLDING GUITAR WITH SELF ALIGNING NECK - A self aligning folding guitar comprises a neck portion, and a body portion. They hinge it is mounted to the neck portion and the body portion. A first alignment member is secured to the neck portion. The second alignment member is secured to the body portion, the second alignment member meeting with the first alignment member at a substantially fixed position. A securement member secures the first alignment member to the second alignment member. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090173207 | TRAVEL STRING INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - A string instrument comprising a neck extension primary member, having a neck extension securement end and a tuning assembly support head end, an extension top arid a length extending between the ends, is disclosed. The neck extension primary member defines a neck extension cutaway volume configured to receive a hinge butt. The neck extension cutaway volume extends to be open at the neck extension securement end and open at the top of the neck extension primary member. A neck base primary member has a neck base securement end, a base top and an opposite end. The neck base primary member is made to define a neck base cutaway volume configured to receive a hinge butt. The neck base cutaway volume extends to be open at the neck base securement end and open at the top of the neck base primary member. A hinge has a first hinge butt positioned in the neck extension cutaway volume and a second hinge butt positioned in the neck base cutaway volume. A neck fretboard portion is secured over the open top of the neck extension cutaway volume and bears against the first hinge butt. A base cover is secured over the open top of the neck base cutaway volume and bears against the second hinge butt. A string instrument main body is secured to the neck base primary member. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090308221 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT STRING ACTION ADJUSTMENT - A stringed musical instrument comprises: a headstock with tuners; a neck having a fingerboard, and a neck extension; a body having a top, a back, a longitudinal recess in the back for receipt of the neck extension and a bridge with a saddle secured to the body; and, one or more strings stretched from the headstock over the neck and fingerboard and over a portion of the top of the body to contact points on the bridge saddle. The instrument is further provided with a pivotal mount for mounting the neck to the body and a string action adjustment member for moving the neck lower extended end within the body longitudinal recess and thereby the position of the neck relative to the body, whereby the height of the strings are adjusted relative to the neck and its fingerboard. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100024623 | APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING NECK ANGLE OF GUITAR - Disclosed is an apparatus for adjusting a neck angle of a guitar. The apparatus comprises a support block having a receiving groove into which the neck is inserted. The support block is installed inside a lateral plate. A reinforcing plate is installed at bottom of the receiving groove of the support block. The reinforcing plate includes a central plate, a fixed plate fixed to a front face of the support block, and a guide plate guiding rotating of the neck. An adjustment device includes an adjustment bolt inserted into an adjustment hole and a thread portion formed in the adjustment hole of the central plate of the reinforcing plate so as to be thread-fastened with the adjustment bolt. A fixing device includes a fixing bolt inserted into a fixing hole and a fixing nut fixed inside the neck body and thread-fastened with the fixing bolt. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100107849 | Coated Neck Assembly For A Stringed Musical Instrument - Disclosed herein are various systems and methods for providing a neck assembly for a stringed instrument. The neck assembly can include a fingerboard structure having a well configured to receive a light-emitting device and permit light transmission from the light-emitting device to the top surface of the fingerboard structure, the well being located to represent a finger position of the stringed instrument. The neck assembly can further include a wooden neck structure attached to the fingerboard structure and have a lower surface substantially covered with a polymeric coating. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100175533 | HYBRID NECK MOUNT - A musical instrument capable of obtaining direct tone transfer from the neck wood to the body wood as well as dramatically increased resonance sustain. The musical instrument comprises a neck portion having an extended neck tenon running a predetermined distance beyond the area of the fretboard, a body portion having a neck pocket designed to accommodate the extended neck tenon, a neck-to-body joint that combines connecting the body and neck tenon via metal screws through the back of the instrument as well as laminating/hard-gluing the neck to the wooden top of the instrument. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110100191 | NECK JOINT STRUCTURE FOR STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A neck joint structure which has an opening on the main face of a body in the thickness direction, which has openings on the side faces of the body extending in the thickness direction, and into which at least a part of the base-end portion of a neck is inserted is formed in the body of a stringed musical instrument. The neck joint structure includes a recessed end face which is brought into contact with the end face of the base-end portion constituting the base of the neck in the longitudinal direction and a recessed bottom face which is brought into contact with the main contact face of the base-end portion that forms a corner together with the end face in the thickness direction of the neck. The neck joint structure of the stringed musical instrument is equipped with a joint member fixing the body and the neck, i.e. a slanting joint member which is screwed into the body and the neck via the corner between the recessed bottom face and the recessed end face of the body and via the corner between the main contact face and the end face of the neck in the state in which the screwing direction thereof is slanted to the distal end of the neck in the longitudinal direction relative to the thickness direction of the body and the neck. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110113947 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT PRACTICE DEVICE - The present invention extends to handheld practice devices for practicing to play stringed instruments. More specifically, the present invention relates to a practice device that may assist a user in learning how to properly finger and play a stringed musical instrument. A user can hold an elongate handle and place one or more of his or her fingers on strings to practice fingerings that are used to play chords/notes. Real instrument strings can be used, helping to strengthen a user's fingertips and get the fingertips accustomed to holding/pinching the instrument strings. Further, the stringed instrument practice device can be portable and sized to fit within the user's hand. Accordingly, a user can realize advantages of the invention and utilize practice methods while the user is “on the go,” riding on a bus, watching television, waiting in line, etc. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110132171 | 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 of light elements. The fingerboard is adapted to conceal the presence of the light elements when the light elements are not illuminated and to allow the passage of at least some illumination from the light elements when the light elements are illuminated. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110174133 | Headstock for Altering Tonal Quality of a Stringed Instrument - The present invention features a headstock which changes the tonal quality of a stringed instrument. Specifically, the headstock of this invention contains one or more slots thereby generating independently resonating arms to which the strings are anchored. In this regard, the resonance of the string is dependent upon the resonance of the arm. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110226113 | ADJUSTABLE NECK-ANGLE JOINT FOR STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Adjustable neck-angle joint for stringed musical instrument, directed to the technique and the way of joining the neck ( | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110232458 | Guitar with reinforced neck joint resulting in thinner body and heel joint - A metal block that connects the bridge to the neck of a guitar. The block fits into a routed area of the body. The increased strength of the neck joint created by the metal block allows the heel portion of the lap joint where the body overlaps the neck to be considerable thinner then a conventional guitar. The thinner neck joint allows better access to the upper fret registers. Connecting the bridge to the neck joint with the metal body allows for better sustain. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110308373 | LATCH FOR TRAVEL GUITAR WITH HINGED NECK - A folding guitar comprising a guitar body and guitar neck is disclosed. A hinge connects the guitar body to the guitar neck. The hinge is disposed on one side of the guitar body and guitar neck. A latch plate is secured to the other side of one of the guitar body or guitar neck. A catch member is secured to the other side of the other one of the guitar body or guitar neck. The catch member defines a catch member catch surface. A latch arm is pivotally mounted to the latch plate. A hitch arm is pivotally mounted to the latch arm. A securement member mounted on the hitch arm, the securement member think configured to engage the catch member catch surface. The latch arm, hitch arm and latch plate are configured to vary the distance between the securement member and the catch member catch surface. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120011984 | INTERCHANGEABLE STRING INSTRUMENT - A stringed instrument such as an acoustic guitar in which the proximal end of the body of the stringed instrument and the distal end of the neck are configured so that the body and neck are completely interchangeable with other pre-manufactured bodies and necks is described. In one preferred embodiment, the configuration at the proximal end of the body includes a recess which is configured to receive different types of necks whose distal end is in turn configured to fit into the recess. In one embodiment, the necks differ in length as well as in the length of scales on the necks. Also included are kits as well as assemblies of the various components used to construct a stringed instrument according to the different embodiments of the invention. The easy interchangeability of the various types of necks and bodies due to the simplistic design of the instrument combined with limiting the instrument in certain preferred embodiments to three strings offers maximal flexibility to serve the functional and esthetic needs of an intended user. Examples include the need of a child who can start off with a shorter neck and then later exchange the shorter neck of the instrument for a longer neck as the child grows. Other examples include the substitution of a certain shaped body for a differently shaped body. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120073419 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT PRACTICE DEVICE - The present invention extends to handheld practice devices for practicing to play stringed instruments. More specifically, the present invention relates to a practice device that may assist a user in learning how to properly finger and play a stringed musical instrument. A user can hold an elongate handle and place one or more of his or her fingers on strings to practice fingerings that are used to play chords/notes. Real instrument strings can be used, helping to strengthen a user's fingertips and get the fingertips accustomed to holding/pinching the instrument strings. Further, the stringed instrument practice device can be portable and sized to fit within the user's hand. Accordingly, a user can realize advantages of the invention and utilize practice methods while the user is “on the go,” riding on a bus, watching television, waiting in line, etc. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120111174 | Method for manufacturing a neck for a stringed musical instrument - A method of manufacturing a guitar neck for a string instrument includes:
| 05-10-2012 |
| 20120125174 | ACOUSTIC AND SEMI-ACOUSTIC STRINGED INSTRUMENTS HAVING A NECK-TO-BODY JUNCTION - An instrument comprising a neck-to-body junction including a solid upper body portion to which the instrument's neck and fingerboard are attached forming a neck member. The neck member is then engaged with a hollow cavity representative of the lower body an acoustic or semi-acoustic stringed instruments. The upper body portion of the neck member extends into the hollow cavity of the lower body to create a uniform body structure. A carve-out feature is then formed in close proximity to the base of the neck and extends into the underside of the upper body portion. The carve-out comprises a smooth and continuous surface that enables a player's hand to comfortably access higher positions on the instrument's neck when the instrument is played in the normal playing position. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120174730 | Guitar Neck - Some or all, of the surface area of the back neck of a guitar is reduced to for a continuous geometric pattern, with spaced depressions or raised ridges, leaving less surface area for the palm of the hand and/or thumb to contact, thereby reducing or eliminating tackiness so that the grip on the neck can be better controlled. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120192698 | Neck Stiffener for Stringed Musical Instruments - A musical instrument neck stiffener includes a beam fabricated by embedding uni-directional material only at the upper and lower portions of the beam, and constrained by braid or bias weave material. In a preferred embodiment, the uni-directional layers are preferably made from carbon fiber tow, cloth, or pultruded carbon fiber and the braid or bias weave material is made of carbon fibers. To reduce weight, the middle section of the beam is preferably hollow. An angle neck stiffener includes a hollow tube connected to a cradle, which is bonded within an instrument neck. The angle neck stiffener bridges the connection between the instrument neck and a preferably D-shaped neck stiffener. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120240744 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT PRACTICE DEVICE - The present invention extends to practice devices for practicing to play stringed instruments. More specifically, the present invention relates to a practice device that may assist a user in learning how to properly finger and play a stringed musical instrument. A user can hold an elongate handle and place one or more of his or her fingers on strings to practice fingerings that are used to play chords/notes. Real instrument strings can be used, helping to strengthen a user's fingertips and get the fingertips accustomed to holding/pinching the instrument strings. Further, the stringed instrument practice device can be portable and sized to fit within the user's hand. Accordingly, a user can realize advantages of the invention and utilize practice methods while the user is “on the go,” riding on a bus, watching television, waiting in line, etc. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120266734 | Guitar neck - A guitar neck made as a unitary part, including its frets and nut, is provided with a coating of sufficient hardness to resist string wear. Slots arrayed longitudinally along the back of the neck permit the neck to be light in weight, while being made of a material rigid enough to resist warping from string tension. Due to this integral configuration, the neck does not require a trussrod. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20130042740 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTABLY ASSOCIATING TWO COMPONENTS - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for adjustably associating two components such as two components of a stringed instrument. Such invention is particularly well suited for adjusting the action of a guitar and for allowing any one of a plurality of guitar necks to be quickly and easily associated with a guitar body. One embodiment of the invention includes associating a body-plate with a body interface defined by guitar body and configured for being mechanically associated with a neck-plate associated with a guitar neck wherein the body-plate in the neck-plate are movably associated with each other so that the action of the guitar maybe easily adjusted. Another embodiment of the invention utilizes a pintle block and pillow block configuration for providing the same function. Additionally, a method is disclosed for using such apparatus to define a universal body interface and an universal neck interface allowing any one of a plurality of guitar necks to be quickly and easily associated with any one of a plurality of guitar bodies. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130186254 | ERGONOMIC NECK FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENT - A neck construction for a stringed instrument such as a guitar has an asymmetric, preferably trapezoidal, profile of the neck. The asymmetry is opposite at the distal end, depicted in FIG. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130220098 | GUITAR NECK JOINT ROUTING SYSTEM - A guitar neck joint routing system. The system includes a probe and router assembly comprising a gantry, a probe, and a plurality of routers, and a guitar neck and body nest comprising clamps and vacuum grips for holding a guitar neck and guitar body in place for taking measurements and routing a dovetail joint. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130291704 | Tubular Metal Neck for Stringed Musical Instruments - This invention pertains to the neck for a stringed electronic musical instrument that is constructed of a pipe made of a steel alloy. The instrument has superior sound qualities, has optimal ergonomic properties that fit the natural grip of the human hand, maintains tune under conditions of environmental extremes and mechanical stress, and can be easily manufactured with a high degree of precision and accuracy on a mass scale. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130340591 | Stringed Musical Instrument Having Inlaid Fretboard and Method of Making the Same - A stringed musical instrument comprises a neck and a cavity formed in the neck. The cavity includes a curved bottom surface and a chamfer in a sidewall of the cavity. An island is formed in the cavity. A fretboard is formed comprising a veneer and adapted to fit the cavity. The fretboard includes an opening adapted to encompass the island in the cavity. The cavity or fretboard is formed using a computer-controlled or numerically-controlled milling machine, router, water jet, or laser. The fretboard is mounted within the cavity, and the island in the cavity is disposed within the opening in the fretboard. Mounting the fretboard within the cavity includes flexing a sidewall of the cavity. An edge of the fretboard contacts a sidewall of the cavity without a visible gap. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140109746 | Tubular Neck For A Stringed Instrument - A tubular neck for a stringed instrument is disclosed. The neck includes at least one sound tube having a first end and a second end. The neck further includes at least one resonator tube having a first end and a second end, the at least one resonator tube in mechanical communication with the at least one sound tube wherein said first end of the at least one sound tube overlaps a first end of the at least one resonator tube. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140109747 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT PRACTICE DEVICE - The present invention extends to practice devices for practicing to play stringed instruments. More specifically, the present invention relates to a practice device that may assist a user in learning how to properly finger and play a stringed musical instrument. A user can hold an elongate handle and place one or more of his or her fingers on strings to practice fingerings that are used to play chords/notes. Real instrument strings can be used, helping to strengthen a user's fingertips and get the fingertips accustomed to holding/pinching the instrument strings. Further, the stringed instrument practice device can be portable and sized to fit within the user's hand. Accordingly, a user can realize advantages of the invention and utilize practice methods while the user is “on the go,” riding on a bus, watching television, waiting in line, etc. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140157968 | Guitar neck assembly and process therefor - In a stringed instrument such as a guitar, a fingerboard is slidably engaged with the instrument's neck, preferably by means of flanges that engage with corresponding grooves along the lateral edges of the neck. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140165816 | GUITAR NECK AND BODY ATTACHMENT MECHANISM - An attachment mechanism for selective attachment of a stringed instrument neck to a stringed instrument body includes a recess formed in the body with a first part of a latch mechanism. The neck includes a capture block at a forward end thereof adapted to fit snugly within the recess of the body and having a second part of the latch mechanism. With the neck seated in the recess of the body, the neck may be pressed down until the first part of the lock mechanism engages the second part of the lock mechanism to lock the neck into the body. A threaded bolt traversing the body may be included to engage a threaded aperture formed in the neck to further secure the neck to the body. A removable bridge and carrying case may be further included. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140202305 | Crown Top Bar Fret, Stringed Instrument Including Same, And Method Of Manufacture - Stringed instrument having an elongated neck member optionally including a fingerboard, with a plurality of frets fixedly positioned at predetermined spaced locations along the neck. The frets include a tang and a mushroom shaped crown, each positioned and secured in a corresponding fret slot formed in the neck. The neck member includes a carbon fiber based support member that can be T-shaped. In its method aspects, the neck can be straight and of neutral strain or a desired backbow/underbow or curvature in the elongated neck member is created, such as by introducing a carbon fiber T-bar support member in the neck member in a “neutral” state while clamping the neck member in an underbow shape, or forming underbow directly into the finished neck in which a carbon fiber T-bar is already present, and then introducing crown bar style frets to wedge the neck back to an optimum playable shape. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140251111 | TRUSS RODS - A truss rod for use with a neck body of a musical instrument. The truss rod includes a first rod connected to a second rod. An adjustment member is connected to the first rod and configured to exert a longitudinally directed force on the first rod that causes the first rod to move longitudinally with respect to the second rod. This movement exerts a laterally directed force on the second rod that causes the second rod to exert a laterally directed force on the neck body to thereby change the curvature of the neck body. The adjustment member may threadedly engage the first rod and exert the longitudinally directed force on the first rod by threading into or out of the first rod. The adjustment member may also threadedly engage the second rod. Different thread pitches may be used to threadedly engage the adjustment member with the first and second rods. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140260889 | RETRACTABLE STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME - The present invention is directed a retractable stringed musical instrument, and more particularly, to a stringed musical instrument having a tailpiece, a body coupled to the tailpiece, a neck coupled to the body and a fingerboard coupled to the neck. The fingerboard and the neck adjustably extendable and retractable relative to the tailpiece. The retractable stringed instrument further comprises a bridge coupled to the body where the bridge vertically movable upon retraction of the fingerboard and the neck to enable the fingerboard to move over the bridge. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140298970 | ADJUSTABLE NECK STIFFENER FOR STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - An adjustable musical instrument neck stiffener includes a beam fabricated by embedding uni-directional material only at the upper portion of the beam, and constrained by braid or bias weave material. In a preferred embodiment, the uni-directional layers are preferably made from carbon fiber tow, cloth, or pultruded carbon fiber and the braid or bias weave material is made of carbon fibers. To reduce weight, the middle section of the beam is preferably hollow. A threaded rod and threaded sleeve provide a way to adjust the neck stiffener beam curvature so that it is straight while under string tension. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140326124 | Guitar Training Aid - A training aid for playing a stringed instrument of the type having a neck and a fingerboard for assisting an instrument player in the proper placement of the thumb on the back of the instrument neck while playing the instrument, said training aid comprising: (a) a solid piece positioned on the back of the neck of the instrument against which said instrument player's thumb will be positioned; (b) an attachment to the solid piece, wherein said attachment enables said solid piece to be added to the back of the instrument's neck or removed from the back of the instrument's neck. The instrument may be a guitar. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140331846 | GUITAR NECK ADJUSTMENT - A truss rod adjustment device includes a truss rod gear assembly, an adjustment gear assembly and a base. The truss rod gear assembly includes an end shaped to fit in and engage a truss rod wrench socket attached to a neck of a guitar. The adjustment gear assembly includes an adjustment socket shaped to receive and engage a wrench. The base attaches to the neck of the guitar and holds the truss rod gear assembly in position to engage the truss rod wrench socket. The base also holds the adjustment gear assembly in position both to engage the truss rod assembly gear assembly and to position the adjustment socket to be accessible through a hole in a back of the guitar. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140331847 | TRUSS RODS - A truss rod for use with a neck body of a musical instrument. The truss rod includes a first rod connected to a second rod. An adjustment member is connected to the first rod and configured to exert a longitudinally directed force on the first rod that causes the first rod to move longitudinally with respect to the second rod. This movement exerts a laterally directed force on the second rod that causes the second rod to exert a laterally directed force on the neck body to thereby change the curvature of the neck body. The adjustment member may threadedly engage the first rod and exert the longitudinally directed force on the first rod by threading into or out of the first rod. The adjustment member may also threadedly engage the second rod. Different thread pitches may be used to threadedly engage the adjustment member with the first and second rods. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140352517 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT WITH BODY INCLUDING FINGERTIP LOCATING FEATURE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE - A stringed instrument having a body assembly including a fingertip locating feature is disclosed together with methods of manufacturing the instrument. The instrument body is characterized by a bottom surface, a top surface, and a bridge mounting location at the top surface adjacent to a heel end of the body. A neck connection interface end is located opposite the heel end, a string sounding area defined between the interface end and the bridge mounting location. The body assembly has at least a first underpitched feature extending a selected distance between the ends adjacent to the string sounding area. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150302759 | Playing Aid for A Stringed Instrument - A playing aid for a stringed instrument comprises an alignment means arranged in use to be located on the neck of the instrument. The alignment means comprises a linear alignment element arranged in use to extend substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the neck of the instrument. The aid further comprises a glider comprising having a collar arranged to receive a part of the player's hand. The aid further comprises a coupling means arranged to couple the glider slid-ably to the linear alignment element of the alignment means. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150317958 | Stringed Instrument with Fingerboard Support - Embodiments are disclosed that relate a stringed instrument having a fingerboard support disposed between a fingerboard and a neck base. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a body, and a neck structure extending from the body, the neck structure comprising a neck base, a fingerboard support coupled with the neck base, and a fingerboard coupled with the fingerboard support, wherein the fingerboard support comprises a support surface configured to contact an underside of the fingerboard and a raised side that at least partially covers a lateral side of the fingerboard. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150317959 | GUITAR NECK JOINT - A neck joint for guitars providing a secure joint with tight mechanical bonding that can be removable and maintainable. It is configurable so that it is adjustable in two directions to accommodate variations in string height and neck angle. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150348518 | Device and method for cushioning the neck of a stringed instrument - A stringed instrument can be manufactured with a neck that contains a back-side soft surface layer and optionally also a front-side soft surface layer, whereby the soft surface layers can increase comfort and enjoyment, and prevent, reduce or alleviate injury during play of the instrument. Alternatively, a stringed instrument can be retrofitted with an installable soft surface component, which can be fitted on top of the surface of the back-side of the neck of the stringed instrument. Further disclosed is a method of using a neck mounted soft surface layer with a stringed instrument. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160027415 | NECK ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM FOR STRING INSTRUMENT - An adjustment mechanism for a stringed instrument in which the stringed instrument comprises a guitar body, a bridge supported by the guitar body, a saddle affixed to the bridge, a neck pivotably coupled to the guitar body, a fretboard supported by the neck, a nut affixed to the neck adjacent a headstock, and a plurality of strings extending between the nut and the saddle. The nut substantially forms a pivot axis for at least the fretboard, and a heel end of at least the fretboard is pivotably about the pivot axis, via an adjustment mechanism, for adjusting an action of the strings. A method of adjusting string action of a stringed instrument is also disclosed. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160055835 | ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENT WITH NECK THROUGH BODY - An acoustic string instrument is provided that includes a headstock formed at a distal end of a neck. The headstock and the neck are formed with a plurality of laminated material strips. A heel is formed at the proximal end of the neck. The heel is fixedly attached to a hollow body having a bottom surface joined to a top surface by a sidewall defining an inner volume. A pair of opposing outer strips from the plurality of laminated material extend past the heel to form an “A” brace in the inner volume, where the “A” brace has a plurality of apertures and an integrated bridge post that extends between the bottom surface and an inner side of the top surface of the hollow body. One or more transverse braces are fixedly attached to the inner side of the top surface, where each of the one or more transverse braces crosses through the plurality of apertures of the “A” brace without touching the “A” brace. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160118027 | HEADSTOCK FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENT - A headstock for use with a stringed instrument. The headstock includes saddle receiving recesses which are positioned proximate openings which extend through a first surface of the headstock toward a second surface of the headstock. Saddles are positioned in the saddle receiving recesses. The saddles extend past the first surface in a direction away from the second surface, wherein the saddles and saddle receiving recesses cooperate with strings of the stringed instrument to direct the path of the strings. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160196807 | Adjustable Zero Fret and Method of Use on a Stringed Instrument | 07-07-2016 |
