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公开(公告)号:US11705093B1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-18
申请号:US17751529
申请日:2022-05-23
申请人: Eric E. Burch
发明人: Eric E. Burch
IPC分类号: G10D3/14
CPC分类号: G10D3/14
摘要: A flip tuning levers device that does not put added stress on a plurality of guitar strings to get them out of tune. The flip tuning levers device includes a plurality of levers, a plurality of vertical shafts, a plurality of shims, a horizontal shaft, and a base plate. The levers each include a handle, a rotating pin joint, and an upside-down cylindrical-shaped indentation. The base plate includes a plurality of apertures that include a first set of apertures that accommodate receiving a plurality of fasteners and a second set of apertures that accommodate receiving the distal ends of each of the vertical shafts, the first set of apertures correspond with a plurality of preexisting holes disposed on a headstock of the guitar. The flip tuning levers device is made from a three-dimensional printer for accuracy and cost-reduction or is made of titanium for strength and ease of fabrication.
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公开(公告)号:US20230222996A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-13
申请号:US18182499
申请日:2023-03-13
申请人: Sudipta Singh
发明人: Sudipta Singh
摘要: A modular and customizable construction for a guitar is disclosed. The construction may include a substantially flat metal guitar base plate that couples to interchangeable guitar components, such as a guitar body, a fretboard, and guitar string tuners. Further provided is a moveable nut that is used to adjust guitar string scale length via nut blocks that are separately adjustable relative to one another. Even further provided is a computer program product that allows for development of custom fingerboards that cater to a specific player's requirements and are optimized for alternative tunings and temperaments.
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公开(公告)号:US11443722B2
公开(公告)日:2022-09-13
申请号:US17471287
申请日:2021-09-10
申请人: Ciari Guitars, Inc.
摘要: A foldable stringed instrument, for example in the form of a travel guitar that folds mid-neck to assume a reduced profile is described. The mid-neck folding is accomplished in a symmetrical manner about a three-part hinge located in the neck to configure the travel guitar into a reduced profile. The bridge assembly can be translated longitudinally relative to the head of the guitar to allow sufficient detensioning of the guitar strings to enable an upper portion of the neck to be folded away from a lower portion of the neck and/or body to assume a reduced profile. To deploy the travel guitar for playing, the upper portion of the neck is unfolded into alignment with the lower portion of the neck and/or body, and the bridge assembly translated longitudinally relative to the head and locked in position to allow the guitar to be tuned for playing.
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公开(公告)号:US11127381B2
公开(公告)日:2021-09-21
申请号:US16967770
申请日:2019-02-04
申请人: Josefin Fredén , Samuel Fredén
发明人: Josefin Fredén , Samuel Fredén
摘要: The present invention relates to a converter arrangement (1) for increasing the number of strings on a string instrument, the converter arrangement comprising; a frame (20) with a base plate (21) and a head (30) with string adjustment screws (31); additional strings (2) attached to the base plate (21) and extending to the head (30) where the strings (2) terminate at the adjustment screws (31) which allow the additional strings (2) to be tuned; means (102) for releasably attaching the converter arrangement to the string side on the string instrument. The present invention also relates to a method for applying the converter arrangement (1) to a string instrument.
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公开(公告)号:US11120776B2
公开(公告)日:2021-09-14
申请号:US16757353
申请日:2018-10-19
申请人: Ciari Guitars, Inc.
摘要: A foldable stringed instrument, for example in the form of a travel guitar that folds mid-neck to assume a reduced profile is described. The mid-neck folding is accomplished in a symmetrical manner about a three-part hinge located in the neck to configure the travel guitar into a reduced profile. The bridge assembly can be translated longitudinally relative to the head of the guitar to allow sufficient de-tensioning of the guitar strings to enable an upper portion of the neck to be folded away from a lower portion of the neck and/or body to assume a reduced profile. To deploy the travel guitar for playing, the upper portion of the neck is unfolded into alignment with the lower portion of the neck and/or body, and the bridge assembly translated longitudinally relative to the head and locked in position to allow the guitar to be tuned for playing.
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公开(公告)号:US20200227011A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-16
申请号:US16740558
申请日:2020-01-13
摘要: A low friction tuner for use on stringed musical instruments is described in this application. The low friction tuner transfers the force of string tension from an area between the shoulder of the tuning knob and the tuner housing to a an area between a pointed tuning screw and bearing carrier, reducing the amount of force needed to turn the tuning knob when the string is under tension.
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公开(公告)号:US10586517B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-10
申请号:US16213271
申请日:2018-12-07
申请人: Jay S. Dickinson
发明人: Jay S. Dickinson
摘要: An intonation system for a stringed musical instrument, a stringed instrument including the intonation system, and a method of setting up a stringed instrument. An instrument such as a guitar includes a bridge having bridge string saddles that can be adjusted separately to raise or lower a single string and to adjust the position of the bridge end of the vibrating length of the string. The instrument also includes an adjustable nut assembly by which to adjust the position of the nut end of each string individually. The structures by which the string saddle positions are adjusted are substantially concealed, largely retaining a conventional appearance of the musical instrument.
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公开(公告)号:US10475422B1
公开(公告)日:2019-11-12
申请号:US16261570
申请日:2019-01-30
申请人: Meister Works, Inc.
发明人: Shinjiro Hirayama
摘要: The angle adjustment structure of intonation tools for guitar bridges which have fine tuners. There are intonation tools for guitar bridges which have fine tuners like U.S. Pat. No. 4,497,236, but these bridges have some patterns of baseplate portion, so it is difficult to match to some patterns of baseplate portion by one intonation tool. This invention makes the intonation tool capable of matching to some patterns of baseplate portion by giving angle adjustment structure.
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公开(公告)号:US10475421B1
公开(公告)日:2019-11-12
申请号:US16224774
申请日:2018-12-18
发明人: Tsan-Hong Chung
摘要: An adjusting member is pivoted on a sound post to adjust a length of the sound post from the outside of the sound box of a musical instrument. The adjusting member comprises a main body and at least one adjusting arm arranged on the main body. Through the sound post provided with the adjusting member, a user can easily adjust the tightness of the sound post against the upper and lower plates of the sound box through a hole of the sound box, such as F sound hole, connected with the outside to achieve the effect of adjusting timbre of the musical instrument.
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公开(公告)号:US10467994B2
公开(公告)日:2019-11-05
申请号:US15875877
申请日:2018-01-19
申请人: David Jackson
发明人: David Jackson
IPC分类号: G10D3/14
摘要: Disclosed are apparatus and related methods for adjusting the pitch of a string on a stringed instrument. In one embodiment, the disclosed devices enable a musician to adjust the tautness and, accordingly, the pitch of individual strings of a stringed instrument by simply pushing a lever or rotating a threaded piston or on or adjacent to the bridge of the guitar. The disclosed devices can preferably be outfitted on electric or acoustic stringed instruments, including guitars. The more specific aspects of the preferred embodiments are discussed in greater detail with reference to the figures.
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