Music – Instruments – Stringed
Patent
1998-04-07
1999-12-21
Nappi, Robert E.
Music
Instruments
Stringed
84328, 84421, 84453, G10D 300
Patent
active
060051752
ABSTRACT:
A guitar fulcrum is described herein which is used as an elbow rest for the elbow of a right or a left arm of a guitar player when playing a guitar. A standard guitar is designed for a person having an average height of 5 feet 10 inches. The fulcrum is designed for guitar players having a height greater than 5 feet 10 inches and/or with longer forearms and longer hands than people of this height. The guitar fulcrum allows for the proper placement of the player's fingers on the guitar strings adjacent a sweet spot above the sound hole of the guitar. Also, the guitar fulcrum positions the wrist lower than the elbow in a passive position. The passive position of the wrist relieves muscular tension produced in the forearm when having to hold up the hand in an active position. The guitar fulcrum includes an ergonomically designed elbow pad adapted for comfortably engaging a portion of the user's elbow. The elbow pad is pivotly mounted on upper ends of a pair of adjustable struts. The struts are used to adjust the height of the elbow pad above a hip of the body of the guitar. Lower ends of the two struts are attached to either suction cups or clamps used to secure the guitar fulcrum to the side of the guitar body. The fulcrum may also include an adjustment plate attached to the underside of the elbow pad and the upper ends of the strut. The adjustment plate allows for adjustment of the elbow pad on the guitar.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5069103 (1991-12-01), Healy
patent: 5781935 (1998-07-01), Bassett et al.
Crabtree Edwin H.
Fletcher Marlon
Margolis Donald W.
Nappi Robert E.
Pizarro Ramon L.
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