Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1992-01-17
1993-11-09
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84312R, 84313, G10D 314, G10H 318
Patent
active
052605116
ABSTRACT:
A stringed instrument comprising a body and a neck, the neck having a fingerboard and a headstock and being mounted on the body and also including relatively high frets on the fingerboard. Tuning machines are mounted on the headstock and a vibrato bridge unit is mounted on the body. Strings urge the vibrato bridge unit into a quiescent, non-vibrato position. Strings are mounted between the tuning machines and the vibrato bridge unit. Strings are mounted between the tuning machines in the vibrato bridge unit, the neck having approximately a fourteen inch scale length and the strings being tuned like a violin to the notes G, D, A and E. A pick-up arrangement is mounted on the body, preferably having pole pieces which confront the strings.
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