Music – Instruments – Stringed
Patent
1998-09-25
2000-03-14
Donels, Jeffrey
Music
Instruments
Stringed
84314R, G10D 300
Patent
active
060375329
ABSTRACT:
A stringed musical instrument having an elongate neck and a body which may have a resonant cavity at one end and a head at the other end thereof. Strings extend across the neck and, when vibrated, generate musical sounds. The invention relies upon fingerboards which are removable so that a fingerboard can easily be repaired and replaced, or otherwise so that one fingerboard may be substitutable for another type of fingerboard in order to generate sounds of different timber or of different qualities. In a preferred embodiment, fretted fingerboards are substitutable for non-fretted fingerboards. Moreover, and in a preferred embodiment, the fingerboards are slid into and out of slots having beveled edges in the neck of the instrument. By using double beveled slots, that is, a first bevel relative to the thickness of the fingerboard, and a second bevel relative to the transverse dimension of the fingerboard, the fingerboard can be slid into a slot from one side of the neck and will precisely lie in proper marginal registration on that neck. Other types of attachment mechanisms for holding the fingerboard on the neck are also provided. Depending upon the material of construction of the musical instrument, and which is usually wood, the neck may be reinforced by a reinforcing member extending through the neck and into the head and the body.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4132143 (1979-01-01), Stone
patent: 4137813 (1979-02-01), Stone et al.
Donels Jeffrey
Schaap Robert J.
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