Music – Instruments – Stringed
Patent
1997-03-04
1998-12-08
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Music
Instruments
Stringed
84315, G10D 306
Patent
active
058472983
ABSTRACT:
A guitar includes a guitar body having a bridge, and an elongated neck having a first end connected to the guitar body and a second end joined to a head having a series of tuning pegs. A plurality of vibratable musical strings is stretched along the length of the neck between the tuning pegs and the bridge. A plurality of longitudinally spaced frets is fixedly mounted on the neck in spaced relationship beneath the strings. Each of the strings is adapted to be depressed against any one of the frets to produce a note of a particular pitch. The interval between a first note associated with one fret and a second note with the same name associated with another fret defines at least one octave unit. A fret attachment is disposed upon the guitar body between the first end of the neck and the bridge and is spaced beneath at least one of the strings. The fret attachment cooperates with at least one of the strings to define an additional octave level at which a third note sounds substantially identical to the second note at a higher pitch.
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Hsieh Shih-yung
Shoop Jr. William M.
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