Class 84/291 - Bodies

Subclass of Class 84 - Music
Definition: Hollow resonance-bodies for instruments having a neck.
No. of patents: 384
Last issue date: 05/29/2012

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Number	Title	Issue Date
8188353	Guitar sound hole guard and methodology of application A guitar sound hole guard comprising of a body of a suitable durable material to resist pick impacts and having a lip and at least one flange; the lip further having two side edges; each flange connects to a respective side edge to be oriented perpendicular to the l...	05/29/2012
8138403	Brace for stringed instrument A new and improved body and bridge bracing system for stringed musical instruments includes an bracing system that consists of an upper brace located in the upper body of the instrument's body and a lower brace located in the lower body. Two or more longitudinal bra...	03/20/2012
8138404	Strip inlay products, and methods of making Decorative strip inlay products. Strip inlay products are used at the outer edges of stringed instruments, about the sound aperture and inwardly of the edges. Products of the invention are laser cut in the top surface of a workpiece. A bottom portion of the workpiec...	03/20/2012
8119891	Flexible support member for musical instruments, furniture, and objects fabricated from wood and method of manufacturing the same A wood support member for attaching a first wood member to a wood side structure defining an interior peripheral edge, the wood support member is attachable to the peripheral edge, comprising a top, a bottom, a first end, a second end, a front face and a rear face. ...	02/21/2012
RE42769	Guitar body reinforcement A support for a body of a stringed instrument includes a brace structure having a plurality of legs radially disposed about a central body. The brace structure has a substantially flat first surface. A portion of the plurality of legs conforms to a soundhole opening...	10/04/2011
8008558	Focused input stringed instrument The invention is a stringed instrument having string vibrations transmitted through a bridge directly to an interaction region of a soundboard, to the exclusion of vibrations via other paths. ...	08/30/2011
RE42630	Guitar body reinforcement A support for a body of a stringed instrument includes a brace structure having a plurality of legs radially disposed about a central body. The brace structure has a substantially flat first surface. A portion of the plurality of legs conforms to a soundhole opening...	08/23/2011
7977555	Method of modifying the frequency response of a wooden article Disclosed is a method for modifying the frequency response of a wooden article by exciting the article with acoustic energy. Frequency response is the measure of a system's spectrum response at the output due to a signal of varying frequency (but constant amplitude)...	07/12/2011
7915505	Musical instrument A musical instrument is provided. The instrument is light weight and portable. The instrument includes electrical pickup capabilities but also has the feel of an acoustic instrument. The instrument can be folded to an arrangement that is easy for transport. The fold...	03/29/2011
7893330	Stringed instrument construction An ergonomic guitar wherein the plane of the strings is shifted toward the player as a result of its overall construction. It includes a guitar body having a center spine region in the form of an open-top channel. The guitar neck is advantageously fitted and clamped...	02/22/2011
7842867	Internally-mounted soundhole interfacing device Disclosed is a device for improving the tonal characteristics of a stringed instrument. This has been accomplished using a device that interfaces acoustically with the soundhole. The device inhabits space where sound energy waves tend to interfere and redirects the ...	11/30/2010
7790970	Stringed instrument braces with transverse openings In accordance with the invention, a sound box for an instrument is provided exhibiting a 3-D bracing system. The bracing system comprises a plurality of braces on both the sound board and the bottom board of the sound box. The braces exhibit varying heights and conf...	09/07/2010
7786361	Wood on graphite layup instruments A wood on graphite layup instrument includes a soundboard, reinforced bridge, and neck made of reinforced plies of graphite fibers. The outer surface of the instrument is adorned with a wood veneer for a finished look that resembles a traditional instrument, such as...	08/31/2010
7763784	Stringed musical instruments and methods of making thereof An improved stringed musical instrument includes a unitary shell having a head, a neck and a body. The unitary shell has an asymmetrical waist having a substantially flat side and a substantially concave side. The instrument also includes a soundboard configured to ...	07/27/2010
7759566	Tailoring critical properties of wood-mass, lateral and transverse stiffness, and damping-for use in musical instruments Optimized tone wood for acoustical performance and methods for optimizing tone wood are described. The longitudinal to cross-grain stiffness ratio, the acoustical mass, and damping of tone wood are adjusted to improve volume and quality of tonal output. These proper...	07/20/2010
7737349	Decorating guitars Apparatus and methods of decorating guitars and other stringed musical instruments are disclosed. In one aspect, a method may include UV printing a first portion of a decoration over a first region of at least part of a guitar using a first ink drop size, and UV pri...	06/15/2010
7687697	Sound panel for playing sounds and music, and method for manufacturing such panel A sound panel for playing sounds and music, comprising a substantially flat soundboard made of wood, at least one tie which is fitted to the soundboard in order to subject the soundboard to a mechanical tension, an electromechanical transducer which is mounted on th...	03/30/2010
7678978	Guitar body reinforcement A support for a body of a stringed instrument includes a brace structure having a plurality of legs radially disposed about a central body. The brace structure has a substantially flat first surface. A portion of the plurality of legs conforms to a soundhole opening...	03/16/2010
7671260	Component of musical instrument, musical instrument and production method of the same A production method of a musical instrument and its components (parts, materials or the like), a musical instrument and its components obtained in accordance with the methods that can achieve the effect of increased sound quality of the musical instrument because of...	03/02/2010
7598444	Molded stringed instrument body with wooden core A stringed musical instrument body is formed using injection molded high density polystyrene foam with a foaming agent. It is injection molded by itself or around a wooden core to make the body or to form two panels adhered together to sandwich a wooden core therebe...	10/06/2009
7579533	Head assembly for string instruments and method for manufacturing string instruments A stringed instrument and a method of forming the stringed instrument are provided. The instrument includes a head assembly having individually and continuously adjustable nuts for varying the height each string. The head assembly also provides simple and reliable t...	08/25/2009
7579534	Ported bevel for musical instrument and method for making the same In a musical instrument, such as a flat top guitar, having a sound chamber defined by a back, sides, and a soundboard, a beveled portion is generally placed in the bass side of the lower bout of the instrument. The beveled portion has one or more openings, or flutes...	08/25/2009
7550660	Stringed instrument construction An improved hollow-bodied stringed instrument body having a substantially free edge in the lower bout which reduces the coupling of the resonances of the front plate, back plate, and enclosed volume of air. A selected number of holes of a selected shape create a sub...	06/23/2009
7544872	Guitars A guitar or guitar-like instrument includes a wooden neck and a body made of metal, the body being substantially hollow and having a plurality of holes therein. There are at least 10 holes in the body. A guitar or guitar-like instrument can include a neck of wood, a...	06/09/2009
7531728	Electric guitar Electric guitar with a neck and a body which has a first side wall, facing the guitar player, and a second side wall, facing away from the guitar player, said side walls delimiting a front and a back of the body at the edges, wherein the second side wall has an asso...	05/12/2009
7518048	Neck and body attachments for stringed musical instruments An improved system and method for connecting separate neck and body portions of a stringed musical instrument, preferably an electric guitar, are provided. The neck and body portions are connected together via a support bracket having multiple planes with screws, bo...	04/14/2009
7514614	Electro-acoustic guitar The present invention teaches an electro-acoustic guitar having an isolated resonant soundboard with or without an integrated transducer attached to the soundboard. The soundboard/transducer assembly fits into an aperture of the guitar body frame and has structure a...	04/07/2009
7511207	Twelve piece soundboard for stringed musical instruments A new sound board construction for the stringed musical instrument is provided. The sound board comprises 12 wedge shaped, flat wooden pieces joined at the center and along the edges between adjacent pieces. Bracing is provided behind the joints between the wedge pi...	03/31/2009
7507886	String instruments A stringed instrument including an arm extending besides the strings from the body to the headstock such that said arm supports the tensions of the tuned strings, thereby eliminating the need for a neck to support this tension, and allowing for the use of fingerboar...	03/24/2009
7507885	Structure for musical instrument body A structure for a musical instrument body that limits vibration of various components or parts of the body while controlling and providing for overall resonance of the instrument. The structure is suitable for use with a musical instrument, specifically an electric ...	03/24/2009
7498497	Body structure of stringed instrument A body structure of a stringed instrument is designed to reduce weight and to improve sound quality with respect to a solid body, which is constituted by a core material and a pair of decorative boards, wherein the core material is composed of a single material havi...	03/03/2009
7482518	High density sound enhancing components for stringed musical instruments The present invention provides a system for producing vibratical unification of components of a musical instrument comprised of a soundboard, a plurality of strings, a bridge system, a neck, and a body. The system acoustically interconnects the major sound component...	01/27/2009
7473831	Guitar with dual sound boards A stringed musical instrument having a back, a side and a first sound board that form a sound box. The back, side and first sound board further define an enclosed resonant cavity within the sound box. A bridge is positioned on the surface of the first sound board on...	01/06/2009
7462767	Stringed musical instrument tension balancer A device and method for balancing the torque created by strings on musical instruments includes a bracket attached to the bottom of the bridge, an adjustable brace attached to the neck and residing within the body of the instrument and a tension string connecting th...	12/09/2008
7449624	Ergonomic classical guitar The sound box includes two truncated portions (1 and 4) for enabling the body to take up a better position in order to avoid certain pathologies induced by playing the instrument as it currently exists. ...	11/11/2008
7446247	Suspended bracing system for acoustic musical instruments A suspended bracing system is disclosed that allows the sound board of an acoustic instrument, such as a guitar, to vibrate more. As a result, the instrument projects more tone and volume than that provided by conventional guitar sound boards. Conventional sound boa...	11/04/2008
7439427	Guitar body reinforcement A support for a body of a stringed instrument includes a brace structure having a plurality of legs radially disposed about a central body. The brace structure has a substantially flat first surface. A portion of the plurality of legs conforms to a soundhole opening...	10/21/2008
7411121	String energy transference for stringed musical instruments A guitar or applicable musical instrument is improved to enhance string energy through integration of side materials and structural spanners to maintain the integrity of the instrument under load of string tension. The invention improves ampliphonic efficiency by pr...	08/12/2008
7394015	Pickup device for plucked string instrument and plucked string instrument A pickup device (11) sandwiched between strings (3) and a top (4) of a body in a plucked string instrument comprises: a saddle (16) transmitting vibrations of the strings (3) to the body; and a bridge (25) fixedly attached o...	07/01/2008
7385125	Electric string instruments and string instrument systems Marching band string instruments and wearable string instruments are described that include a stiff waist band to prevent excessive side to side movement during use, while providing easy doff and don of the string instrument. String instruments also are provided wit...	06/10/2008

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