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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7304232 | Joystick gain control for dual independent audio signals A joystick control (20) mounted on the body (12) of an electric guitar (11) adjacent to the customarily picked section of the strings (16) provides convenient simultaneous independent gain control of two pickup signals. A pick may be held... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7285716 | Automated stringed instrument player An automated player for stringed instruments having a plucking mechanism and a fretting mechanism. The plucking mechanism includes a string contacting portion rotationally mounted relative to a corresponding instrument string with a rotational axis substantially per... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7060888 | Movable stringed instrument pickup system A pivoting electromagnetic pickup device is provided. The invention generally is comprised of an elongated support structure, an electromagnetic pickup, a pivoting means, and an angular position locking means. The extremity of the elongated support structure is pivo... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7049504 | Tremolex An electronic tremolo producing apparatus for stringed electronic musical instrument is provided. The tremolo apparatus includes an electronic base unit mounted on the instrument with an attached tremolo arm. The base unit and the tremolo arm are designed to be moun... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6384311 | Guitar having tremolo device on each string thereof A stringed instrument comprises, in combination, a body with a neck extending forwardly therefrom The neck has a tuning portion mounted opposite the body which is adapted to receive one end of a plurality of strings. The tuning portion adjusts the tension... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6198036 | Electric guitar tremolo bridge piezo pickup An electric guitar which is equipped with a piezo pickup wherein the lengths of the strings are not changed by the rotation of the main saddle body in connection with fine tuning and during tremolo performance. The electric guitar has a piezo pickup and h... | 03/06/2001 |
| 5848166 | Hybrid electronic and electromechanical device for the production of tremulant sound An audio tremolo producing system uses a rotating horn as a tremolo producing device for mid and high frequency audio signals, and an electronic tremolo producing device capable of both phase and amplitude modulation for low frequency signals.... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5631435 | Electro-mechanical tremolo apparatus for an electric guitar In a first embodiment, a columnated light beam is transmitted to a lens aperture of continuously variable size. The lens aperture is coupled to the tremolo arm of a solid body electric guitar. Light from the lens aperture is focussed upon a photosensitive... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5099742 | Electronic musical instrument having string bending effect Apparatus for altering the output of an electronic string musical instrum responsive to bending of the string comprises a compressible electrically conductive member which has an electrical resistance which varies with the degree of compression applied a... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5085119 | Guitar-style synthesizer-controllers An instrument is structured as a guitar and control-box incorporating electronic circuitry to control an external electronic synthesizer and electronic sampling instruments via a conventional M.I.D.I. system. The instrument is played in the fashion of a g... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5085120 | Electronic stringed musical instrument with parameter selecting function An electronic musical instrument having a function of selecting a musical tone parameter just before, or after during a musical performance is provided. The instrument has a first manually operable element such as a tremolo arm deflectably mounted on the ... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5001960 | Apparatus for controlling reproduction on pitch variation of an input waveform signal An input waveform signal representing, for example, a string oscillation is input to a pitch extraction circuit. The pitch extraction circuit extracts a pitch frequency from the input waveform signal, and this pitch frequency is input to a RAM connected t... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4706537 | Tone signal generation device Waveshapes of plural periods for plural channels having characteristics different from each other are stored in a waveshape memory and read out from it when a musical tone is to be produced. Read out waveshapes are respectively weighted by weighting data ... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4516462 | Tremolo and electronic control device for stringed instruments A device for controlling tremolo effects and electronic sound effects in an electric stringed instrument, which comprises; manipulable means communicating with, and capable of providing control of, means for producing tremolo effects. A portion of the manipula... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4261240 | Oscillating electromagnetic transducer for generating tremolo An electromagnetic pickup for stringed instruments such as a guitar includes a pickup coil that is mechanically oscillated at variable frequencies in the field of the magnetically polarized instrument strings for producing an effective tremolo output sign... | 04/14/1981 |
