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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7285709 | Modular automated assistive guitar A modular automated assistive guitar is described comprising a base assembly, a pick assembly, a strumming mechanism and a fretting mechanism which, in combination with a standard guitar or similar stringed musical instrument (e.g., banjo, steel guitar, ukulele), fo... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7276657 | Maximized sound pickup switching apparatus for a string instrument having a plurality of sound pickups A sound pickup switching system for an electric string instrument which has at least two pickup coils and a multi-position selector switch, includes a switch matrix with a plurality of switches in it connected to the pickup coils. The switch matrix electrically inte... | 10/02/2007 |
| 6967270 | Strummable electric harpsichord A musical instrument includes a plurality of strings and a plurality of pluckers. The strings are tuned in an ascending sequence, such as a chromatic sequence. The pluckers are associated with a different one of the plurality of strings and are adapted to pluck the ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 5380948 | Musical stringed instrument capable of being played with one hand A musical stringed instrument including a control circuit that provides a means for playing with one hand. The control circuit is either integral with or external to the musical stringed instrument. One hand operation is accomplished by selectively bringi... | 01/10/1995 |
| 4684371 | Oxidation hair dyes comprising m-phenylenediamine derivatives as coupling components This invention is directed to m-phenylenediamine derivatives and salts thereof and to compositions of the developer-coupler type of the dyeing of hair, consisting essentially of m-phenylenediamine derivatives or salts thereof as coupling components and, a... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4534262 | Safety mooring line An improved safety mooring line of the type having an inner high stretch ety line and an outer high strength, low elongate synthetic fiber strength member also has an armor layer of a high strength, heat resistant synthetic fiber material braided over th... | 08/13/1985 |
