Patents Assigned to Things 4 Strings LLC
  • Patent number: 8273973
    Abstract: Training devices for facilitating proper bow holds on bow sticks of bowed stringed instruments. An exemplary training device may include a fingers stabilizer having a body with one or more thumb opening walls that define a thumb opening in the body. The thumb opening walls and/or the thumb opening may guide a thumb to the bow stick and position an end of the thumb at an approximate intersection of a bow stick frog and a bow stick shaft. The body may also include a finger separator that helps position an index finger and a middle finger on the bow stick. The fingers stabilizer may also have contact areas for positioning a ring finger and a pinky finger on the bow stick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Things 4 Strings, LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Kimmons, Martha Brons
  • Publication number: 20110094365
    Abstract: Training devices for facilitating proper bow holds on bow sticks of bowed stringed instruments. An exemplary training device may include a fingers stabilizer having a body with one or more thumb opening walls that define a thumb opening in the body. The thumb opening walls and/or the thumb opening may guide a thumb to the bow stick and position an end of the thumb at an approximate intersection of a bow stick frog and a bow stick shaft. The body may also include a finger separator that helps position an index finger and a middle finger on the bow stick. The fingers stabilizer may also have contact areas for positioning a ring finger and a pinky finger on the bow stick.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: THINGS 4 STRINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Kimmons, Martha Brons
  • Patent number: D650828
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Things 4 Strings LLC
    Inventor: Ruth Kimmons
  • Patent number: D650829
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Things 4 Strings LLC
    Inventor: Ruth Kimmons
  • Patent number: D650830
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Things 4 Strings LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Kimmons, Martha Brons