Abstract: An acoustic guitar top includes a sound hole or holes, a neck end that is configured for attachment to a guitar neck with a longitudinal axis, a heel end, a transverse axis normal to the longitudinal axis, a bridge structure for attaching strings to the guitar body, and a bottom surface comprising a bridge plate. The locations of the neck attachment, and the bridge are translated away from the geographic centerline of the guitar toward the treble side of the instrument. The bottom surface of the guitar top includes finger braces of varying length to transmit vibrations from specific areas on the bridge plate of the guitar to specific areas of the guitar top.

Abstract: The invention provides a stringed musical instrument comprising a guitar-type hollow body, a neck joined to the hollow body, and a banjo-type pot comprising a rim, a head and a tension hoop, positioned within a first interior chamber within the hollow body. The rim and head define a second interior chamber within the banjo-type pot. The banjo-type pot is affixed to a back surface of the hollow body such that the head of the banjo-type pot is proximal to a front surface of the hollow body and distal to the back surface of the hollow body. The banjo-type pot is positioned within the first interior chamber to form a path for sound waves generated by the head to travel from a second interior chamber within the banjo-type pot through the first interior chamber and out of at least one opening provided on the front surface of the hollow body.

Abstract: A sound-hole cover includes a frame member, insert member, and foam spring members. The frame member has a rim and a front surface that is recessed from the rim. The frame member also has a plurality of spring-loaded orifices and a back surface of the frame member has a plurality of spring member holders opening radially outwardly from a center point of the frame member. An insert member has a planar front surface and a plurality of pegs, each peg corresponding to one of the spring-loaded orifices such that when the pegs are inserted into the spring-loaded orifices, the insert member remains on the frame member within the rim. There are foam spring members, each foam spring member is held by a corresponding spring member holder of the frame member. The foam spring members removably hold the sound-hole cover within a sound-hole of a musical instrument.

Abstract: A double necked electric guitar/bass that can be divided into two separate autonomous guitars/basses. The division is possible due to the special guitar/bass body composed of two individual bodies, mate and held together by screws or clips. Such an invention provides multiple “3 in 1” uses: a) Double Neck Guitar/Bass, b) A separate instrument only with the first neck, and c) A separate instrument only with the second neck.

Abstract: An electrically amplified stringed instrument including an elongated stringed arrangement including a first end and a second end having a first string device including a first set of strings extending between the first end and the second end of the stringed arrangement and a second string device including a second set of strings extending between the first end and the second end of the stringed arrangement, where the first string device and the second string device are arranged substantially side by side so that a cross section of at least some of the strings of the first set of strings increases towards the second string device and so that a cross section of at least some of the strings of the second set of strings increases towards the first string device, the first string device including at least one first amplifying means arranged at the first end of the elongated stringed arrangement and the second string device including at least one second amplifying means arranged at the second end of the elongated s

Abstract: The inventive device described in the application is a novel musical instrument. The Fuccion is designed to be primarily played as a bass and a guitar simultaneously. This will provide the user with the ability to play music within a band or performance both as bass and as guitar. The Fuccion goes beyond just combining two different instruments because the final result it is in fact a novel concept. The Fuccion is a 10 String Instrument having a 6 string guitar formation above a 4 string base formation designed to play both parts simultaneously. This is due to the innovative body design which situates the necks in this unique staggered position allowing the right hand to both strum the guitar with the thumb and hammer out the bass notes with four fingers. Both necks are reachable in a single hand span. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.

Abstract: A stringed musical instrument with a guitar-banjo combination sound is an apparatus that is designed to be played in the same manner as a typical guitar but is also designed to be more portable than a typical guitar. The apparatus includes a sound box coupled to a guitar neck, which allows a plurality of strings to tensioned and connected along the apparatus. The sound box is configured to produce the guitar-banjo combination sound. The sound box includes a stretched membrane, a pot chamber, a channel, and a sound chamber. The stretched membrane is perimetrically connected around the pot chamber and is used to create the banjo portion of the apparatus's sound. stretched membrane resonates the air within the pot chamber, whose sound waves travel through the channel in order to be modified by the sound chamber. A bridge is used to connect the plurality of strings to the stretched membrane.

Abstract: A stringed musical instrument with a guitar-banjo combination sound is an apparatus that is designed to be played in the same manner as a typical guitar but is also designed to be more portable than a typical guitar. The apparatus includes a sound box coupled to a guitar neck, which allows a plurality of strings to tensioned and connected along the apparatus. The sound box is configured to produce the guitar-banjo combination sound. The sound box includes a stretched membrane, a pot chamber, a channel, and a sound chamber. The stretched membrane is perimetrically connected around the pot chamber and is used to create the banjo portion of the apparatus's sound. stretched membrane resonates the air within the pot chamber, whose sound waves travel through the channel in order to be modified by the sound chamber. A bridge is used to connect the plurality of strings to the stretched membrane.

Abstract: This invention is a combination stringed musical instrument like a banjo, bass, and guitar. The invention can be either acoustic or electric. A combination banjo, bass, and guitar and method of playing is provided in which the sixth string is set as a bass string, the fifth string is setup as a banjo fifth string, and the remaining four strings are configured as guitar strings which can be plucked substantially simultaneously by a player, resulting in the simultaneous playing of banjo, bass, and guitar by a single player. Various combinations of string diameters for each part of the combination are disclosed along with options for using a capo or “tunneling” the fifth string at the fifth fret.

Abstract: A stringed musical instrument combination of at least two traditional stringed musical instruments or of nontraditional stringed musical instruments or a mix of traditional and nontraditional. The combination presents the advantages of rapid exchange while playing, reduced storage or transportation volume and a lower cost than two separate instruments. The preferred embodiment is a Fiddolin, a commercially available violin modified to present a mandolin on its back face. The string tension requirement is solved by having additional structure to mount the mandolin pegs into and the angularity needed to keep the strings pulled over the nut by channels or lumens to conduct the strings through.

Abstract: A musical instrument comprising of a fretted bass guitar and a fretless bass guitar as a single instrument and with only one neck. This multi stringed instrument has anywhere between four and twelve strings and combines some areas of the neck with frets and some areas with no frets. The pick-up system is also divided as to split as an output a stereo signal. This stereo signal or dual output in turn allows the two different basses (fretted and fretless) to be controlled separately or independently with respect to volume, equalization and signal processing.

Abstract: A combination stringed musical instrument for providing different stringed instruments on a common housing. The instrument includes a housing, neck portion, head portion, first plurality of string and second plurality of strings. The neck portion includes a neck first side and a neck second side. The head portion may be operationally coupled to the neck portion. The head portion includes a head first side and head second side. The head portion includes a plurality of tuning pegs. The first plurality of strings is preferably operationally coupled to the first side of the housing and extends upwardly along the neck first side. The first plurality of strings is coupled to the head first side. Similarly, the second plurality of strings may also be coupled to the second side of the housing and extends upwardly along the neck second side. The second plurality of strings is coupled to the head second side.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for enabling a player to simultaneously hold and utilize two or more guitars. Two guitars are shaped and dimensioned to be stacked one on to the other and interconnected.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device designed to accompany the playing of a guitar or other non-percussion instrument, which provides the capability for a musician to accompany his own playing of the guitar or other non-percussion instrument with a device which produces percussion while in simultaneous use with the guitar or other non-percussion instrument. The present invention is generally comprised of a member which mechanically strikes upon a sound-producing base, by means of an actuation device that is triggered by a mechanical or electrical impulse, initiated by the instrument player and transmitted by a triggering mechanism to the actuation device.

Abstract: A stringed musical instrument such as an electric or acoustic guitar and a bass guitar in combination with a piano-type keyboard. The musical instrument of the present invention includes a body with a neck extending from the body and a plurality of strings extending across the neck and the body. The body has a portion extending outward from the strings upon which the keyboard is adjustably attached using a bracket The present invention provides a user with ready access to both the stringed instrument and the keyboard. The user may utilize the stringed instrument and keyboard separately alternating therebetween or simultaneously having one hand of the user play the keyboard as well striking and/or strumming the strings. The user also has the ability to adjust the positioning of the keyboard in relation to the stringed instrument.

Abstract: The present invention integrates multiple single fingerboard instrument structures together by means of a linkage into a composite multiple fingerboard musical instrument that dimensionally positions instrument fingerboards horizontally, vertically and angularly relative to each other as a means for providing the player with the most beneficial structural configuration for simultaneous engagement by the hands on separate fingerboards. A variety of novel structures, linkages, and fingerboard matrix arrays are presented.

Abstract: An external support system that connects an electric guitar module (90), such as a travel guitar, to a standard electric guitar (80) or bass by detachably anchoring a linear holding device (20) to the standard instrument's body. The holding device (20) causes no alterations of the standard instrument, attaching to a posterior strap-fastening anchor (84) and an anterior horn-shaped curvature (86) to provide a slideable locking means (54) which fastens the external module (90).

Abstract: A multi faced electric stringed musical instrument mounted on a single axle at rear end of straight through neck. A mechanical rotary device is attached to a separate open faced multi planar body which the axle runs through. Shoulder strap is mounted to top and bottom ends of body and then worn as a conventional guitar. This separate stationary body keeps the straight thru neck away from artist's body in proper playing position, free to rotate in either direction.Each face of the stringed instrument can be played independently or simultaneously with respect to each other.

Abstract: An electric guitar (10) is disclosed as including spacers (50,52,54) and connector straps (56,58) that cooperate to provide mounting of the electric guitar on an acoustic guitar (12) in a spaced and fixed relationship. Three of the spacers are preferably utilized with one being an adjustable spacer (50) and two being end spacers (52,54) between which the adjustable spacer (50) is located in a central and rearwardly spaced position that also accommodates for adjustment of the guitar faces with respect to each other. In one embodiment, the connector straps (56,58) have a resilient construction and in another embodiment incorporate adjustable clamps (84,86).

Abstract: A combination guitar having a full acoustical hollow body with the standard neck, head and strings supported between tuners on the head to a bridge on the top panel of the guitar's acoustical body with a solid electric guitar body structurally attached to the side wall of the acoustical hollow body with a second neck, head and strings supported over electronic pick up devices to transmit to the amplifier with volume and balance control mechanisms for the electric portion of the guitar to balance with an acoustical pick up inside the hollow body for transmission to the amplifier.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a novel stringed musical instrument that can be played by two musicians simultaneously. The instrument comprises two instrument bodies with necks mutually joined about a common central cavity such that the instrument may be flexed about a common vertex located at the center of the central cavity. In the preferred embodiment, the instrument bodies are joined about a spherical resonant cavity and are joined at the center thereof by a joint mechanism allowing angular and rotational freedom of motion for the two instrument bodies with respect to each other. The invention is particularly suited to the guitar, and allows for a plurality of sounds produced from the two guitar bodies to be simultaneously focused and combined within the central resonant cavity. Therefore two musicians can engage in the playing of duets upon a single musical instrument.

Abstract: A component multi-necked string-instrument is disclosed. At least two instruments are flexibly connected to enable multiple instrument playing with fluidity and ease. The instruments are reverse-strung, stream-lined, having conventional tunings means angularly recessed rearward of the bridge section. Electrical control means are likewise recessed. A limited headstock is also provided for string anchoring, balance and playing ease.

Abstract: A combined guitar and bass guitar employing a common body, neck and finger board and more significantly employing two common strings to provide both instruments employing a total of eight strings.

Abstract: A musical instrument comprising an electric guitar and an electric bass in a single instrument having a body to which is attached a neck with enlarged frets so that the neck and the frets may receive at the same time the four strings of the bass as well as the six strings of the common guitar, provided also with a pick-up for the bass as well as with a pick-up for the guitar, both pick-ups leading to a common, single stereo outlet being in turn connected to an already well known amplifier.

Abstract: A stringed musical instrument is provided upon which music may be performed in either of two manners. The body of the instrument, which may be electrically amplified, has two complete sets of strings, amplification pickups, volume and tone controls and necks which radiate in substantially opposite directions. The instrument is suspended from a harness worn by the performer by means of a mechanical and electrical rotary connections. The instrument may be rotated by the performer on a horizontal axis to bring the instrument into the desired playing position.

Abstract: A double neck string instrument in the nature of an electric guitar adapted for two voice play with one neck extending parallel to the other neck spaced apart therefrom, offset longitudinally thereof, and offset from the plane of the stringed face thereof, so that each hand can play on a different neck without play of one hand on one neck interfering with the play of the other hand on the other neck. Each neck has its own sound pick up.