Abstract: A stringed instrument tailpiece includes an elongate body. Openings, which may be slots or through-holes, are formed at a bridge-end of the elongate body to engage a musical instrument's one or more strings. An opening at the gut-end of the elongate body is configured to engage a gut, which attaches to an instrument endpin.

Abstract: A stringed instrument tailpiece includes an elongate body that is top/bottom and left/right symmetrical. Openings are formed at a bridge-end of the elongate body to engage a musical instrument's one or more strings. An opening at the gut-end of the elongate body is configured to engage a gut, which attaches to an instrument endpin.

Abstract: [Problems to be Solved] The object of the present invention is to provide a stringed instrument which can maintain sound volume at a specific level, optimize vibration of strings and resonance of body and improve balance of the sound volume and sound quality in the treble side tone and the bass side tone. [Means for Solving the Problems] A force is applied to a front end of said tailpiece for rotating a front end of a tailpiece in a direction from a portion to which a string having a high basic frequency is fastened to a portion to which a string having a low basic frequency is fastened so that a load applied from the string having a high basic frequency to a bridge decreases and a load applied from the string having a low basic frequency to the bridge increases.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for securing a string to an acoustic, stringed instrument are disclosed. Example apparatus include string anchors secured to a bridge of the stringed instrument. The apparatus provide components enabling selective tensioning of the string. A seat arrangement provided by string anchors receives an anchor end of string and the string passes from the seat arrangement through a base arrangement and towards a headstock of the acoustic instrument.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for a clip-beat aligner that identifies musical beats in an audio file. An editing mode is provided to associate the audio file with a media segment according to a timeline. The clip-beat aligner aligns a boundary of the media segment with a musical beat on the timeline. Upon performing an editing operation, the clip-beat aligner maintains that the boundary of the media segment is aligned with any one of the musical beats. To align a boundary of each media segment with a musical beat, the clip-beat aligner identifies a musical beat that is proximate to the position of the media segment's boundary. The clip-beat aligner then aligns the media segment's boundary with the proximate musical beat by, if necessary, automatically trimming the media segment's duration such that the media segment's boundary occurs at the same moment in time as the proximate musical beat.

Abstract: A hand held percussion musical instrument including: a thin walled resonance chamber and a first rigid coil having a first end attached to the resonance chamber such as by welding. The first rigid coil has a length perpendicular to the surface of the resonance chamber and; the first coil includes a plurality of individual wire wraps each wrap spaced from adjacent wraps. A second end of the first coil is spaced from the resonance chamber such that striking the first coil produces first musical tones amplified by said resonance chamber. The resonance chamber can be held between the user's thumb and middle finger such that the coil can be struck or filtered by the user's index finger during play.

Abstract: One aspect of the present patent application is a musical instrument comprising a body, a bridge, a plurality of strings, a plurality of separate cables, a single cable, and a saddle. The plurality of strings extends from a first side to a second side of the bridge. Each of the plurality of strings is connected to one of the plurality of separate cables on the second side of the bridge. All of the plurality of separate cables are joined into the single cable. The single cable extends over the instrument's saddle along one path.

Abstract: An electric violin has strings stretched over an instrument body, and the strings are anchored to a tailpiece, which in turn is connected to a tail wire to the instrument body; a saddle plate is bolted to the instrument body, and the tail wire is connected to the saddle plate by means of bolts; and the electric violin further has a blindfold extending from a chinrest, and the blindfold prevents the tail wire, saddle plate and bolts from eyes of users so that the electric violin does not give the antique impression of acoustic violin to the users without sacrifice of durability of the connection between the tail wire and the instrument body.

Abstract: A device for restraining or anchoring the endpin of a floor-resting musical instrument such as a cello or a string bass is provided for allowing the musician to hold the musical instrument in a desired position and prevent the endpin from sliding around on the floor surface. The device also protects the surface of the floor from being damaged by a sliding endpin. The device also does not dampen the sound of the musical instrument.

Abstract: Devices for altering an acoustic property of stringed instruments are described that include a tailpiece adjustment mechanism configured for rotating at least a portion of a tailpiece relative to a central axis of the stringed instrument, and/or for immobilizing at least a portion of a tailpiece such that at least a portion of vibrations of the tailpiece are restrained when the stringed instrument is played, and/or for transmitting at least a portion of vibrations produced in a tailpiece when the stringed instrument is played into a body portion of the stringed instrument. Stringed instruments containing such devices and methods for altering an acoustic property of stringed instruments are also described.

Abstract: Strings are stretched between pegs and a tailpiece both forming parts of an electric base; the strings passes through the space between the body and the tailpiece, and are folded over the obverse surface of the tailpiece; although the body is shorter than that of a standard electric base, the decorative end portions, which are covered with colored yarns, do not reach a bridge, and are not bowed in performance; thus, the tailpiece makes it possible to use the short body without sacrifice of the tactile sense at the fingers in the bowing.

Abstract: A bow stringed instrument having an anchor piece which secures the strings to the top plate of the instrument, wherein strings are connected to the anchor piece and the anchor piece is attached to the top plate.

Abstract: In order to provide an easily usable string holder for a musical instrument with a holding body, on which a holding device for strings of the musical instrument is disposed and which is provided with an attachment element forming an attachment bow for fixing the holding body to the musical instrument, it is proposed that an adjusting device for adjustment of the distance of an attachment bow apex of the attachment element from the holding body be disposed on the holding body, and that the adjusting device be constructed to be operable from outside the holding body.

Abstract: The invention comprises modification of a classical stringed instrument wherein an elevating block is used to make the string angle between the rearward portion of the strings with respect to the bridge of the instrument to be nearly the same as the angle between strings and bridge on the forward side of the bridge so that the bridge bisects the total included string angle. An associated modification of the position of the sound post from the classical position, which is to the rear of the right bridge foot, to a position just beneath the right bridge foot, is believed to enhance the efficiency of the sympathetic action of the back of the instrument with respect to the action of the belly of the instrument. The combination produces a much wider dynamic volume range and improved sensitivity and brillance with respect to that of an un-modified (classic) configuration.

Abstract: An improved nut design for positioning near the fingerboard of a stringed instrument or at the opposing anchor ends of the strings of the instrument comprising a nut body having a raised string support column for each respective string and a fluted or open space between each column for enhancement of sound transfer into the resonating body of the instrument. The modification of the nut body to form a crown with alternating support columns and open spaces has been found to substantially improve sound transfer and tone production. The nut configuration has been adapted for the nut body positioned at the upper end of the fingerboard, and also for the saddle and tail piece for stringed instruments of the violin family.

Abstract: A stringed musical instrument, e.g. a bow instrument or an electric guitar, is disclosed comprising a substantially rigid body and a plurality of strings attached at one end to a tailpiece. A flexible soundboard of acoustic material bears through one edge against the instrument body and through an opposite edge against the tailpiece. The soundboard freely extends between the one edge and the opposite edge and the tailpiece is fulcrumed on the instrument body. Upon tensioning the strings the soundboard is arched between the instrument body and the tailpiece. Preferably, the soundboard is of arcuate shape with its convex side facing the strings.

Abstract: A stringed musical instrument, of the type in which the strings extend over a bridge which rests on the table of the instrument and are secured to a tailpiece, is provided with a tone improving device for maximising the tone production whatever strings are fitted to the instrument. The device is clamped to the table of the instrument and incorporates a nut to which the tailgut is attached. The nut is mounted on a threaded cylindrical member so as to be movable upwardly or downwardly on rotation of the member to modify the angle between the table and the part of the strings extending from the bridge to the tailpiece thereby to control the force exerted by the bridge on the table due to the tension in the strings without substantially varying the tension in the strings.

Abstract: A counter pressure system for use in a stringed instrument of the type played with a bow for improving the tone of the instrument in both volume and in quality. The system includes the main or melody producing strings and one or more counter pressure strings that are arranged to accept at least part of the pressure from the main strings and transfer it away from the main bridge. The relieved pressure is redistributed by the counter pressure system in a manner that extends the quality of sound produced by the instrument. In practice, part of the total string pressure is translated to the sound box via the main bridge while the remaining pressure is imparted to the box via an auxiliary bridge located forward of the main bridge. A sounding post is located under one foot of each bridge which, in the case of a violin, would be the foot on the E string side of the instrument.

Abstract: A string holder for a string instrument comprises a support which is secured for the string instrument and formed with a plurality of generally parallel longitudinal guides in each of which a respective support block can be displaced through a relatively long longitudinal distance. This block can be locked at any location along the respective guide. Each of the blocks carries a two-arm lever one of whose arms is secured to the respective string and the other of whose arms is acted on by a screw for displacement of the one arm through a relatively short distance for fine tuning of the distance between bridge and anchor point for the respective string.