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Granted Patent B2
US 7,442,865 · App. 11/009,336 · Granted Oct 28, 2008

Interchangable and modular acoustic and electric guitar apparatus

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Patent No.
US 7,442,865
App. No.
11/009,336
Granted
Oct 28, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A musical instrument apparatus has the ability to interchange from acoustic to electric string instrument embodiments; both the acoustic and electric string embodiments share a common hollow modular body assembly.

Claims (27)

1. A modular string instrument apparatus comprising:

at least one string instrument neck assembly;

a modular body assembly;

a vibration resonator;

said modular body assembly being substantially hollow and being able to removably engage the at least one string instrument neck assembly,

said modular body assembly has at least one outer modular body surface and a string side and a body side inner modular body surface;

said vibration resonator having a first vibration resonator end and a second vibration resonator end;

said first vibration resonator end being fixedly attached to a non-edge surface on the string side inner modular body surface;

said first vibration resonator end not contacting the body side inner modular body surface; and

said second vibration resonator end detachably engaging the at least one string instrument neck assembly;

whereby the user can modify the modular music apparatus by interchangeably removing and attaching the at least one string instrument neck assembly to the modular body assembly for a particular musical purpose.

2. The modular string instrument apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

a first string instrument neck assembly,

the first string instrument neck assembly having at least one first string instrument neck assembly opening, which passes entirely through the first string instrument neck assembly; and

at least one first string instrument neck assembly string,

at least one first string instrument neck assembly string attachment post, and

a first string instrument neck assembly bridge;

a second string instrument neck assembly;

said second string instrument neck assembly having at least one second string instrument neck assembly string;

at least one second string instrument neck assembly string attachment post,

an electric string instrument bridge, and

at least one electric pickup;

said modular body assembly being able to removably and separately engage the first and the second string instrument neck assemblies,

whereby the user can modify the modular music apparatus by interchangeably attaching and removing the first and the second string instrument neck assemblies to the modular body assembly for a particular musical purpose.

3. The modular string instrument apparatus of claim 2 , further comprising a case for the first and second string instrument neck assemblies and the modular body assembly.

4. The modular string instrument apparatus of claim 2 , said first string instrument neck assembly further comprising at least one acoustic-type pickup.

5. The modular string instrument apparatus of claim 2 further comprising at least one output jack and at least one volume control device and at least one tone control device.

Continuity (1)
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