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US09257102B2 Fully-adjustable capo for stringed musical instruments 有权
用于弦乐器的完全可调节的头盔

  • Patent Title: Fully-adjustable capo for stringed musical instruments
  • Patent Title (中): 用于弦乐器的完全可调节的头盔
  • Application No.: US14615767
    Application Date: 2015-02-06
  • Publication No.: US09257102B2
    Publication Date: 2016-02-09
  • Inventor: Benjamin B. Ryan
  • Applicant: Benjamin B. Ryan
  • Agency: Lyon & Harr, LLP
  • Agent Richard T. Lyon
  • Main IPC: G10D3/04
  • IPC: G10D3/04
Fully-adjustable capo for stringed musical instruments
Abstract:
A tuning apparatus for a musical instrument is provided. The apparatus includes a clamp, a plurality of string-contacting members, and a string-contacting member spacing adjustment mechanism. The clamp removably attaches to a desired longitudinal position on the instrument's neck. Each member is rotatably supported by the clamp and rotates thereon independently of the other members. Each member also adjustably impinges upon and urges a given string or course thereof on the instrument toward a user-selectable one of three different longitudinal positions on the neck's front surface, these positions including a home position, a home−1 position, and a home+1 position. The mechanism allows a user to adjust the location of the members as a group on the clamp so as to substantially center the plane of rotation of each member over a different string or course thereof, and to maintain substantially equal spacing between each different adjacent pair of members.
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