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US 2006/0123971 A1Published application
Interchangable and modular acoustic and electric guitar apparatus
OwnerAli Moghaddaminventor
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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.
Claims18
A modular string instrument apparatus comprising:
- a first string instrument neck assembly,
- said first string instrument neck assembly having at least one first string instrument neck assembly opening, which passes entirely though the first string instrument neck assembly,
- 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;
- a modular body assembly, which is fixedly attached to a vibration resonator,
- said modular body assembly is substantially hollow, and
- 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 particular musical purposes.
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A modular string instrument apparatus comprising:
- at least one string instrument neck assembly;
- and
- a modular body assembly being fixedly attached to a vibration resonator,
- said modular body assembly being substantially hollow and said modular body assembly being able to removably engage the at least one string instrument neck assembly,
- said modular body apparatus has at least one first modular body surface and at least one second 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 the second 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.
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A modular string instrument apparatus comprising:
- a first string instrument neck assembly,
- said first string instrument neck assembly having at least one first string instrument neck assembly opening, which passes entirely though the first string instrument neck assembly,
- 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;
- a modular body assembly, which is substantially hollow, and
- 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.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.