Dynamic fret
OwnerAntonio Cirilloinventor
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Abstract
A mechanical device is described, integrated in a fret board of a cord-type music instrument as replacement of a fret adapted to cross the fret board from the front surface to the rear surface of the fret board; the mechanical device comprises: a bridge element arranged on the rear surface of the fret board; a rider means, adapted to vertically cross the fret board of the cord-type music instrument and to be connected with the bridge element; an elastic means, equipped with a first end connected to the bridge element, and with a second end strictly connected to at least one room obtained in the fret board.
Claims16
1-21. (canceled)
A mechanical device integrated in a fret board of a cord-type music instrument as replacement of a fret, wherein the mechanical device crosses the fret board from the front surface to the rear surface of the fret board, the mechanical device comprising:
- a bridge element arranged on the rear surface of the fret board;
- rider means, adapted to vertically cross the fret board of the cord-type music instrument and to be connected to the bridge element, the rider means being composed of at least one horizontal element, placed on the front surface of the fret board of the cord-type music instrument and of at least two vertical elements connected on the top to the horizontal element, conferring to the rider means a π shape;
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- elastic means, equipped with a first end connected to the bridge element, and of a second end connected to a room obtained in the fret board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.