Guitar and adjustable mute therefor
AssigneeCBS Inc.
InventorGrover G. Fields
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Abstract
A bass guitar incorporates a number of damping pads which are individually mounted and individually adjustable without tools. Rotational motion of the adjustment is isolated from the pad and its carrier by rotatably mounting the latter to an adjustable shaft, restraining rotation of the shaft and minimizing resistance to relative rotation of the pad carrier and adjustable shaft.
Claims13
In combination with a guitar having a plurality of spaced and general parallel strings mounted in tensioned relationship over a body, said strings lying generally in a plane substantially parallel to the face of said body, a plurality of individual mutes for said strings, each said mute comprising:
- a mounting sleeve fixedly secured to said body beneath an individual one of the strings,
- a shaft carried within said sleeve for rotatable adjustment along the axis of said sleeve,
- a carrier assembly mounted to said shaft for rotaion about the axis of the shaft, and
- a damping pad mounted on the carrier assembly.
A mute of damper device for a bass guitar or similar string instrument, said device comprising:
- a mounting sleeve,
- an adjustable shaft threadedly engaged within said sleeve,
- a rotatable carrier assembly mounted to said shaft for rotation about the axis thereof, and
- a damping pad carried by said assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.