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US 4,226,160 AGranted
Unitary pick having multiple picking surfaces
OwnerAndrew V. Picciochiinventor
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Abstract
A pick having a pair of relatively spaced pick blades integrally connected and unitarily formed of a flexible and resilient material such that the normally spaced-apart relation of the string-engaging blades is selectively variable for changing the interval between sequential contacts of the blades with the strings of a musical instrument.
Claims12
A pick for use with stringed musical instruments comprising:
- a unitary body being a substantially planar member having at least a pair of oppositely disposed edges,
- a resilient fold provided in said member creasing the same intermediate said oppositely disposed edges to delineate a pair of relatively spaced pick blades of said unitary body connected at and depending from said resilient fold, each of said pick blades carrying one of said oppositely disposed edges and angularly diverging from said fold relative to the other of said pick blades such that when the folded body is grasped in the area of said fold the pick blades may be varied in relative spacing and said edges are disposed in their normally spaced apart relation for multiple sequential sound-generating contact of said edges with a musical instrument string each time said pick is moved across the string.
A pick for playing a stringed musical instrument comprising:
- a pair of pick blades,
- each of said pick blades having oppositely disposed first and second edges,
- and fold means on said pick formed unitary with said blades and integrally joining said pick blades to one another at and along said first edges to complete a unitary pick in the shape of a V such that said pick blades angularly diverge outwardly from said joining means and terminate at said second edges so as to normally position said second edges in spaced apart relation for sequential sound-generating contact with a musical instrument string as said unitary pick is moved across the string,
- said fold means being a resilient connection between said blades enabling the blades to be varied in relative spacing during the use of said pick;
- said blades being formed of a flexible and resilient material so that the flexibility and resilience of said pick blades produce a distinctive click as an inseparable part of the sound generated as each of said second edges is moved across the string and substantially brightening the tonal characteristics of the generated sound.
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A method of forming a pick for use with a stringed musical instrument, comprising the steps of:
- fabricating a substantially flat planar unitary body having a pair of oppositely disposed edges,
- and folding the body intermediate the oppositely disposed edges to crease the body and delineate a pair of pick blades unitarily connected by the fold and carrying the oppositely disposed edges such that each of the pick blades angularly diverges from the fold relative to the other of the pick blades and extends outwardly from the fold to a respective one of the oppositely disposed edges arranged in spaced apart relation to each other so as to form a pick grippable in the area of the fold and movable across a musical instrument string for multiple sequential sound-generating contact of the spaced apart edges with the string each time the pick is moved thereacross.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.