Stringed electrical instrument
OwnerDavid Nulmaninventor
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Abstract
An electric stringed musical instrument is formed of a body section adapted to detachably receive an interchangeable neck section. The body section mounts the electronic tone and volume controls and includes the electromagnetic pickup which is rendered into operative proximity to the neck strings when the instrument is in the assembled condition. The body section is adapted to interchangeably receive neck sections of various string types and fingerboard widths and the electromagnetic pickup is selectively moveable in the longitudinal, i.e., horizontal direction and also in the vertical direction to accomodate the particular string characteristics of the interchangeable neck section.
Claims8
An electric stringed musical instrument comprising:
- a neck section comprising a fingerboard portion having an integrally connected head member at one end thereof and an integrally connected base portion at the other end thereof, and a plurality of strings having one of their adjacent ends mounted on said head member and extending longitudinally across the length of said fingerboard portion and the other of their adjacent ends mounted on a bridge and secured to said base portion at its end remote from said fingerboard portion, said fingerboard base portion terminating at its lower end in a tapered lip extending across the width thereof, a body section having a recessed socket adapted to receive said base portion of said neck section and a narrowed extension slot extending from said socket;
- electromagnetic pickup means mounted in said body section socket in operative proximity with a portion of said neck strings intermediate said fingerboard portion and said bridge when said neck section base portion is seated in said body section socket;
- attachment means for fixedly securing the underside of said neck section to said body section when said neck base portion is seated in said body section socket to form said electric stringed musical instrument in unitary form, said neck section base portion including a generally rectangular cut-out formed therein, said neck strings extending over said cut-out, said cut-out being sized to permit said electromagnetic pickup means to extend therethrough into operative proximity with said neck strings when said neck section base portion is seated in said body section socket, said fingerboard portion being undercut along the underside thereof to form a mount portion of fixed reduced width to be received in said extension slot when said neck section is seated in said body section, said body section socket having an undercut angled keyslot to receive said neck base portion lip in wedge-like locking engagement to secure the lower end of said neck base portion to said body section to permit rapid and secure assembly of said neck and body sections, said body section socket having a depth sized so that when said neck section base portion is seated in said body section socket, the upper surface of said neck section base portion is coplanar with the upper surface of said body section, and adjusting means located on said body section operative to adjust the position of said electromagnetic pickup means linearly vertically through said base portion cut-out in a direction perpendicular to the plane of said strings and linearly horizontally in said body section socket in the direction of the longitudinal axis of said strings.
An electric stringed musical instrument body section for receiving and mounting a removable instrument neck section having a fingerboard portion having a head member at one end and a bridge at the other end for mounting a plurality of strings and a base portion, said fingerboard portion being undercut along the underside thereof to form a mount portion of fixed reduced width, said fingerboard base portion having its base portion terminating at its lower end in a tapered lip extending across the width thereof, said body section comprising:
- a recessed socket adapted to receive said base portion of said neck section;
- a narrowed extension slot extending from said socket in the direction of the longitudinal axis of said fingerboard adapted to receive said fingerboard mount portion;
- said recessed socket having an undercut angled keyslot to receive said neck base portion lip in wedge-like locking engagement to secure the lower end of said neck base portion to said body section to permit rapid and secure assembly of said neck and body sections, electromagnetic pickup means mounted in said body section socket so as to be in operative proximity with a portion of said strings intermediate said fingerboard portion and said bridge when said neck section base portion is seated in said body section socket, said body section socket having an undercut angled keyslot to receive said neck base portion lip in wedge-like locking engagement to secure the lower end of said neck base portion to said body section to permit rapid and secure assembly of said neck and body sections, said body section socket having a depth sized so that when said neck section base portion is seated in said body section socket, the upper surface of said neck section base portion is coplanar with the upper surface of said body section, and adjusting means located on said body section operative to adjust the position of said electromagnetic pickup means linearly vertically through said base portion cut-out in a direction perpendicular to the plane of said strings and linearly horizontally in said body section socket in the direction of the longitudinal axis of said strings.
An electric stringed musical instrument neck section for removable mounting in an instrument body section having a recessed socket, an extension slot extending therefrom in the direction of the longitudinal axis of said strings with an undercut angled keyslot, said body section socket having a depth sized so that when said neck section base portion is seated in said body section socket, the upper surface of said neck section base portion is coplanar with the upper surface of said body section and electromagnetic pickup means;
- said neck section comprising:
- a fingerboard portion having an integrally connected head member at one end thereof and an integrally connected base portion mounting a bridge at the other end thereof, a plurality of strings having their adjacent ends mounted on said head member and extending longitudinally across the length of said fingerboard portion and the other of their adjacent ends mounted on said bridge and base portion at its end remote from said fingerboard portion;
- said neck section base portion being adapted to be removably seated in said body section socket, said fingerboard portion being undercut along the underside thereof to form a mount portion of fixed reduced width to be received in said extension slot, said fingerboard base portion terminating at its lower end in a tapered lip extending across the width thereof to be received in said body section angled keyslot in wedge-like locking engagement to receive the lower end of said neck base portion to said body section to permit rapid and secure assembly of said neck and body sections.
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