Combination guitar and bass
OwnerSergio Santucciinventor
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Abstract
A musical instrument comprising an electric guitar and an electric bass in a single instrument having a body to which is attached a neck with enlarged frets so that the neck and the frets may receive at the same time the four strings of the bass as well as the six strings of the common guitar, provided also with a pick-up for the bass as well as with a pick-up for the guitar, both pick-ups leading to a common, single stereo outlet being in turn connected to an already well known amplifier.
Claims9
A musical instrument combining a guitar having typical guitar strings and a bass having heavier low frequency bass strings into a single instrument retaining the guitar strings and the heavier low frequency bass strings, said instrument including a body portion, a tailpiece fixedly mounted to said body portion, a neck portion having frets thereon fixedly attached to said body portion in line with said tailpiece, and an oblique transveral bridge also mounted to said body portion separate and apart from said tailpiece and extending in a plane perpendicular to said body portion and at the same time being in a plane oblique to the axis of said neck portion, a pallet portion provided on said neck portion and having a bass string and a guitar string portion, said bass string portion having a plurality of bass string tuning devices mounted thereto, said guitar string portion having a plurality of guitar string tuning devices mounted thereto, a plurality of bass strings attached one each between said bass string tuning device and said tailpiece and passing over said oblique transversal bridge, a plurality of guitar strings attached one each between said guitar string tuning devices and said tailpiece and passing over said oblique transversal bridge, a first sound pick-up mounted beneath said bass strings, a second sound pick-up mounted beneath said guitar strings, and a stereo outlet connected to said first and said second sound pick-ups.
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