Combination guitar and bass
OwnerMark A. Yaskoweakinventor
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Abstract
A combination guitar and bass guitar and method of playing is provided in which the bass strings are distributed between or adjacent to matched guitar strings so that adjacent bass and guitar strings can be plucked substantially simultaneously by a player, resulting in the simultaneous playing of bass and guitar by a single player. Various combinations of bass strings interspersed in or between or adjacent to guitar strings are disclosed. The guitar and bass can also be played independently of each other in the normal manner.
Claims20
A stringed instrument comprising:
- (a) a base portion;
- (b) an elongated neck portion attached to said base portion, and
- (c) a plurality of strings attached to the base and neck portions divided into two permanent groups of strings as follows:
- (1) a plurality of guitar strings in one or more sequences tuned to a progressive series of guitar notes, and
- (2) one or more bass strings tuned to the same note as an end note of the one or more progressive series of guitar notes,
- (3) the one or more bass strings being positioned closely adjacent the guitar strings comprising the end note of the one or more sequences of guitar strings tuned to a progressive sequence of guitar notes at a distance facilitating substantially simultaneous playing of the bass and guitar notes.
A stringed instrument comprising:
- (a) a plurality of strings extending between a body portion and a neck portion and tuned to guitar range,
- (b) a string tuned to bass range disposed at one end of the plurality of strings tuned to the guitar range,
- (c) said string tuned to bass range being positioned immediately adjacent to a string tuned to the same note in the guitar range at a distance which facilitates simultaneous playing of said bass range string and immediately adjacent guitar range string.
A method of producing musical tones from a stringed instrument in the form of a guitar, said guitar having a plurality of pairs of closely adjacent bass strings and guitar strings integrated together into a single sequence of strings, comprising the steps of tuning the pairs of closely adjacent bass and guitar strings to the same musical tone, and thereafter fingering the closely adjacent bass and guitar strings substantially simultaneously to produce a coordinated tone.
A stringed instrument comprising:
- (a) a base portion;
- (b) an elongated neck portion attached to said base portion, and
- (c) a plurality of strings attached to the base and neck portions such that:
- (1) a plurality of guitar strings having lengths and gauges to vibrate with tones in the guitar range,
- (2) one or more bass strings having lengths and gauges to vibrate with tones in the bass range,
- (3) the plurality of guitar range strings being arranged in one or more progressive sequences of guitar notes,
- (4) the one or more bass strings being positioned closely adjacent the guitar string at one end of the one or more progressive sequences of guitar note strings such that both strings can be played substantially simultaneously with one finger of a musician's hand with the bass note string being of such gauge and length as to be tunable to an identical note as the adjacent guitar series string is tuned to.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.