Focused input stringed instrument

A stringed instrument with a hollow body, the hollow body being formed by body sides, a body bottom, and a body top, the instrument comprising:

• a vibrationally-responsive soundboard forming at least a part of the body top,
• the soundboard having an interaction region where string vibrational interactions occur directly through a bridge;
• the interaction region being isolated from string vibrational interactions other than string vibrational interactions through the bridge;
• the bridge contacting the soundboard at the interaction region and defining the interaction region beneath the bridge;
• a neck comprising:
• a head and a tail;
• the neck being fixed to the body only medial the head and the tail so that the head extends outward from the body and so that the tail extends into the body;
• the tail being spaced apart from the soundboard;
• a string,
• the string being stretched between the head and the tail;
• the string pressing the bridge into the soundboard so that as the string vibrates the string vibrational interactions through the bridge occur directly at the interaction region;
• the string, between the bridge and the tail, bypassing the soundboard so that the string vibrational interactions transmitted to the interaction region, other than through the bridge, are minimized;
• and a tail adjuster, the tail adjuster in use selectively positioning the tail with respect to the bridge, and the tail adjuster being mounted to the instrument and being spaced apart from the soundboard.

A stringed instrument comprising:

• a hollow body, the body being formed by body sides, a body bottom, and a body top;
• a vibrationally-responsive soundboard forming at least a part of the body top;
• the soundboard having an interaction region where string vibrational interactions occur directly through a bridge;
• the interaction region being isolated from string vibrational interactions other than through the bridge due to attenuation of vibrational interactions reaching the interaction region via other paths that pass through intervening material;
• the bridge contacting the soundboard at the interaction region and defining the interaction region beneath the bridge;
• a neck having a head and a tail;
• the neck being fixed to the body medial the head and the tail so that the head extends outward from the body and so that the tail extends into the body;
• the tail being spaced apart from the soundboard;
• the neck maintaining a substantially smoothly-curved shape along the neck and throughout the tail;
• a string being stretched between the head and the tail;
• the string pressing the bridge into the soundboard so that as the string vibrates the string vibrational interactions through the bridge occur directly at the interaction region;
• the string, between the bridge and the tail, bypassing the soundboard so that string vibrational interactions transmitted through the soundboard to the interaction region are minimized;
• and a tail adjuster, the tail adjuster in use selectively positioning the tail with respect to the bridge, and the tail adjuster being mounted to the instrument and being spaced apart from the soundboard.