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US 9,047,848 B2Granted
Three stringed fretted musical instrument
OwnerBrian Dyskininventor
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Abstract
The disclosed musical instrument is a fretted musical instrument with three strings wherein the fretboard has frets (1) installed at positions corresponding to notes of a diatonic scale with the addition of frets at positions corresponding to 10 semitones from the nut and 15 semitones from the nut, and visual fret line markers at all other semitone positions (3). The fretboard is marked with fret position markers (7) according to the musical interval from the nut (2), rather than the actual number of frets from the nut.
Claims8
A stringed musical instrument comprising,
- frets installed on the fretboard at positions corresponding to 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, and 17 semitones from the nut of the instrument, and
- a fret corresponding to the 15th semitone from the nut to allow ease of playing a pentatonic minor scale important in rock-and-roll and blues music
- wherein visual line markers, flush with or below the fretboard surface, parallel to the frets mark the semitone positions which do not have a fret installed to further improve the ease of playing and learning music on the instrument.
A method for playing a stringed musical instrument comprising,
- providing a stringed musical instrument having frets installed on the fretboard at positions corresponding to 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, and 17 semitones from the nut of the instrument, and a fret corresponding to the 15th semitone from the nut to allow ease of playing a pentatonic minor scale important in rock-and-roll and blues music;
- and
- playing said musical instrument;
- wherein the musical instrument has visual line markers, flush with or below the fretboard surface, parallel to the frets mark the semitone positions which do not have a fret installed to further improve the ease of playing and learning music on the instrument.
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