Stringed instrument system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9916819
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14936242

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A set of tremolo devices and bridge devices for static retention of a plurality of musical instrument strings in a stringed instrument. The tremolo device has a body with an upper surface, a neck portion, and a plurality of strings anchored at a first end of the neck and extending over at least a portion and secured to the tremolo device at the other end of the neck portion and the body and possesses an inertia block mechanism with substantially solid construction disposed to receive and securely retain a plurality of raw instrument strings without removal of a ball end from each string. The inertia block has an upper portion, a lower portion, and a plurality of internal, longitudinally displaced, cylindrically shaped, string retaining chambers designed to pass through an entirety of the block mechanism. The string retaining chambers have an upper and lower portion corresponding with the upper and lower portions of the block.

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MODERN VINTAGE TECHNOLOGY LLCRANDOLPH MA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Finkle, Scott Randolph, US 9 54

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