G - Physics – 10 – D
Patent
G - Physics
10
D
84/30
G10D 3/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1272401
ABSTRACT Stringed instrument The invention relates to a stringed instrument, such as a violin, viola, violoncello or contrabass, compris- ing: a peripheral wall serving as a frame; a top board at- tached to the one side thereof; a bottom board attached to the other side thereof; which peripheral wall bounds with the said boards a sound space and bears a neck provided with ten- sioning members for strings extending outside this sound space; attaching members for the strings arranged on the peripheral wall and/or the top board on the side away from the neck; a number of strings extending approximately parallel to one another over the top board between the tensioning mem- bers and the attaching members; a bridge extending transverse- ly of the longitudinal direction of the strings above the top board, supporting the strings and forced by the tensioning in these strings in the direction of the sound space, which bridge is connected directly to the top board and connected to the bottom board via transmitting means for transmitting of the string vibrations to these boards; a more or less fork-like element situated in the sound space having a first connecting part extending close to the peripheral wall in the area of the relevant end of the neck between the top board and the bottom board and being attached to the latter, which part bears two beams extending more or less in the direction of the attaching means, the beams being connected over their whole length with the top board and the bottom board; and a second more or less fork-like element situated in the sound space.
553315
Fetherstonhaugh & Co.
Visser Norbert
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