Patent ID: 9165539
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G10D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A stringed musical instrument comprising: a neck, a body fabricated from a rigid material, and a plurality of strings, wherein said body is attached to said neck and said strings are stretched from a point along said neck to a point on said solid body, and wherein said body includes: a metal monolithic structure body bottom part having a solid non-chambered central structure that is internal and integral to said monolithic body bottom part, and an array of chambers flanking the solid non-chambered central structure; and a metal monolithic structure body top part having an array of respective corresponding chambers, which correspond to the array of chambers of the bottom part, and having one or more slots, wherein the top part and the bottom part are joined at the outside edge and across the entire surface or at multiple contact areas between the body top and bottom parts, to form, from the array of chambers flanking the solid non-chambered central structure and the array of respective corresponding chambers, an array of closed chambers flanking the central structure.