Patent ID: 8816177
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: G10D

Abstract:
1. A bridge for a string instrument having a body and strings that are stretched from an upper side to a bottom side of the body, the bridge comprising: a base made so as to be mounted to the body of the string instrument and having an edge portion at a bottom thereof; screw members having a neck portion that is rotatably supported at the edge portion of the base; and saddles screwed with the screw members and being movable toward the upper side or the bottom side by turn of the screw members, wherein each of the saddles has a saddle body and string grooves, the saddle body has an approximately columnar shape and has an axis line that is made so as to approximately orthogonally cross a direction from the upper side to the bottom side, the string grooves extend along a circumferential direction at an outer circumference of two ends of the saddle body, respectively, and wherein each of the string grooves has deep groove portions, each of the deep groove portions has an approximately arc shape in cross section and has a larger curvature radius than that of the string groove in vertical cross section, whereby each of the deep groove portions has a chevron shape in the vicinity of a starting point thereof in vertical cross section, the chevron shape of a deep groove portion of one of the string grooves has a peak, which is closer to the upper side than the axis line in top view, and the chevron shape of another deep groove portion of another string groove has a peak, which is closer to the bottom side than the axis line in top view.