Patent ID: 6166309
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: G10D

Abstract:
A bridge mechanism for a guitar, wherein the guitar comprises a body of the guitar, a head of the guitar connected by a neck to the body, guitar strings extending under tensile stress from the body of the guitar over the neck to the head of the guitar; the bridge mechanism for the guitar comprising:a main bridge body which may be arranged on the guitar body;the bridge body having a recess which extends across the plurality of strings;a string support saddle disposed in the recess, the saddle having an edge extending out of the recess and against which the strings arc held by tensile stress such that vibration of each guitar string is transmitted to the saddle;a pressure sensitive pickup in contact with the saddle for detecting the vibration of the saddle caused by a vibration of at least one of the guitar strings at the saddle;the recess being having a first surface in the recess facing in the direction of extension of the strings and facing toward the saddle in the recess; the saddle having a second surface thereon also facing in the direction of the extension of the strings and facing opposite to the first surface; at least one of the first and second surfaces being shaped with respect to the other of the first and second surfaces at first regions directly below each of the strings passing over the saddle such that, in the first regions along the saddle across the strings directly below each of the strings, the first and second surfaces are out of contact, while at second regions along the length of the saddle between the first regions and not the directly below the strings, the first and second surfaces are in contact, whereby vibrations of the strings and the saddle at the first regions are not transmitted directly to the bridge body.