Patent ID: 7342161
Filing Date: 2008-03-11
Classification: G10D

Abstract:
1. A hollow body stringed musical instrument comprising: strings; a hollow body having a two and three layer constructed soundboard having a generally uniform thickness planar configuration with a sound orifice defined therethrough, affixed generally perpendicular to a side, which is affixed generally perpendicular to a back where said side maintains said back and said soundboard in a spaced relationship; a neck with a fretboard, a head, a nut, and string tuning pegs thereon; and a bridge assembly of a bridge, saddle and string retention pegs; wherein said neck is affixed to said body so as to form a common longitudinal axis, and said bridge assembly is affixed to said soundboard such that strings connected between said bridge assembly and said tuning pegs reside substantially parallel to said longitudinal axis and above said sound orifice, wherein said soundboard is constructed in an adhesively affixed, two and three layer configuration of the first, second and third layers or first and third layers, having a first layer of wood having an outer surface and an inner surface and said inner surface has a contoured depression thereon such that corresponds to a thickness and a contoured configuration of said second layer, a second layer of continuous hollow hexagonal cell shapes made from a paper product, and a third layer made of wood, such that a grain of said first layer resides with its longitudinal axis perpendicular to a grain of said third layer, and further, wherein said soundboard has a uniform thickness and is contoured about a 12 to 15 foot radius.