Patent ID: 7230175
Filing Date: 2007-06-12
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A finger exercising device for players of stringed instruments, comprising: a) an integrally formed single body of material defining a handle, a neck extending from the handle and having a front face, and a fingerboard on the front face of the neck; b) the handle configured for grasping by a strumming hand of the player, wherein the handle has an end portion and an intermediate portion between the end portion and the neck, the end portion having a larger thickness or width dimension than the intermediate portion, the intermediate portion having a rear face on an opposite side of the body of the front face and defining at least one finger or thumb wrap recess for wrapping fingers of the strumming hand around the handle, wherein when the user holds the handle in the strumming hand the fingerboard registers to a position oriented for use by a fingering hand of the player; c) the fingerboard configured to correlate to only a partial length of a fret-board of the stringed instrument for practicing fingering by the fingering hand of the player, wherein the fingerboard includes embossed string ridges and embossed fret ridges corresponding to strings and frets of the fret-board of the stringed instrument; and d) the body material selected so that the string ridges have a hardness and resiliency that provides a tactile pressure resistance when the player presses on them with fingers of the fingering hand such that each section of the string ridges between two of the fret ridges is resiliently depressible independent of all the other string ridge sections, wherein the hardness and resiliency are selected for mimicking the feel and pressure of fingering the stringed instrument without regard to pressure needed to close switches and produce sounds, wherein the tactile pressure resistance is substantially the same as actual resistance of the strings of the fret-board of the stringed instrument in order to simulate fingering the stringed instrument but without making any discernable sound.