Patent ID: 7638697

Claim:
An apparatus for coupling strings to a body of a musical instrument comprising: a base comprising: a plate having an upper surface; a first side wall having a first internal surface; a second side wall having a second internal surface at an acute angle relative the upper surface of the plate and at least one threaded aperture formed therein through the second internal surface; and an end wall including at least one channel formed therein; and a plurality of adjustment assemblies, each of the plurality of adjustment assemblies abutting at least one other adjustment assembly of the plurality of adjustment assemblies and each adjustment assembly of the plurality comprising: a first structure disposed on the upper surface of the plate; a second structure slidably coupled with the first structure, a surface of the second structure defining a saddle for a string; a first adjustment screw threadably coupled to the first structure and the end wall, the first adjustment screw positioned and configured to displace the first structure relative the end wall along a first axis upon rotation of the first adjustment screw; and a second adjustment screw disposed between and coupled to the first structure and the second structure, the second adjustment screw positioned and configured to slidably displace the second structure relative to the first structure upon rotation thereof; and a wedge member having a sloped surface and at least one aperture therethrough; and wherein the sloped surface of the wedge member abuts the second internal surface of the second side wall and at least one third adjustment screw extends through the at least one aperture of the wedge and threadably couples with the at least one threaded aperture formed in the second side wall and the wedge member; and wherein each of the plurality of adjustment assemblies is at least partially disposed between the first side wall and the wedge member, the first internal surface of the first side wall abuts one of the plurality of adjustment assemblies and the wedge member abuts another one of the plurality of adjustment assemblies.