Patent ID: 8378191

Claim:
An acoustic musical stringed instrument comprising: a hollow body; a neck extending from the hollow body and anchoring devices at an end of the neck; a soundboard with one or more soundholes, the soundboard being an integrated part of the hollow body; a bridge with an embedded bridge saddle attached to the soundboard; a plurality of strings anchored to the bridge saddle, the strings ranging successively from bass strings of low frequency to treble strings of high frequency, the strings extending over and contacting the bridge saddle, the strings continuing longitudinally to the anchoring devices at the end of the neck and having a string range division with a number of the bass strings grouped from one end across a section of the bridge saddle as a bass string range side and with a number of the treble strings grouped across the remaining section of the bridge saddle as a treble string range side, the bass and treble string range sides being acoustically coupled through the bridge saddle into the soundboard and respectively producing a bass sounding side to one portion of the soundboard and a treble sounding side to another portion of the soundboard; and a soundboard bracing structure including two blocks fixed to the underside of the soundboard to support the soundboard and the bridge saddle, each of the blocks having one of its sides positioned in alignment to and directly below the bridge saddle and another of its sides fixed and butted up to one of two longitudinal bar braces each positioned with one of their ends located below and either side of the bridge saddle and extending indirectly at an acute angle away from the line of the outermost strings, wherein the instrument has at least one of the soundholes under the strings, extending either side of this soundhole, with both other ends interconnected to a common transverse brace.