Patent ID: 7629523

Claim:
A supporting device in combination with a stringed instrument, the stringed instrument comprising: a body with a front face and a rear face joined by a top side and a bottom side extending between the front and rear faces in which each of the top and bottom sides extends in a longitudinal direction between a first end and a second end of the body; a neck extending in the longitudinal direction from the second end of the body and strings spanning the front face and the neck, and the supporting device comprising: a cradle portion spanning wholly along the bottom side of the body from a first end of the cradle portion at the first end of the body in the longitudinal direction to a second end of the cradle portion towards the neck at the second end of the body; a wrap portion extending over the top side of the body opposite the cradle portion and being connected to the cradle portion so as to be arranged to secure the cradle portion along the bottom side of the body; the wrap portion extending fully about the body of the stringed instrument so as to be arranged to retain the cradle portion spanning wholly along the bottom side of the body from the first end of the body towards the neck at the second end of the body; the cradle portion being wholly located along the bottom side of the body spanning in the longitudinal direction from the first end of the body of the stringed instrument by the wrap portion; and a strap portion extending between respective first and second ends and being connected at the first end of the strap portion to the cradle portion adjacent the first end of the body and being connected at the second end of the strap portion to one of cradle portion or the wrap portion adjacent the second end of the body such that the body is arranged to be suspended by the strap portion; the wrap portion comprising strap member sections wrapped about the body of the stringed instrument such the wrap portion is secured about the body of the stringed instrument only by the strap member sections without any rigid fasteners; and the cradle portion being wholly located along the bottom side of the body of the stringed instrument and secured to the body only by the strap member sections without use of any rigid fasteners.