Patent ID: 8319081

Claim:
A stringed musical instrument having the physical design of a six-string guitar that has a body, a neck, frets, a fret board on the neck, string anchors on the body and tuners at the end of the neck, comprising four guitar strings in the positions of strings 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 of the guitar and having the diameters expected for normal guitar strings and frets placed on the neck in the position expected for the guitar; one banjo string in the position of string 5 and having the diameter expected of a banjo 5th string and a tuning expected of the banjo where the string has a capo type arrangement or tunneled string placed at the fifth fret position of the fretboard, limiting the sounding length of the string to the fifth fret; one bass guitar string having a diameter larger than any guitar string and a string guide along the playable length of the string allowing for guiding a string of diameter larger than that of a guitar string from the string anchor on the body to the nut to the sixth string tuner.