Patent ID: 7825313

Claim:
An acoustical stringed instrument comprising: an acoustical instrument body, the body having an open interior defined by a top surface, a bottom surface, and a sidewall, the sidewall having an inner surface and an outer surface, a portion of the outer surface of the sidewall defining a recessed area; a mounting block having a shape corresponding to at least a portion of the recessed area and coupled to part of the recessed area, the mounting block positioned between at least a portion of an instrument neck having a light-system and the recessed area, the light-system having an electrical wire coupled thereto; a fingerboard having an elongated body and disposed on the instrument neck, the fingerboard having a bottom surface having a plurality of openings with wells extending from the openings toward but not through the top surface of the fingerboard, wherein the light-system has a plurality of light elements, each light element capable of producing illumination when energized by the light-system, wherein each light element is concealed beneath the top surface of the fingerboard that appears substantially uniform; and an aperture extending through the recessed area of the sidewall of the body, the aperture sized and shaped to provide passage of the wire of the light-system into the interior of the body, the aperture positioned such that it is concealed when the stringed instrument is assembled.