Patent ID: 8173882

Claim:
A tremolo assembly of a stringed instrument, wherein the stringed instrument defines a hollow volume in an interior of the stringed instrument and includes at least one string and operation of said tremolo assembly is adapted to vary tension in the string, said tremolo assembly comprising: a tone block disposed within said hollow volume and operatively connected to said string; an arm extending from said tone block and disposed within said volume of space; a handle extending from said arm and spaced from said tone block and a part of said handle being adapted to be displaced relative to said arm to operatively cause said tone block to correspondingly vary the tension in the string; and a bridge plate that is attached to a surface of the stringed instrument, connected to said string and tone block, and operatively connected to said arm, wherein an interior of said tone block includes a connection mechanism that extends between said bridge plate and arm, operatively connects said bridge plate to said arm, and is adapted to pull said bridge plate away from and toward the surface of the stringed instrument to correspondingly vary the tension in the string upon the displacement of said part of said handle.