Patent ID: 7476792

Claim:
A guitar slide ring, for contacting strings disposed near a fingerboard of a stringed musical instrument played by a musician in a slide style, comprising: an annular slide ring body of rigid material disposed coaxially about a central axis and configured with a through-opening dimensioned internally to engage a finger of the musician as a ring, the central opening extending to a pair of end edges, disposed one at each opposite end of said body and separated incrementally by a distance, measured between the end edges along a potential line of string contact thus an effective slide bar length ranging between minimum and maximum and adjustable by the musician rotating said slide ring about the finger; wherein said pair of end edges are shaped so as to be located in respective oppositely-inclined flat planes in mirror-image relationship about a plane perpendicular to the central axis, said end edges being thusly inclined equally in opposite directions and appearing in side view as a pair of straight oppositely-inclined lines extending between endpoints of a line at maximum slide bar length and corresponding endpoints of a diametrically opposite line at minimum slide bar length.