Patent ID: 7851684

Claim:
A string anchor bracket for anchoring a plurality of strings on a stringed musical instrument, the musical instrument having a bridge with a bridge plate and a plurality of holes through the bridge including the bridge plate, and each of said strings having a string diameter and an enlarged end sized to pass through one of said bridge holes in anchoring said string to said musical instrument bridge under string tension, the improvement comprising an anchor bracket plate with a bottom and with a top adapted to mount to the bridge plate and a plurality of notches spaced apart on an anchor bracket plate forward edge such that the notches align with holes in a guitar bridge when the anchor bracket plate is mounted to the bridge plate, and a depending member on each side of each notch depending from the bottom of the anchor bracket plate at a plate forward edge resulting in a slot between each pair of adjacent depending members that leads to the notches, wherein the anchor bracket is thus adapted to mount to the bridge with the notches aligned with corresponding bridge holes such that for each string, the string can pass through into a said bridge hole and through the slot and the string enlarged end can be manipulated below the notch such that when the string is pulled upward through the bridge hole, the string enlarged end is pulled against the anchor bracket plate, further comprising a stability arm extending from an anchor bracket plate rearward portion at each plate end and extending forward of the depending members, the stability arms forming an anchor bracket plate forward portion, where the depending members divide anchor bracket plate forward and rearward portions.