Patent ID: 7265282

Claim:
A universal mount for acoustically coupling a musical instrument tuner to an instrument, comprising: a tuner sphere with a tuner post fixed to the tuner; a clamp sphere with a clamp post fixed to a clamp, the clamp being for acoustically coupling the tuner to the musical instrument; a link having a central tubular section between two retainment sections at opposite ends of the link, one of the two retainment sections being a tuner end retainment section and the other of the two retainment sections being a clamp end retainment section; a coil spring enclosed within the central tubular section; the tuner sphere being retained within the link by the tuner end retainment section and the clamp sphere being retained within the link by the clamp end retainment section; the coil spring being in a compressed state, such that the coil spring biases the tuner sphere and clamp sphere into their respective retainment sections; and the coil spring having a free length and spring rate sufficient to permit the tuner sphere and clamp sphere to be repositionable within their respective retainment sections upon application of external force, yet fixed with respect to their respective retainment sections absent application of external force.