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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1995
Henry E Juszkiewicz, Nashville, TN (US);
Timothy P Shaw, Madison, TN (US);
Other;
Abstract
An intonation adjustment system is provided for a stringed instrument. A saddle setup tool has a plurality of selectable, distinctly spaced intonation points so that a preferred one of the selectable, distinctly spaced intonation points can be determined for each string of the instrument. Then a bridge saddle is constructed from a set of prefabricated candidate saddle segments by selecting a group of selected saddle segments making up the instrument saddle and providing the desired combination of intonation points as determined with the saddle setup tool. A pickup for an amplified instrument provides adjustable positioning of individual piezo-electric transducer elements so that relative volume outputs of the strings may also be adjusted.