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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2001
Fred G. Hovermann, Jr., Vineland, NJ (US);
Peter J. Ferrara, Barnegat, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
An improved tuning peg construction for applying selective tension on a string of a musical instrument wherein the construction includes a tuning peg member having a threaded shaft adapted to engage the toothed gear on a tuning peg attached to one of the string of a musical instrument; wherein, the outboard end of the tuning peg member is provided with a contoured post that is received in a reciprocating fashion in a contoured recess formed in a tuning knob member which is normally spring biased into a free-wheeling spaced relationship with the tuning peg member until such time as the musician desires to change the tension on the string of the instrument