Invention # 1
CA 2335871 A1 · Owner: Rogers, Brett Allan · Inventors: Rogers, Brett Allan
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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In the field of music, this invention provides a new method of physically controlling the sound (or signal) output of an electric guitar. When the guitar is moved in any way the invention causes a directly , proportional signal change to occur, according to the direction and force of the movement of the, guitar. This change of sound is controlled by the way that the musician holds the guitar, in reference to the force of gravity. The device itself does not need to be touched. The device is attached to the volume or tone control potentiometer of an electric, guitar so that it hangs down like a pendulum "freezing" the potentiometer , into place. The guitar neck (the long thin part of a …
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- Filed February 9, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 9, 2021.
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