Slide guitar

摘要

Slide guitar for providing various improvements and advantages including instant accurate string height adjustments simultaneously at the nut and bridge. The slide guitar has a marked adjustment knob adjacent a graduated scale under the headstock to visually determine with repeated mathematical accuracy the exact distance between the bottom of the strings and the top of the first fret as a point of reference. The improved string musical instrument includes a leveling head embedded into portions of the headstock and neck wherein the leveling head contains a slide selector having a sloped surface for contacting the nut combined with a dual bridge for instantly changing the instrument's string height and bridge type. The slide guitar instantly changes from a conventional type guitar to a steel type guitar creating an improved variable string action slide guitar.

主权项

1. A stringed musical instrument comprising an apparatus for adjusting string height of the stringed instrument, the stringed instrument having a body, a headstock, and a neck interconnecting the headstock and the body, and a nut on the neck for providing support for the strings, comprising:
a) an assembly, said assembly capable of being mounted in the neck, said assembly being configured to raise and lower strings of the stringed instrument; b) said assembly comprising a housing, said housing having a channel therein; c) a receptacle disposed on an upper surface of said housing, said receptacle for receiving a nut; d) a sliding member disposed within said housing having an upper sloped surface on which a bottom of said nut can rest, wherein said sliding member is movable within said channel; e) an adjustment member attached to a bottom of said sliding member; and, f) said adjustment member being movable rearwardly and forwardly along with said sliding member to raise and lower said nut riding on said sloped surface to raise and lower the strings for producing different string actions of the stringed instrument.