Easy guitar player

• US 10,140,885 B1
• Filed: 05/03/2017
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lawrence A. Norquest, Sheryl Norquest
• Original Assignee: Lawrence A. Norquest, Sheryl Norquest
• Inventors: Norquest, Lawrence A., Norquest, Sheryl
• Primary Examiner(s): Qin, Jianchun
• Application Number:
  US15/585,449
• Time in Patent Office: 573 Days
• Field of Search: 84317, 84315, 84286
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 15/026 Non-electrically operated
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 15/04 with sound emitters
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 1/08 Guitars
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 3/08 Fingerboards in the form of keyboards

Abstract

A fingering assembly positionable over strings of a guitar is formed of a housing with buttons and a plate. Each button has an upper end adapted to be contacted and depressed by a user. Each button has a lower end. The plate has a plurality of levers. Each lever has an upper surface adapted to be contacted and depressed by a lower end of one of the buttons. Each lever has a lower surface adapted to contact a string of the guitar in response to a depressing of an associated button.

Claims

1. An easy guitar player system for facilitating the fingering of guitar strings comprising, in combination:

a guitar having six strings S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6 adapted to be strummed to provide rhythm, the strings adapted to be fingered to distinguish notes, the strumming and fingering adapted to make music;

the guitar having three frets F1, F2, and F3 to form discrete areas on the strings to be fingered;

a fingering assembly including a housing in a generally rectilinear configuration with a top and a bottom and sides, resilient cords removably securing the housing to the guitar over the strings and over the fretś

;

the fingering assembly including nine buttons, B1 of color 1, B2 of color 2, B3 of color 3, B4 of color 4, B5 of color 5, B6 of color 6, B7 of color 7, B8 of color 8, B9 of color 9, each button having an upper end adapted to be contacted and depressed by a user, each button having a lower end;

the fingering assembly including a plate formed with three fret 1 levers L1, L2, and L3 positioned over strings S4, S5, and S6 respectively, the plate formed with five fret 2 levers L4, L5, L6, L7, and L8 positioned over strings S2, S3, S4, S5, and S6 respectively, the plate formed with five fret 3 levers L9, L10, L11, L12, and L13 positioned over strings S1, S2, S3, S5, S6 respectively, each lever adapted to be contacted by the lower end of an associated one of the buttons in response to depressing a button to resiliently bend and contact an associated one of the strings;

whereby;

when button B1 is depressed, string at fret F1 is contacted creating a C note;

when buttons B1 and B7 are simultaneously depressed, string at fret F2 is contacted creating an E note and also string S5 at fret F3 is contacted creating a C note and a full C chord;

when button B2 is depressed, strings S1 and S2 at fret F1 are contacted creating an F note and a C note and string S3 at fret F2 is contacted creating an A note;

when button B3 is depressed, string S2 at fret F2 and string at fret F2 and string S3 at fret F2 are contacted creating an A chord;

when button B4 is depressed, string S3 at fret F1 is contacted creating an G sharp note and also string S4 at fret F2 is contacted creating an E note and string S5 at fret F2 is contacted creating a B note and a full E chord;

when button B5 is depressed string S1 and S3 are contacted at fret F3 and also string S2 at fret F3 is contacted creating a D chord;

when button B6 and button B9 are simultaneously depressed, string S5 at fret F2 and will be contacted and also string S6 at fret F1 will be contacted and also string S1 at fret F3 will be contacted creating a G chord; and

when button B8 is depressed string S4 at fret F3 is contacted creating an F note which creates the full F chord.