US Patent Issued on Dec. 30 for "Neck and fretboard modification and method of tuning to facilitate play" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,082, issued on Dec. 30.

"Neck and fretboard modification and method of tuning to facilitate play" was invented by Moshe Y. Friedman (South Fallsburg, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modifications to the neck and fretboard of stringed instruments to enable methods of play involving same-note tuning of a plurality of strings for increased ease of learning and to facilitate play."

The patent was filed on June 16, 2023, under Application No. 18/210,757.

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