Unique and Interesting Early Guitar Patents

Unique and Interesting Early Guitar Patents

There is no particular rhyme or reason to these, they are just patents I found interesting among the many musical instrument patents

1895

• 542788 - Double Neck Guitar - G Almcrantz
• 546374 - Guitar with Strings on Both Sides - Elvin Babbitt
• 542561 - Banjo/Guitar - H I Holcomb
• 549966 - Metal Bowlback Mandolin with Removable Fretboard - C W Hutchins
• 550529 - Heart-Shaped Guitar - L E Pyle
• 542719 - Musical Instrument String - Emanuel Wahner
• 532053 - Guitar Tuning Machines - H W Hafer and J O Love
• 534063 - Guitar Tuning Machines - H W Hafer and J O Love
• 551450 - Floating Flat Top Bridge - A Renner Jr

1898

 

• 600507 - Reinforced Neck - F B Bremerman 
• 602337 - Tailpiece - R E Lackerner
• 602695 - Guitar with Bolt On Neck - Peter Casolin
• 609715 - Tuning Machines - Emil Wettengel

1909

• 921127 - Mandolin Violin Thing? - G T Lewis
• 921507 - Violin or Cello with Horn - S W Buercklin
• 922921 - Different way of securing Violin pegs - A S Leslie
• 937121 - Double Neck Guitar with Push Buttons - N Turturro
• 921565 - Push Button Guitar Player - Edward J Scarlett

1912

• 1061877 - Gibson mandolin Pickguard - A Shutt