US Patent Issued on Sept. 22 for "Acoustic stringed musical instrument pitch changer system and related methods" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,020, issued on Sept. 22.

"Acoustic stringed musical instrument pitch changer system and related methods" was invented by Joseph Glaser II (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pitch changer system for an acoustic string musical instrument, including a lever assembly, a dual-string attenuation assembly, and a lever tensioning assembly. Applying force to move the lever in a first direction forces a bell crank of the lever assembly into rotation such that a coupling system of the lever tensioning assembly causes a swing plate of the dual-string attenuation assembly to force a string bending post of the dual-string attenuat...