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Plectrum

US4398444A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 29, 1982
Grant dateAug 16, 1983
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 29, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10D3/173
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

The invention relates to a plectrum 1 or 10 which has means 2 or 11 which can strike a string of a stringed musical instrument a plurality of times during a single playing stroke. This provides an enchanced, more complicated, sound as compared to that produced by a single strike on a string.

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