I offer a collection of about 700 (!!) patents around guitars, mandolins and also banjos from USA between 1850 and 1980 (all in english).

All patents are complete, that means contain the full text and all (often beautiful and very informative - see example) drawings. All together there are around 2000 pages!

You will find information about the patent history of guitars and similar music instruments only here in this easily to handle, perfect kind!

The inventors / owners come mostly from USA (FENDER, Gibson, Dunlop, Moog, Dimarzio ..) but also from a lot of other contries in the world. The patents are busy mostly with guitars, but also with mandolins and banjo s or with parts/accessories of it (bridge, capodastro, plectrum, music rack attachment ...) and give a lot of detailed technical informations.

Delivery is as patent collection of pdf files (*.pdf) on a CD (not as a book). In order to see and to print the files you need only the wellknown Acrobat Reader or a similar programme.

Also included is an Excel list with patent numbers, datas of issue, patent titles and for the patents after 1920 also inventors/owners of the patent. The list is linked directly to the patent files so that each patent will be open easily if you click on the link.

It is not really a problem if you do not have the programme Excel from Microsoft. Look for "Excel Viewer" at google and you will find freeware version of an Excel Viewer programme. So you can open and print the Excel table without problem!

Of course you can open each patent file also direct without using of the Excel table!!