Appeal No. 2000-1161
Application No. 09/318,354
canceled and the rejection of claim 40 has been overcome by
the terminal disclaimer.
The present invention relates to a musical instrument
having a body portion, a neck portion and a head portion. A
plurality of strings extend from the body portion along the
neck portion to the head portion. At the head portion, each
of the strings is connected with a tuning device of a
plurality of tuning devices mounted on the head portion. Each
of the tuning devices includes a generally cylindrical string
post. The string posts extend through the head portion of the
musical instrument. The string posts have parallel central
axes disposed in a linear array. The central axis of each of
the string posts is disposed in a plane. The plane extends
perpendicular to parallel front and rear side surfaces of the
head portion. Each of the tuning devices includes an actuator
post. The actuators are manually rotatable to rotate the
string posts about their central axes to adjust tension in the
strings. The head portion has a linear edge portion and a
nonlinear edge portion. The linear and nonlinear edge
portions extend between the front side surface and rear side
surface of the head portion. The nonlinear edge portion has
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