This invention relates to musical instruments. Its use for mounting a solenoid above a string of stringed instrument for pressing this string to a specific fret of finger-board allows to simplify that mounting and ensure the absence of the knock at a moment of actuating the solenoid. The method is implemented in a stringed instrument bearing, above a finger-board thereof, a common plate having through-holes under each solenoid comprising a coil, within which coil a plunger adapted for axial movement being disposed, the plunger tapering to an output stud thereof for limiting a working travel of the plunger with a stopper ring displaced at a coil edge facing the string, the output stud having thickening at an end with elastic washers at both the side facing the string and reverse side. The method includes steps of: securing the solenoid at a separate plate; disposing the separate plate above the common plate so that the thickening of the output stud permeates the respective through-hole; fixing the separate plate above the common plate, using adjusting screws with elastic spacers put thereupon between the separate plate and common plate, until the string being pressed with the stud on supplying a working current to the solenoid coil; shifting the separate plate using the adjusting screws in such a location that the pressure of the string occurs, on supplying the working current to the solenoid coil, without a knock arisen from an impact made by the plunger taper with the stopper ring.

This invention relates to musical instruments. Its use for mounting a solenoid above a string of stringed instrument for pressing this string to a specific fret of finger-board allows to simplify that mounting and ensure the absence of the knock at a moment of actuating the solenoid. The method is implemented in a stringed instrument bearing, above a finger-board thereof, a common plate having through-holes under each solenoid comprising a coil, within which coil a plunger adapted for axial movement being disposed, the plunger tapering to an output stud thereof for limiting a working travel of the plunger with a stopper ring displaced at a coil edge facing the string, the output stud having thickening at an end with elastic washers at both the side facing the string and reverse side. The method includes steps of: securing the solenoid at a separate plate; disposing the separate plate above the common plate so that the thickening of the output stud permeates the respective through-hole; fixing the separate plate above the common plate, using adjusting screws with elastic spacers put thereupon between the separate plate and common plate, until the string being pressed with the stud on supplying a working current to the solenoid coil; shifting the separate plate using the adjusting screws in such a location that the pressure of the string occurs, on supplying the working current to the solenoid coil, without a knock arisen from an impact made by the plunger taper with the stopper ring.

Invention is an attachment to any stringed instrument with a neck and fretboard/fingerboard that enables the stringed instrument to play itself. The invention comprises of a picking system, a fretting system, and an interface that allows a user to select what music they would like to play on the stringed instrument. The picking and fretting systems are releasably attached to the stringed instrument. Permanent modifications to the stringed instrument are not required to install the automated string player attachments.

Invention is an attachment to any stringed instrument with a neck and fretboard/fingerboard that enables the stringed instrument to play itself. The invention comprises of a picking system, a fretting system, and an interface that allows a user to select what music they would like to play on the stringed instrument. The picking and fretting systems are releasably attached to the stringed instrument. Permanent modifications to the stringed instrument are not required to install the automated string player attachments.

A system for remotely generating sound from a musical instrument includes a calibration system to improve the quality of the sound produced by the musical instrument. In one embodiment, the system includes an input configured to receive a signal representative of the sound of a first musical instrument, an exciter for converting the signal to mechanical vibrations, a coupling interface for coupling the mechanical vibrations into a second musical instrument, and a calibration system for altering the signal sent to the exciter.

A system for remotely generating sound from a musical instrument includes a calibration system to improve the quality of the sound produced by the musical instrument. In one embodiment, the system includes an input configured to receive a signal representative of the sound of a first musical instrument, an exciter for converting the signal to mechanical vibrations, a coupling interface for coupling the mechanical vibrations into a second musical instrument, and a calibration system for altering the signal sent to the exciter.

A system for remotely generating sound from a musical instrument includes a linear exciter which may be configured as a brace for a sound board of the musical instrument. In one embodiment, the system includes an input configured to receive a signal representative of the sound of a first musical instrument, a linear exciter for converting the signal to mechanical vibrations, and a calibration system for altering the signal sent to the exciter.

A system for remotely generating sound from a musical instrument includes a linear exciter which may be configured as a brace for a sound board of the musical instrument. In one embodiment, the system includes an input configured to receive a signal representative of the sound of a first musical instrument, a linear exciter for converting the signal to mechanical vibrations, and a calibration system for altering the signal sent to the exciter.

A system for remotely generating sound from a musical instrument includes a linear exciter which may be configured as a brace for a sound board of the musical instrument. In one embodiment, the system includes an input configured to receive a signal representative of the sound of a first musical instrument, a linear exciter for converting the signal to mechanical vibrations, and a calibration system for altering the signal sent to the exciter.

A system for remotely generating sound from a musical instrument includes a linear exciter which may be configured as a brace for a sound board of the musical instrument. In one embodiment, the system includes an input configured to receive a signal representative of the sound of a first musical instrument, a linear exciter for converting the signal to mechanical vibrations, and a calibration system for altering the signal sent to the exciter.