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I am assuming those are stickers on the fretboard, indicating the notes. Kind of weird, kind of cool.
His grandfather? Or he is a time traveler? Web page here.
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I came across the Alabisa patent when I was working on the book, but I didn't include it. Here is the drawing from the patent application as well as pictures of a bridge and tailpieces. It takes the whole double loop end string idea of the Portuguese guitarra and adds another level of complication. Someone must have sent me the photos but I can't remember who! In theory, it should actually work and play in tune, but there is a lot of tension on those little rollers on the tailpiece and it would not take much for tuning catastrophes.
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This fits right into the tradition of Leonardo Da Vinci's war machine design.
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Or that of headlines in The Onion.
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Pretty darn clever. Wonder if it works.
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Inventions often turn a simple and functional design in something more complicate than how astronauts poop...
As Graham notes, the Preston tuners add the complication of double looping but this adds even more complication using strings twice the needed length thereby solving a problem (?) that really didn't exist.
Graham, do you have the patentee's description of what he was trying to do or at least a summation of that?
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Graham: do you have any clue of when this was patented? I don't see any dates on the patent you attached.
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Jim, No idea about the date. That one page with the drawings was all I was sent along with the photos. I think I did spend an hour or two trying to penetrate the Italian patent registration system on-line but it was all too hard and I went on to other things.
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Indeed, David. They look functionally similar to those on Portuguese guitarra/English guittar. There is one early Neapolitan I've seen with similar. I'll look for reference.
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