How We Got Started:

And

How It Works

 

I'm the inventor and have been playing the guitar for over 68 years. My life occupation has been in design engineering but my first love is still the guitar.

 

I purchased a brand new guitar a few years back from the factory, tuned it up and played one song on it and it immediately went out of tune. I wondered, why is this happening to a brand new high quality guitar?

 

This has been the case all of my life and I finally decided to focus my engineering skills on why this was happening.

By focusing and putting precision dial indicators on the strings, I found out that the going out of tune was occurring at the nut and not the bridge because the bridge was rocking and tilting ever so slightly. This slight movement was not the case with the nut which cannot move at all.

 

I then found that if a string moves at all at the nut by the smallest amount like .001 In. (1/3 of a hair) the tone of the string varies by one fret or 1/2 a tone. So, very little string movement causes a large out of tune condition to occur.

 

I didn't want to drills holes in my new guitar so I said, what if I were to clamp all the strings to each other, this should prevent all the strings from moving at the nut.

Well, I didn't think that would work but I decided to make a prototype and install it on my guitar anyways.

 

WELL IT WORKED !!!

 

Then I had to figure out why it worked and patent the idea.

Now we can keep guitars in tune while we play!