Stringed musical instrument that can be played by two musicians simultaneously

摘要

The present invention comprises a novel stringed musical instrument that can be played by two musicians simultaneously. The instrument comprises two instrument bodies with necks mutually joined about a common central cavity such that the instrument may be flexed about a common vertex located at the center of the central cavity. In the preferred embodiment, the instrument bodies are joined about a spherical resonant cavity and are joined at the center thereof by a joint mechanism allowing angular and rotational freedom of motion for the two instrument bodies with respect to each other. The invention is particularly suited to the guitar, and allows for a plurality of sounds produced from the two guitar bodies to be simultaneously focused and combined within the central resonant cavity. Therefore two musicians can engage in the playing of duets upon a single musical instrument. The shape of the guitar bodies may be such so as to enhance the focusing of sounds produced from respective sets of guitar strings toward the common vertex. A microphone or other sound transducing element may be positioned in the central cavity at the common vertex.