GUSLI Russian patent published in 2024 - IPC G10D1/12 

FIELD: musical instruments.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to Russian folk stringed musical instruments from the zither or lyre family, which is a resonator body with 5 to 20 strings stretched over it, and usually forming a diatonic scale, and, in particular, to classical gusli, trapezoidal academic gusli, to wing-shaped and lyre-shaped harps. The technical result is achieved by the fact that the gusli consists of a hollow body with a soundboard equipped with a resonator hole, with strings installed on the soundboard and a stand for transmitting sound vibrations directly from the strings to the soundboard, wherein the stand is removable and replaceable, has a complex shape with transverse and longitudinal sections, wherein each transverse section of the bridge supports the string and corresponds to a note or derivative note, and each longitudinal section is located in the space between the strings and connects the transverse functional sections into a single bridge.

EFFECT: increased ease of use when reconfiguring the gusli.

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