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7851685 |
Fingering mechanism for woodwind instruments
A fingering mechanism for a woodwind instrument that comprises a first key that actuates both a first tone hole, corresponding to the first key, and another remote tone hole. By closing the first...
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7825317 |
Foodstuff-based wind instrument
Wind instrument made of flour based foodstuff, such as dried dough for the preparation of pasta, the wind instrument formed as a tubular envelope defining a cavity with two ends, where the first...
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7816595 |
Methods of constructing and tuning ocarinas
Improved methods for tuning ocarinas to extend their capabilities, musical ranges, and ease of use. Ocarinas having enhanced fingering patterns using subholes, split toneholes, additional...
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7799980 |
Ocarina
An improved ocarina for providing improved tonal quality with better maintenance of said tonal quality. Ocarinas are generally oval in shape with finger holes on one side and thumb holes on the...
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7772472 |
Fipple flute made active by a brass instrument mouthpiece
In a fipple flute, an instrument body includes an outer surface defining an interior resonating cavity. An airway extends from the outer surface into the resonating cavity and includes an adaptor...
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7700863 |
Instrument
A wind instrument, includes: a hollow tube having an open lower or distal end; a mouth hole formed in an upper or proximal portion the tube; a first set of holes including three holes formed in the...
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7678980 |
End blown flute having an acoustic air space
The present invention is directed to musical instruments that are based on the operation of an air reed and, in particular, encompasses end-blown flutes comprising an acoustic air space and a fluid...
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7476793 |
Foster extension for flutes
A flute attachment which improves and enhances the harmonic capability of a flute by lengthening the resonant chamber of the standing wave. The instant invention ‘fine tunes’ the harmonic range of ...
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7420109 |
Musical instrument tone hole forming tool and method
A novel musical instrument tone hole forming tool. A body includes a distal end to be inserted transversely into a musical instrument through an opening therein. The distal end of the body includes...
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7375270 |
Transverse whistle flute and method of playing
A musical instrument similar to the traditional flute but easier to play and master has been designed as an introductory flute. The whistle flute can also be used by those who have had difficulty...
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7112734 |
Effects of flow improvement in tapered design
The present invention is directed to an improved flute-type instrument having a reduced bore diameter in the head section, a conical bore in the intermediate section and a standard sized bore...
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6914179 |
Flutes with multiple chambers that share compound bisected toneholes
One exemplary embodiment of a flute comprises first and second chambers in which sound is resonated and a tonehole disposed at and shared by the first and second chambers. The tonehole is coverable...
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6872876 |
Ocarinas with an inner liner and an outer shell
One embodiment of an ocarina has an inner liner that includes a plurality of apertures and an outer shell disposed substantially completely around the inner liner. In one exemplary embodiment of...
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6852917 |
Construction and method of wind musical instrument
An associated method of construction and fabrication of organ windpipes and wind musical instruments utilizing composite materials. The fiber reinforced composite construction is a combination of...
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6812391 |
Wear protection for musical wind instruments
A modification to musical wind instruments is provided which utilizes placement of interface inserts between sections of the instrument which come into contact with each other during normal...
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6670534 |
Damped tensor ring
This consists of a spring (2.1) that raises or descends an turning the screw (2.2), which becomes endless to move the riveted nut (2.3) that, in turn, serves as a closure of the spring. On the...
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6660919 |
Regulator for the controls the timbre and the volume of flute sound
This invention is of a mechanism which controls the timbre and the volume of flute sound. More concrete explanation of the device is as follows. This device enables the players to control the...
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6348647 |
Fipple flutes having improved airways
In a fipple flute, an instrument body includes an outer surface defining an interior resonating cavity. An airway extends from the outer surface into the resonating cavity and includes a nozzle...
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6259010 |
Piccolo
The present invention is directed towards an improved piccolo. The present invention incorporates several innovative design features that collectively enhance the sound and notes produced by the...
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6255570 |
Vessel-shaped flute with a captive cap
A vessel-shaped flute has a body and a captive cap. The cap is pivotally attached to the body with a pivot pin. A through hole is defined through the pivot pin. Consequently, the cap can cover the...
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6242678 |
Musical instrument open hole cup plug, plug removal/storage tool, and kit
A musical instrument open hole cup plug, a plug removal/storage tool, and a kit which includes the tool and a number of the open hole cup plugs. Each plug includes spaced upper and lower circular...
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6124538 |
Musical instrument
A musical instrument made in whole or in part of titanium and its alloys. Titanium instruments tend to be lighter than other instruments made of other materials like silver and/or gold....
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D427228 |
Flute
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6060654 |
Acoustical apparatus sound system
An acoustical ring and bell sound system 10 for use with a variety 101, 102, 103 of musical wind instruments 100; wherein, the sound system comprises an acoustical ring element 21 and an acoustical...
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6034312 |
Open hole flute plug with tactile aesthetic and acoustical properties
Novel plug devices having tactile and aesthetic properties are disclosed that effectively close the opening within a flute's open-hole key cup, simplify the fingering necessary to play the...
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5990398 |
Key-pad operating mechanism of saxophone
A key-pad operating mechanism of the saxophone for forcibly separating a normally closed key-pad from the tone hole seat via an arm using the leverage principle by pressing the operating lever for...
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5898116 |
Plate assembly for woodwinds
An improved plate assembly of woodwinds comprising a body being longitudinally provided with a plurality of tone holes is provided. Each of the tone holes is provided with a pair of posts at both...
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5844156 |
Head joint for a flute
A flute head joint in which the riser contains a gold blowing edge or blowing edge of any other suitable material. This eliminates the need to provide for a 360 degree precisely matched interface...
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5808218 |
Expressive musical instrument with which accurate pitch can be played easily
A musical instrument, for example a flute, whose hole locations are a compromise in order to produce all notes of a scale, has note-identification switches on the keys, whose combination identifies...
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5796022 |
Helical air path induction in wind instruments
A wind instrument is described which includes an elongated tubular body and a helical member in the tubular body extending longitudinally therein for inducing a helical airflow in the tubular body...
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5780757 |
Acoustical ring and bell sound system
An acoustical ring and bell sound system 10 for use with a variety 101, 102, 103 of musical wind instruments 100; wherein, the sound system comprises an acoustical ring element 21 and an acoustical...
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5708226 |
Thumb key for flutes and piccolos
An improved design for the thumb key assembly for flutes and piccolos. This design allows for longer tubing to be used in the assembly without requiring a larger space, resulting in a mechanism...
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5524520 |
Briccialdi B flat thumb key mechanism for a woodwind instrument
A Briccialdi B flat thumb key mechanism for a woodwind instrument having a B key including a cup part and a lever part and movable around an axle, and a lever rockingly movable around the same axle...
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5435221 |
Flute mouthpiece
In a flute mouthpiece in which the inner surface of a hole on this side, on which the lip is to be placed, is made to extend downward into a head pipe to form, on the inner wall of said head pipe,...
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5309807 |
Flute
A flute has a tubular body having a plurality of openings therein, a plurality of flaps, a secondary flap, and mechanisms for moving each of the plurality of flaps and the secondary flap. The...
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5261308 |
Mouthpiece of flute
In a mouthpiece of flute, a projective tongue piece is formed in a position where the inner surface of a hole on the side on which a lip is to be put meets the inner surface of a head pipe so as to...
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5241890 |
Speaker vent
In a woodwind instrument, the improvement comprising a speaker vent extending from inside to outside of the instrument, said speaker vent being characterized by an internal volume in the range of...
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5107740 |
Flute mouthpiece with adjustable core gap
In a flute mouthpiece the core has an upper section which points towards the interior of the mouthpiece, which is pivotably journalled and which can be adjusted in the vertical direction by an...
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5105705 |
Flute headjoint
A flute headjoint having a lip plate in which a portion of the blow edge is stepped to impart different heights to the blow hole. The blow hole has an inward protrusion beginning at the blow edge...
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5014585 |
End blown flute with standard keying
An end-blown flute comprising a hollow tube open at both ends with an embouchure at the upper end of the tube to provide an end-blown free air-reed. The tube has at least 13 tone holes through the...
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4998456 |
Body construction of a wind instrument and procedure for producing a wind instrument with said construction
The present invention concerns the body structure of a wind instrument and a procedure for making a wind instrument body presenting said structure. The body of a wind instrument, such as a flute,...
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4979421 |
C♯ key roller for foot tube of flute
A C♯ key roller for the foot tube of a flute is disclosed which is constructed such that a connector shaft hole within the connector is made in the form of a through hole by additionally p...
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4971759 |
Metallic material for flutes
In the composition of a Ag alloy type material used for production of flutes, a specified amount of at least one of Ni, Fe, Co and Cr or at least one of Mn, Ti, Zi and Si is added to suppress...
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4962007 |
Flute tubing of laminated metal including a bonded layer of precious metal alloy
A musical instrument (for example, a flute) or a musical instrument segment (for example, a flute headjoint) having tubing made of a mechanically unitary laminated metal tube which has at least one...
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4957029 |
Action for a wind instrument
The invention concerns an action (1, 2) for a wind instrument, comprising keys (6) pivoted turnably relative to the body (3) of the instrument, holes (5) in the body being openable and closable...
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4922793 |
Mouthpiece plates of flute-type wind instruments
A mouthpiece plate for a flute-type wind instrument is disclosed. The mouthpiece plate or a portion thereof is pivotable or movable to provide for incremental adjustments of the movable portion to...
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4909123 |
Fingering guide and performance accessory for woodwind instruments
An instructional aid support and protective accessory for use with woodwind instruments which includes an elongated body portion which extends in substantially parallel and covering relationship...
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4896579 |
Flute headjoint
A flute headjoint having superior playing characteristics, said headjoint comprising a lip plate coupled to a headjoint tube by means of a chimney, the lip plate, chimney bore and headjoint tube...
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4882968 |
Trill mechanism for wind instrument
A trill mechanism for a wind instrument such as a flute or a piccolo which assures production of clear sounds of a stabilized tune with a clear fundamental tone with minimized noises upon trill...
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4819538 |
Flutes
Novel flutes based on present-day standard flutes devised long ago by Boehm have a finger piece for the key of the C-sharp venting hole over the key for the B venting hole, thus being close to the...
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