Musical instrument and acoustic transducer device
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorsShingo Ekuni, Tadaharu Kato
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Abstract
A musical instrument, including: an acoustic portion configured to generate sounds in accordance with a vibration; a plurality of soundboard braces attached to a flat surface of the acoustic portion; a bracket supported by two of the plurality of soundboard braces; and an acoustic transducer supported by the bracket and configured to vibrate the acoustic portion based on an acoustic signal inputted thereto, wherein the bracket is disposed so as to bridge the two of the plurality of soundboard braces, and the acoustic transducer vibrates the acoustic portion at a position between the two of the plurality of soundboard braces.
Claims8
A musical instrument, comprising:
- an acoustic portion configured to generate sounds in accordance with a vibration;
- a plurality of soundboard braces attached to a flat surface of the acoustic portion, each soundboard brace of the plurality of soundboard braces having an elongate shape such that a longer portion of each soundboard brace of the plurality of soundboard braces is parallel to the flat surface of the acoustic portion;
- a bracket supported by two of the plurality of soundboard braces;
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- an acoustic transducer supported by the bracket and configured to vibrate the acoustic portion based on an acoustic signal inputted thereto,
- wherein the bracket is disposed so as to bridge the two of the plurality of soundboard braces, and the acoustic transducer vibrates the acoustic portion at a position between the two of the plurality of soundboard braces, and
- wherein the two of the plurality of soundboard braces and the acoustic transducer directly contact a surface of the acoustic portion at distinct contact points on the acoustic portion.
An acoustic transducer device configured to vibrate an acoustic portion that generates sounds in accordance with a vibration, comprising:
- a bracket supported by two of a plurality of soundboard braces, the plurality of soundboard braces being attached to a plane of the acoustic portion, each soundboard brace of the plurality of soundboard braces having an elongate shape such that a longer portion of each soundboard brace of the plurality of soundboard braces is parallel to the plane of the acoustic portion;
- and
- an acoustic transducer supported by the bracket and configured to vibrate the acoustic portion based on an acoustic signal inputted thereto,
- wherein the bracket is disposed so as to bridge the two of the plurality of soundboard braces, and the acoustic transducer vibrates the acoustic portion at a position between the two of the plurality of soundboard braces, and
- wherein the two of the plurality of soundboard braces and the acoustic transducer directly contact a surface of the acoustic portion at distinct contact points on the acoustic portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.