Electronic percussion instrument
AssigneeRoland Corporation
InventorKiyoshi Yoshino
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Abstract
There is provided an electronic percussion instrument including: a body part having an opening on at least one end side of the body part; a head that covers the opening of the body part; a hoop for applying tension to the head, a rim which is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the hoop and of which an upper end is positioned above an upper end of the hoop and of which a bottom surface is supported on an edge of the opening of the body part via the head; and a rim sensor that detects vibration generated when the rim is struck and is disposed in the body part.
Claims19
An electronic percussion instrument comprising:
- a body part having an opening on at least one end side of the body part;
- a head that covers the opening of the body part;
- a hoop for applying tension to the head,
- a rim which is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the hoop and of which an upper end is positioned above an upper end of the hoop and of which a bottom surface is supported on an edge of the opening of the body part via the head;
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- a rim sensor that detects vibration generated when the rim is struck and is disposed in the body part,
- wherein the hoop surrounds the rim from an outer circumferential surface of the rim.
An electronic percussion instrument comprising:
- a body part having an opening on at least one end side of the body part;
- a head that covers the opening of the body part;
- a rim of which a bottom surface is supported on an edge of the opening of the body part via the head;
- a rim sensor that detects vibration generated when the rim is struck and is disposed in the body part;
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- a hoop for applying tension to the head,
- wherein the rim is clamped between the head and the hoop and including a struck part that is disposed above the edge of the opening of the body part, wherein a bottom surface of the struck part and the edge of the opening of the body part are positioned at vertically overlapping positions.
A method of detecting vibration generated when a rim of an electronic percussion instrument is struck, comprising:
- using a head, covering an opening of a body part which has the opening on at least one end side of the body part;
- providing a hoop surrounding the rim from an outer circumferential surface of the rim;
- applying, using the hoop, tension to the head;
- disposing the rim on an inner circumferential side of the hoop, and supporting a bottom surface of the rim on an edge of the opening of the body part via the head so that an upper end of the rim is positioned above an upper end of the hoop;
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- disposing a rim sensor in the body part and detecting vibration generated when the rim is struck by the rim sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.