Brass instrument
AssigneeAngel Horn Corp.
InventorsTakamitsu Iwahashi, Hitoshi Numata
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Abstract
A brass instrument includes a mouthpiece configured to convert vibrations of player's lips into sound and take the sound inside; a bell configured to magnify a volume of the sound taken by the mouthpiece and release the sound to the outside; and a main tube intervening between the mouthpiece and the bell, and is characterized in that the main tube includes a main tube body formed to spread out in a spiral manner in a state in which side surfaces of the main tube body are closely attached to each other, and a part of the closely attached side surfaces of one of the tubes constitutes a part of the side surface of the closely attached other tube.
Claims2
A brass instrument comprising:
- a mouthpiece configured to convert vibrations of player's lips into sound and take the sound inside;
- a bell configured to magnify a volume of the sound taken by the mouthpiece and release the sound to the outside;
- and,
- a main tube interposed between the mouthpiece and the bell,
- wherein the main tube includes:
- a main tube body formed to be spread out in a spiral manner on an identical plane with side surface in a closely attached state;
- and
- a main tube connecting part having a proximal end portion attached to the main tube body and a distal end portion overlapped with the proximal end portion in a thickness direction of the main tube body, the distal end portion being positioned on the side surface of the main tube body and being connected to a part on the mouthpiece side,
- wherein the main tube body is configured to make a part of the closely attached side surface on one side of the tube constitute a part of the closely attached side surface on the other side of the tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.