Handpan
AssigneeRoland Meinl Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG
InventorUdo Heubeck
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Abstract
A handpan comprises a hollow base body, composed of a lower shell and an upper shell, each in the form of a spherical segment, which are connected to one another, preferably glued, at their mutually facing outer edges, a basic tone field preferably arranged centrally on the upper shell, further tone fields arranged annularly on the upper shell, preferably around the basic tone field, a resonance opening in the lower shell, and at least one further resonance opening in the lower shell, wherein the at least two resonance openings are arranged decentrally in the lateral rising zone of the lower shell.
Claims15
A handpan, comprising
- a hollow base body, composed of a lower shell and an upper shell, each in the form of a spherical segment, which are connected to one another at mutually facing outer edges thereof,
- a basic tone field,
- further tone fields arranged annularly on the upper shell,
- a resonance opening in the lower shell, and
- at least one further resonance opening in the lower shell, wherein the at least two resonance openings are arranged decentrally in the lateral rising zone of the lower shell.
A handpan comprising:
- a hollow base body, composed of a lower shell and an upper shell, each in the form of a spherical segment, which are connected to one another at mutually facing outer edges thereof,
- a basic tone field,
- further tone fields arranged annularly on the upper shell,
- a resonance opening in the lower shell, and
- at least one further resonance opening in the lower shell,
- wherein the at least two resonance openings are arranged decentrally in the lateral rising zone of the lower shell,
- wherein the resonance openings have a same diameter, and
- wherein a central zone of the lower shell not occupied by the resonance openings in a surface dimension substantially corresponds to the diameter of the resonance openings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.