Wind instrument having a modified tone-rich surface
AssigneeCannonball Musical Instruments
InventorsJames Wood, Tevis Laukat, Randal Clark
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Abstract
A wind instrument with improved tonal characteristics by positioning an octave hole, an octave key mechanism, and/or a water key on a surface of the wind instrument that is not a tone-rich region. The wind instrument may be a woodwind instrument such as a saxophone or a brass instrument such as a trumpet. The octave hole may be placed on a concave portion of a curve in the wind instrument. The octave hole may be covered by an octave key mechanism that opens the octave hole using the same fingering that would open an octave key in a typical wind instrument. The water key may be placed on a portion of the body of the wind instrument that is not a tone-rich region of the wind instrument.
Claims20
A wind instrument having a neck coupled to a body tube, in which a column of air may be vibrated to produce sound, wherein the neck comprises:
- a tenon for coupling with the body tube;
- a non tone-rich region of the neck;
- an octave hole located on the non tone-rich region;
- and
- a key mechanism used to selectively uncover the octave hole.
A wind instrument with improved tonal characteristics, comprising a non tone-rich region, and a water key on the non tone-rich region.
A method for improving a tonal characteristic of a wind instrument, wherein the method includes the steps of:
- locating a tone-rich region on the instrument;
- and
- placing an octave hole on a surface of the instrument that is not the tone-rich region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.