Simulated musical wind instrument
OwnerThomas Johnsoninventor
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Abstract
A simulated musical wind instrument takes the form of a tin whistle or recorder to channel a player's breath toward one or more sensors. In one embodiment, the simulated tin whistle includes a mouthpiece and a stem, and both may be realistically configured. The mouthpiece receives and channels a person's breath towards one or more pressure sensors while the stem includes additional sensors that are selectively touched by a player's fingers to non-audibly generate a musical song, in the simulated musical wind instrument, the mouthpiece may include various openings, sensors and other electronics for generating the non-audible music. Further, the mouthpiece may include a keyed locking member for referencing the mouthpiece when attaching it to the stem.
Claims18
A simulated musical wind instrument comprising:
- a stem having a plurality of sensors positioned so that a player's fingers can selectively engage the sensors;
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- a mouthpiece having a fipple section, a stern engagement section and a windway that extends through the fipple section and the stem engagement section, the fipple section having an inlet for receiving the player's breath, the mouthpiece configured with a vent opening sized to regulate air pressure from the breath, the stem engagement section having a pressure sensor configured and located to sample the breath from the windway.
A method of simulating a musical wind instrument, the method comprising:
- receiving air into a windway of a mouthpiece, the air initially received into a fipple section of the mouthpiece;
- compressing the air within the fipple section as the air travels down the windway;
- regulating the air through a vent located in the fipple section of the mouthpiece, the vent in fluid communication with the windway;
- sensing the air within a stem engagement section of the instrument, wherein sensing the air includes sampling the air from the windway to periodically measure a static air pressure of the windway;
- processing data from the measured, static air pressure;
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- transmitting the processed data to a computing device.
A mouthpiece for a simulated musical wind instrument, the mouthpiece comprising:
- a fipple section having an inlet for receiving a player's breath and further having a vent opening sized to regulate air pressure from the breath;
- a stem engagement section;
- a windway that extends through the fipple section and the stem engagement section;
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- a pressure sensor in the stem engagement section, the pressure sensor configured to sample the breath from the windway to obtain a static air pressure measurement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.