Tone bar woody material, tone bar percussion instrument, and production method of tone bar woody material
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorsEri HIRAI, Kazuki SOGA, Tatsuya HIRAKU
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a tone bar woody material and a xylophone that are superior in acoustic characteristics and stable in quality. In the tone bar woody material of the present invention, at least a partial region of a surface layer of a wood material was impregnated with a resin composition, and the wood material comprises in the partial region, a plurality of pores each having an average diameter less than 1.2 times an average diameter of vessels in the wood material.
Claims8
A tone bar woody material, wherein
- at least a partial region of a surface layer of a wood material was impregnated with a resin composition, and
- the wood material comprises in the partial region, a plurality of pores each having an average diameter less than 1.2 times an average diameter of vessels in the wood material.
A tone bar percussion instrument comprising a tone bar woody material, wherein
- at least a partial region of a surface layer of a wood material was impregnated with a resin composition, and
- the wood material comprises in the partial region, a plurality of pores each having an average diameter less than 1.2 times an average diameter of vessels in the wood material.
A production method of a tone bar woody material, wherein at least a partial region of a surface layer of a wood material was impregnated with a resin composition, the production method comprising:
- forming a plurality of pores in the partial region of the wood material;
- impregnating with a resin composition the wood material comprising the plurality of pores formed therein;
- and
- hardening the resin composition with which the wood material had been impregnated,
- wherein
- the plurality of pores each have an average diameter less than 1.2 times an average diameter of vessels in the wood material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.