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US 4,428,271 AGranted
Method and means for attaching reed to wind instruments
OwnerThomas W. Winslow, John G. Winslow, IIIinventors
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Abstract
A ligature for single reed wind instruments is configured with independently and adjustably loaded, resiliently urged posts for contacting and retaining the reed against the instrument mouthpiece, thereby providing enhanced vibrational and response characteristics to the mouthpiece assembly.
Claims11
A ligature for a single reed musical wind instrument comprising in combination
- a band for encircling the mouthpiece body of a wind instrument wherein said band is provided with means for tightening and loosening clamping pressure exerted thereby,
- a plurality of orifices oriented substantially perpendicular axially to surface tangency with said band,
- at least one post detachably interchangable and selectively disposed among said orifices extending through one said orifice for contacting and securing a reed on a wind instrument mouthpiece body wherein said post embodies an extremity configured as a contact point and comprises a material of selectively chosen resiliently yieldable properties configured and disposed for resiliently transmitting clamping force exerted by said band solely to said contact point independent of any other post, thereby to resiliently secure a reed on a mouthpiece body.
The method of securing a reed to the mouthpiece body of a musical wind instrument comprising the steps of
- positioning a flatted surface of said reed against a flat configured on a mouthpiece body,
- securing said reed in said position on said mouthpiece body by tightening a ligature to compress resilient yieldable means selectively disposed in at least one of several orifices in said ligature to exert force through at least one contact point against said reed, said yieldable means being discrete for each said contact point, thereby providing vibrational freedom for said reed and mouthpiece body greater than that provided by mounting means having single yieldable means which exert force on multiple contact areas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.