Electronic bass drum with integral supports
AssigneeNippon, Sakki, Seizo, Kabushiki, Kaisha
InventorToshinori Yamashita
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Abstract
An electronic bass drum is mainly constructed by two front legs which stand substantially vertically and are parallel to each other, two rear legs whose one ends are connected to the front legs and whose other ends extend obliquely downward, a pad whose back surface is fixed to the front legs and whose front surface is striken by a player and a pickup which is attached to the back surface. The pickup detects a vibration of the pad caused by the player's strike and outputs a detection signal representing electrically the vibration. Drum sound is realized by driving a sound source such as a PCM sound source, a FM sound source in response to the detection signal.
Claims8
An electronic bass drum comprising:
- supporting means for supporting said drum including a substantially vertical front supporter and a rear supporter having one end connected to said front supporter and another end extending obliquely downward;
- pad means for producing a mechanical vibration, a back surface of which is attached to said front supporter and a front surface of which is to be struck by a player, said front supporter extending downward further than a lower edge of said pad means;
- detecting means attached to said back surface of said pad means for detecting a mechanical vibration caused by a player's strike of said front surface of said pad means and for outputting a detection signal electrically representing said mechanical vibration;
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- an instrument housing attached to said supporting means that encloses at least a part of said supporting means and said pad means except for at least a part of said front surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.