Muffler for pianos
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
InventorMuneo Ishida
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a mechanism capable of simply making a low sound volume performance on the piano, and more particularly to a muffler for pianos, which includes a flat muffler member of a cushioning material provided slidably on a damper guide holder, and which is adapted to make a low sound volume performance on the piano by striking strings by hammers with the flat muffler member of a cushioning material advanced to a position between the hammers and strings, and a regular sound volume performance thereon by striking the strings by the hammers directly with the muffler member slidingly retreated to its normal position.
Claims4
A muffler for pianos, comprising a slide plate provided on a damper guide holder fastened to the upper surface of a front end portion of a sound board on a piano body, in such a manner that said slide plate can be moved slidingly in the string extending direction (longitudinal direction), and a flat muffler member fixed to a front end portion of said slide plate and consisting of a cushioning material provided in a rear half portion thereof with slits through which damper wires in a damper mechanism are passed, said muffler member being set controllable so that said muffler member is moved into and out of a spatial range close to strings, in which spatial range hammers operated by piano keys make string striking actions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.