Swab for wind instruments
OwnerAnthony M. Gigliottiinventor
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Abstract
An improved swab for wind instruments for removing accumulated deposits of condensation within the instrument which if not removed can change the instrument tone, and in severe cases destroy sound production, producing a hiss or gurgling sound instead of a tone. The swab is made of highly absorbent silk, is not subject to jamming within the instrument, forcing moisture into the tone holes of the instrument, or leaving lint within the instrument, and includes a jam releasing pull-out tail.
Claims7
A musical wind instrument swab for removing moisture from the interior of a musical wind instrument of the type characterized by having a bell end, a barrel end, and an interior air passage extending through the instrument from the bell end to the barrel end, comprising in combination,
- a) a moisture absorbent washable silk fabric swab body of such configuration and dimensions as to be normally passable through said interior air passage of the wind instrument,
- b) a swab drawstrip fixedly attached to and extending in opposite directions from said swab body to define a drawstrip leading tail and a drawstrip following tail, each of said tails having a free end, and
- c) a weight affixed to the said free end of said drawstrip leading tail, said weight being of such dimensions and so affixed to said leading tail that it is freely passable from one end to the other through the interior air passage of the wind instrument with which it is to be used,
- whereby, the said weighted free end of said leading tail is insertable into the bell end of the instrument to lead and pull the swab through the instrument for emergence at the barrel end, said following tail following the swab body into the instrument and being utilizable in the event of a swab body jam within the instrument to release the jam by back pulling the swab by means of said following tail.
A musical wind instrument swab for removing moisture from the interior of a musical wind instrument of the type characterized by having a bell end, a barrel end, and an interior air passage extending through the instrument from the bell end to the barrel end, comprising in combination,
- a) a moisture absorbent rectangular swab body normally passable through said interior air passage of the wind instrument,
- b) a swab drawstrip fixedly attached to and extending in opposite directions from said rectangular swab body along a diagonal of said rectangular swab body to define a drawstrip leading tail and a drawstrip following tail, each of said tails having a free end, and
- c) a weight affixed to the said free end of said drawstrip leading tail, said weight being of such dimensions and so affixed to said leading tail that it is freely passable from one end to the other through the interior passage of the wind instrument with which it is to be used,
- whereby, the said weighted free end of said leading tail is insertable into the bell end of the instrument to lead and pull the swab through the instrument for emergence at the barrel end, said following tail following the swab body into the instrument and being utilizable in the event of a swab body jam within the instrument to release the jam by back pulling the swab by means of said following tail.
A musical wind instrument swab for removing moisture from the interior of a musical wind instrument of the type characterized by having a bell end, a barrel end, and an interior air passage extending through the instrument from the bell end to the barrel end, comprising in combination,
- a) a moisture absorbent elliptical swab body normally passage through said interior air passage of the wind instrument,
- b) a swab drawstrip fixedly attached to and extending in opposite directions from said elliptical swab body along the major axis of the ellipse to define a drawstrip leading tail and a drawstrip following tail, each of said tails having a free end, and
- c) a weight affixed to the said free end of said drawstrip leading tail, said weight being of such dimensions and so affixed to said leading tail that it is freely passable from one end to the other through the interior passage of the wind instrument with which it is to be used,
- whereby, the said weighted free end of said leading tail is insertable into the bell end of the instrument to lead and pull the swab through the instrument for emergence at the barrel end, said following tail following the swab body into the instrument and being utilizable in the event of a swab body jam within the instrument to release the jam by back pulling the swab by means of said following tail.
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