# US 5,710,385 A · Celestial chime box

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- Number: US 5,710,385 A
- Document ID: US5710385A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/242,861
- Filed: 1994-05-13
- Granted: 1998-01-20
- Earliest claimed: 1993-07-06
- Inventors: David Gregory Myler
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5710385A

## CPC

- G10D 13/08: Multi-toned musical instruments with sonorous bars, blocks, forks, gongs, plates, rods or teeth
- G10D: STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (organs, harmoniums or similar wind musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus G10B; pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards G10C; automatic musical instruments G10F; electrophonic musical instruments in which tones are generated by electromechanical means G10H)

## Abstract

The CELESTIAL CHIME BOX is a MUSICAL INSTRUMENT comprising of a number of metal tubes (F3), of graduated length and of varying pitch. The tubes are set up parallel to each other atop a wooden support box (F1) and are designed to produce the various notes of a musical scale when struck by a suitable playing stick (F4).

## Claims

### Claim 1

A musical instrument comprising;
a plurality tubes;
a base including a first side wall and an opposite second side wall;
a plurality of nails extending from each of said side walls; and,
a first elastic cord attached to each of said nails extending from said first side wall and a second elastic cord attached to each of said nails extending from said second side wall; each of said tubes being suspended parallel to each other by said cords between adjacent ones of said nails.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein:
each of said tubes having a hole through each end;
said first elastic cord passing through the hole of each of said tubes at a first of said ends;
said second elastic cord passing through the hole of each of said tubes at a second of said ends.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein said base being a trapezoidal wooden box having a closed bottom and an opposite open top.