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US 9,040,794 B1Granted
Piccolo
OwnerKanichi Nagaharainventor
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Abstract
A piccolo comprising a conical-bore headjoint, and a cylindrical-bore main body having toneholes of particular size disposed at particular intervals along the length of the body.
Claims4
A piccolo comprising:
- a cylindrical body having a cylindrical bore therethrough;
- a headjoint removably attached to the cylindrical body, the headjoint having a conical bore, the conical bore having a same diameter as the cylindrical bore at a first end attaching to the cylindrical body, and a smaller diameter at an opposite end, the headjoint further defining an embouchure;
- and
- wherein the body further comprises a plurality of toneholes having the following respective distances from tonehole center from a lower end of the body, in inches:
- D#7 trill.-8.507
- D7 trill-8.161
- C#6-7.754
- C6-7.206
- B5-6.820
- A#5-6.390
- A5 upper-5.952
- A5 lower-5.511
- G#5-5.477
- G5-5.032
- F#5-4.498
- F5-3.966
- E5-3.424
- D#5-2.812
- D5-2.192
- C#5-1.591
- C5-0.877;
- wherein the distance of each tonehole center from the end of the body having a distance tolerance of approximately +/−0.020 inches.
19 more elements
A piccolo having a range between B5 to D#7 comprising:
- a cylindrical body having a cylindrical bore therethrough;
- a headjoint removably attached to the cylindrical body, the headjoint having a conical bore, the conical bore having a same diameter as the cylindrical bore at a first end attaching to the cylindrical body, and a smaller diameter at an opposite end, the headjoint further defining an embouchure;
- and
- wherein the body further comprises a plurality of toneholes wherein at least one of the plurality of toneholes has a tonehole center at a distance a lower end of the body, in inches selected from the group consisting of:
- D#7 trill.-8.507
- D7 trill-8.161
- C#6-7.754
- C6-7.206
- B5-6.820
- A#5-6.390
- A5 upper-5.952
- A5 lower-5.511
- G#5-5.477
- G5-5.032
- F#5-4.498
- F5-3.966
- E5-3.424
- D#5-2.812;
- D5-2.192;
- C#5-1.591;
- C5-0.877;
- wherein the distance of the at least one of the plurality of toneholes comprises tonehole center from the end of the body having a distance tolerance of approximately +/−0.020 inches.
19 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.