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US 9,286,866 B2Granted
Drum and method for tuning and making a drum
AssigneeFugate Instruments
InventorsBrett Fugate, Kevin Fugate, Jerry Fugate
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Abstract
A drum having a vibratory member(s) tensioned over a plurality of tuned staves which acts as a sounding board and having staves which may be joined together with one or more flexible lines. The invention also includes a method of making such a drum and includes variations in the bearing edges of the tuned staves for such a drum.
Claims14
A drum shell comprising an array of staves arranged side by side in the form of a cylinder, said staves being tuned to a selected frequency, wherein flexible line means biases said staves together,
- wherein said staves when excited vibrate and cause said staves to move away from one another, and when not excited cause said staves to be brought together by said flexible line means arranged side by side together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.