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US 9,792,887 B2Granted
Acoustic drum kit, and ensemble of musical instruments comprising such an acoustic drum kit
AssigneeSavarez
InventorDario Pinelli
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Abstract
An acoustic drum kit including a bass drum, a snare drum and a hi-hat stand, the base drum including two parts that are movable with respect to one another between a spaced-apart position, in which the snare drum is fixed removably to the bass drum and to the hi-hat stand such that the drum kit is in a playing configuration, and a compact position, in which the snare drum and the hi-hat stand are housed inside the bass drum, between the two parts thereof, such that the drum kit is in a storage and transport configuration.
Claims15
An acoustic drum kit (1), comprising
- a bass drum,
- a snare drum and
- a hi-hat stand,
- wherein the snare drum has a globally parallelepiped outer shape,
- wherein the hi-hat stand includes a base having a globally parallelepiped outer shape,
- wherein the bass drum includes two parts that are movable with respect to one another between:
- a spaced-apart position, in which the two parts of the bass drum jointly give the bass drum a globally parallelepiped outer shape and jointly define between them a free bass drum resonance volume that is substantially parallelepiped, and in which the snare drum is removably fastened to the base drum and to the base of the hi-hat stand such that the acoustic drum kit is in a playing configuration, and
- a compact position, in which the two parts of the bass drum jointly give the bass drum a globally parallelepiped outer shape and jointly define between them a housing volume which is substantially parallelepiped, which is smaller than the bass drum resonance volume and which is occupied by the hi-hat stand and the snare drum that is housed inside the base of the hi-hat stand, such that the acoustic drum kit is in a storage and transport configuration,
- wherein the bass drum and the snare drum are provided with first attachments suitable for removably fastening the snare drum on the bass drum in the playing configuration of the acoustic drum kit, and
- wherein the base of the hi-hat stand and the snare drum are provided with second attachments, which are separate from the first attachments and which are suitable for removably fastening the snare drum on the base of the hi-hat stand in the playing configuration of the acoustic drum kit.
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