84 results about "Wind instrument" patented technology

A Wearable Trigger Electronic Music System that can be adopted for simulating any kind of music, anywhere, any time. As for example one can create all the benefits of the percussion instrument such as a drum kit but without the cost and burden of a drum kit. Same also applies to string, wind and other types of instruments of any nation, any culture, any motif, any era any age etc. The system includes all its constituent components including sensors, transducers, electronics, music module, pre-amps and amplifiers, wired or wireless to connections for intra and inter modules including final enjoyment by wired or wireless headphones or speakers. Also delineated is the process of creating music for the DIY enthusiast.

A tone control device applied to an electronic wind instrument realizes an octave-changeover-blowing technique in which the same note is produced with different octaves respectively by use of the same fingering state, thus increasing controllable ranges with regard to the tone volume, tone color, and tone pitch. A plurality of flow sensors are arranged in proximity to an edge with which a jet flow caused by blowing air into a blow hole of a lip plate collides within a tube of a wind instrument controller simulating an air-reed instrument. The flow sensors are horizontally arranged to detect a jet width, thus controlling the tone volume; and the flow sensors are vertically arranged to detect a jet eccentricity or a jet thickness, thus controlling the tone color. Ascending or descending of the tone pitch by octaves is controlled by use of the flow sensor and a jet length sensor.

An electronic musical instrument provides a player with an assisted performance to offer him / her the pleasure of performing on a musical instrument, and to help him / her in practicing the electronic musical instrument on which a tone pitch of a musical tone to be generated is determined in accordance with the operation of a combination of performance operators, as in the case of a wind instrument such as a trumpet. A number of operating modes are provided to allow the player to independently practice their ability with respect to one or more performance operators or to simply play the electronic musical instrument without an assisted performance.

In an apparatus for assisting play of a wind instrument, an actuator is attached to the wind instrument for vibrating a portion of the wind instrument so as to assist play of the wind instrument. A microphone receives a vibration of a sound generated by the wind instrument and generates a vibration signal representing the vibration of the sound. A breath pressure sensor detects a pressure of a breath that is blown into the wind instrument during the play thereof, and generates a breath pressure signal corresponding to the detected pressure of the breath. A controller generates a control signal corresponding to the product of an inverse value of an envelope of the vibration signal and a value of the breath pressure signal. A variable gain amplifier amplifies the vibration signal with a variable gain which varies in response to the control signal so that an output signal of the variable gain amplifier is provided to enable the excitation part to vibrate the portion of the wind instrument.

An improved ligature is provided for use on a mouthpiece of a woodwind-type musical instrument. The ligature comprises a flexible, trapezoidal body having two longitudinal slots, and a pair of ferrules terminating each end of the body. The body is a rubberized fabric with one side being smooth and the other defined by a textured pattern. A tightening mechanism draws the ferrules together and thereby tightens the flexible body about the mouthpiece of the instrument. Each of the ferrules is formed with a longitudinal notch, and the ends of the body terminate inside by crimping and / or gluing the body end inside. The operation of the tightening mechanism within the ferrules in combination with the flexible nature of the body serve to effectively isolate the instrument mouthpiece from direct contact with the ferrules, thereby improving tonal response. The instrument's tonality may be adjusted by placing the smooth or textured side of the body in direct contact with the instrument and varying the relative position of the body and ferrules with respect to the reed.

A synthetic reed for use in reed-blown wind instruments such as the clarinets, saxophones, oboes and bassoons may be made from an oriented thermoplastic material such as uniaxially oriented polypropylene. The reed may have a profile that is thinner near the tip and in the vamp than the profile of a cane reed of equivalent playing strength, and may be machined from an oriented polymer blank has a higher longitudinal modulus than that of said cane reed of equivalent playing strength.

Apparatus and methods for its use are provided that relate to an octave / register key for musical wind instruments that combines (i) a vent formed by alignment of an opening of a core and a sidewall aperture of a sleeve, wherein the core is slidably and coaxially mounted within the sleeve, or a vent formed by alignment of sidewall apertures on an inner chamber slidably mounted within an outer chamber, and (ii) the mechanism to open and close such a vent. The device, upon actuation, vents the wind instrument air column to remove the fundamental pitch frequency, and can be mounted anywhere on the body of a musical wind instrument or onto any existing tone hole key of the instrument.

The invention relates to a wood-treatment method comprising in situ polymerisation under electromagnetic radiation. The inventive method comprises the following steps, namely: a first step consisting in impregnating a piece of wood with organic monomers that are selected from among (A) drying oils and / or (B) at least one first reactant comprising at least two glycidyl functions and at least one second reactant comprising at least two primary amine or secondary amine -NH functions, the average functionality of all of the first and second reactants being strictly greater than 2; and a second step consisting in exposing the wood thus impregnated to electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength (lambda) of between 1 to 10<-3> metres over a total time of between 5 to 40 seconds and with a power of between 300 and 1000 Watts. The invention also relates to a piece which is made from wood / resin composite material and which can be produced using the above method and to the use of one such piece for the production of all or part of wind instruments, particularly clarinets, for marquetry, for joinery and for the construction of buildings and, in particular, roof frames.

Detection is made of a physical amount caused by operation performed on a mouthpiece with a human player's mouth, and a tone pitch corresponding to the detected physical amount is identified by referencing a memory storing information defining relationship between various ranges of the physical amount and tone pitches. Expected tone generating style is notified to the player based on the identified tone pitch. The memory contains a pitch table defining relationship between various ranges of the physical amount and tone pitches, and a gain table defining gain information corresponding to deviations of the physical amount from a predetermined reference point for each tone pitch and within the range of the physical amount corresponding to the tone pitch. For the detected physical amount, a tone pitch and gain information are identified by referencing the pitch gain tables, so that the identified tone pitch and gain information is notified.

A computer provides a graphical user interface that allows designers to design string instruments. The dimensions and shape of the string instrument design can be altered using controls. The wind instrument design can be stored in a database and transmitted to a 3 dimensional printer which can fabricate the string instrument.

A wind instrument, includes: a hollow tube having an open lower or distal end; a mouth hole formed in an upper or proximal portion the tube; a first set of holes including three holes formed in the tube for application of an index finger, a middle finger and a ring finger of an upper hand of a user; and a second set of hole including five holes formed in the tube for application of a thumb, an index finger, a middle finger, a ring finger and a pinky finger of a lower hand of the user. Another wind instrument, includes: a hollow tube having an open lower or distal end; a mouth hole formed in an upper or proximal portion the tube; a first finger support attached to and extending away from the tube; and a second finger support attached to and extending away from the tube.

A single reed ligature system for a woodwind musical instrument that provides a large vertical range of adjustment to enable a single ligature to be used with most sizes of saxophone and clarinet mouthpieces. Excellent responsiveness to the player is achieved through isolation of the ligature from the vibrating reed and mouthpiece.

The present invention is a hand-held musical pipe wind instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of a single reed and which replicates the relative scales and tone-hole arrangement employed on the Scottish Highland bagpipe chanter. In its most basic embodiment, this wind instrument consists of a saxophone reed and mouthpiece attached to the upper end of a tube and a flaring bell or sole attached to the lower end of the same tube. In this basic embodiment, the tube comprises a plurality of holes, known as tone-holes, disposed at locations along the length of the tube, which in playing are opened and closed successively in predetermined configurations to achieve changes in musical pitch.

A wind instrument with improved tonal characteristics by positioning an octave hole, an octave key mechanism, and / or a water key on a surface of the wind instrument that is not a tone-rich region. The wind instrument may be a woodwind instrument such as a saxophone or a brass instrument such as a trumpet. The octave hole may be placed on a concave portion of a curve in the wind instrument. The octave hole may be covered by an octave key mechanism that opens the octave hole using the same fingering that would open an octave key in a typical wind instrument. The water key may be placed on a portion of the body of the wind instrument that is not a tone-rich region of the wind instrument.

Tone synthesis apparatus synthesizes a tone of a wind instrument generated in response to vibration of a reed contacting a lip during a performance of the wind instrument. First arithmetic operation section solves a motion equation representative of behavior of the reed in an equilibrium state with external force acting on the lip and a second motion equation representative of behavior of the lip in the equilibrium state, to thereby calculate displacement yb(x), y0(x) of the lip and reed in the equilibrium state. Second arithmetic operation section solves a motion equation of coupled vibration of the lip and reed with calculation results of the first arithmetic operation section used as initial values of the displacement yb(x), y0(x) of the lip and reed, to thereby calculate the displacement y(x, t) of the reed. Tone is synthesized on the basis of the displacement y(x, t) calculated by the second arithmetic operation section.

An electronic wind instrument includes: a breath sensor; an operating element that receives an instruct related to a pitch; a casing to which the breath sensor and the operating element are provided; a bell having a tubular shape and facing the casing; and a first separate material body that forms a fixing member fixed to the casing and attached to an outer peripheral surface of the bell.

The invention provides drilling equipment for Li nationality wind instrument. The drilling equipment comprises a drilling supporting table, a position adjusting box is fixed to the top of the drilling supporting table, a rotating lead screw is horizontally arranged in an inner cavity of the position adjusting box, a servo motor is installed at the position, located on the right side of the position adjusting box, of the top of the drilling supporting table, and the output end of the left side of the servo motor is sleeved with a driving rotating wheel; the driving rotating wheel is sleeved with a connecting rotary rod, the left side of the connecting rotary rod rotationally penetrates through the side wall of the right end of the drilling supporting table and is fixed to the right side of a rotary lead screw, the outer wall of the rotary lead screw is sleeved with two sets of movable sliding sleeves in a threaded connection mode, and movable adjusting rods are fixed to the tops of the two sets of movable sliding sleeves and located above the position adjusting box to be sleeved with movable fastening sleeves; according to the invention, a movable sliding sleeve drives a movable adjusting rod and a movable fastening sleeve at the top to move horizontally, then different positions of the Li nationality blowpipe are punched, a second rotating sleeve is driven to rotate, the Li nationality blowpipe is driven to rotate, and then different angle positions of the Li nationality blowpipe are punched.

The invention relates to a musical instrument, particularly to a reed-pipe wind instrument. The reed-pipe wind instrument comprises a casing, a plurality of sound amplifying tubes and a plurality of reeds, wherein the sound amplifying tubes are inserted into the casing, and the reeds are arranged in the casing. The reed-pipe wind instrument is characterized in that a plurality of keys are arranged on the casing, the lower ends of the keys are connected with an expansion device capable of being communicated with an air chamber which comprises a main air chamber and an auxiliary air chamber, the main air chamber is communicated with an air inlet tube, and the auxiliary air chamber is communicated with the sound amplifying tubes through a sound producing tube. The wind instrument has the advantages that the expansion device is compressed to put the air in the main air chamber into the auxiliary air chamber which is connected with the sound amplifying tubes through the sound producing tube, the structure is simple, the production is convenient, primary sound amplifying tubes are additionally arranged on the basis of the sound amplifying tubes, therefore secondary sound amplification is achieved, the produced sound is large and mellow and full in tone.

An Improved Button of Wind Instruments is a kind of round button, which can be used for various wind instruments, such as soprano saxophones, alto saxophones, tenor saxophones, baritone saxophones and trumpets etc.; its characteristics contain: a bulge formed taking the center of button as the vertex, and the interface falls slowly from the vertex towards peripheral edge and forms a curved surface seeing from the side; According to the abovementioned structure, it not only would be handled easily, and the adjustment of fingering and the button's height would not be required, but also would be touched easily. And its extended area can increase the control speed and sensitivity.

A device for adjusting the length of a cord for carrying a wind instrument comprises two parts which can be pushed into one another, of which the first cup-shaped part has a recess and four openings and the second part has, as insert, a groove with a U-turn as well as a recess and two guide grooves. A cord piece is guided around the groove, out of the device and through an eyelet of a hook. A further cord piece is guided through the guide grooves and the four openings. The device allows the cord piece to be guided through the groove, which is completely separated from the guidance of cord pieces through the guide grooves. The guide grooves contain elements for deflecting and inhibiting the movement of the cord pieces. The device enables a stable and torsion-proof handling of the length adjustment of the cord. The device makes it possible that the cord length cannot adjust automatically, not even if the cord is not tensioned.

The invention provides a note simulation training device for a music teaching aid, and the device comprises a simulator main body, and the surface of the simulator main body is provided with a plurality of simulation regions which comprise a percussion music simulation region, a stringed instrument simulation region and a simulation region. An operation panel and a drumhead area are arranged on the percussion music simulation area; the stringed instrument simulation area comprises a stringed instrument body, a left hand action recognition device, a right hand action recognition device and a string tone recognition device arranged in the stringed instrument body, wherein the left hand action recognition device, the right hand action recognition device and the string tone recognition deviceare all connected with the controller; the wind instrument simulation area comprises a wind instrument body, and a wind instrument playing action acquisition device and a wind instrument playing simulation device which are arranged on the wind instrument body. The invention provides the note simulation training device for the music teaching aid, which is suitable for being used by a music beginnerduring learning and can simulate different note pronunciations of percussion music, stringed musical instruments and wind instruments.

The invention relates to the technical field of auxiliary teaching of wind instruments, and particularly relates to a finger normalizer for wind instruments. The finger normalizer for wind instrumentsis composed of a limiting frame I, a limiting frame II and fixing frames, wherein one end of the limiting frame I is connected with the limiting frame II, and the other end of the limiting frame I isfixed at one end of the wind instrument through the fixing frame; one end of the limiting frame II is connected with the limiting frame I, and the other end of the limiting frame II is fixed at the other end of the wind instrument through the fixing frame; the limiting frame I and the limiting frame II are used for limiting the lifting height of a finger of a wind instrument player. The lifting height of the finger of a beginner is limited through a limiting rod, thus the phenomenon that the finger is lifted to a too high position during the practice process of the beginner is avoided, the finger skills can be mastered conveniently, and the teaching for the wind instruments is facilitated; the length of the finger normalizer can be adjusted, and thus the finger normalizer is suitable forwind instruments with different lengths, such as a flute, a clarinet and an oboe; the height of the finger normalizer is adjustable, and thus the finger normalizer is suitable for wind instruments with different key shapes and key distribution forms, such as the flute, the clarinet and the oboe. The finger normalizer is suitable for the finger training mode from high lifting of the fingers to lowlifting of the fingers.

The present invention relates to a novel woodwind mouthpiece, which comprises: a main body having an elongated streamlined shape; a hollow chamber and a bore inside the main body; a reed table on one side of the main body and partially suspended from the main body; a beak on an opposite side to the reed table on the main body; a reed rail surrounding the beak and connecting to two lateral sides of the reed table to form an opening window between a reed and the hollow chamber inside the main body; and a tip opening disposed between the reed rail at a tip of the beak and an virtual surface extending from a surface of the reed table, wherein the woodwind mouthpiece is made of a plastic, a metal, an alloy, a composite, wood or a combination thereof.