Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hand pan tongue drum
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Application No.: US14120628Application Date: 2014-06-11
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Publication No.: US10373594B1Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Grahm Doe , David S. Beery
- Applicant: Grahm Doe , David S. Beery
- Agent Richard A. Ryan
- Main IPC: G10D13/02
- IPC: G10D13/02

Abstract:
Disclosed is a tuned steel hand pan tongue drum musical instrument. It is formed from joining together two thin walled steel contiguous arcuate domes. The top dome has a plurality of tuned steel drum tone fields located at various places around the periphery thereof, and a plurality of tongues cut into the steel in the upper portion of the dome. The tongues are tuned to match the fundamental frequency and/or harmonic of the different steel drum tone fields (SDTF). When struck with fingers, mallets, or other devices, the tongues emit a tuned tone and the vibration travels through the steel exciting the matched tone SDTF. The SDTF then begins resonating and produces a musical tone even though it was not touched. The reverse is also the case. When an SDTF is played, its vibration excites a similarly tuned tongue and causes it to resonate. The SDTR and the tuned tongue share the vibration and mutually benefit sonically from the effect created.
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