Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Musical wind instrument with inner waveguide reflector assembly
- Patent Title (中): 具有内部波导反射器组件的乐器
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Application No.: US13786399Application Date: 2013-03-05
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Publication No.: US08642865B2Publication Date: 2014-02-04
- Inventor: Philip Joseph Ostendorf
- Applicant: Philip Joseph Ostendorf
- Agent Thomas E. Lees, LLC
- Main IPC: G10D9/00
- IPC: G10D9/00

Abstract:
An attachment is provided, which is to be clipped to the bell of a contemporary wind instrument, hereinafter called a horn, such as a trumpet, trombone, euphonium, etc., permitting musical playing by lip control alone, eliminating the need for valves, or scale slides. An attachment bracket is designed to support one, or more, tubular waveguide reflectors. The waveguide reflectors each have a proximal end near the bell end of the horn and extend relative to the horn's mouthpiece, toward a distal end, at a calculated position, producing a fundamental pitch of one scale tone lower or higher, as may be required, from the fundamental pitch of the horn. A single port may be added to the horn calculated to produce a fundamental pitch, one tone higher than the fundamental pitch of the horn, providing the sharps and flats for a full chromatic scale.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130233147A1 MUSICAL WIND INSTRUMENT WITH INNER WAVEGUIDE REFLECTOR ASSEMBLY Public/Granted day:2013-09-12
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