Keyboard for free bass accordian

• US 3,311,011 A
• Filed: 05/05/1965
• Issued: 03/28/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William F. Kuehl
• Original Assignee: William F. Kuehl
• Inventors: Kuehl, William F.
• Application Number:
  US04/453,901
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• US Class Current: 84/376.00K
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 11/02 Actions

Claims

1. THE BASS KEYBOARD FOR AN ACCORDIAN COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF BUTTONS EACH ADAPTED TO CONTROL AT LEAST ONE SINGLE TONE PRODUCING REED, EACH OF SAID BUTTONS BEING OPERATIVE TO ALLOW AIR TO VIBRATE ITS ASSOCIATED REED BY REASON OF DEPRESSION OF SAID BUTTON, SAID BUTTONS BEING ARRANGED IN TRANSVERSE ROWS EXTENDING FROM AN EDGE OF THE ACCORDIAN ADAPTED TO BE HELD BY THE LEFTHAND OF THE PLAYER TOWARD THE BELLOWS OF THE ACCORDIAN, SAID ROWS BEING ARRANGED TO FORM KEYBOARD HALVES, A FIRST HALF OF THE KEYBOARD HAVING AT LEAST TWO ROWS OF SIX BUTTONS, SAID BUTTONS IN A FIRST ROW OF SAID FIST HALF BEING ARRANGED WITH THE INTERVAL BETWEEN TONES PRODUCED BY THE REEDS CONTROLLED BY THE BUTTONS BEING IN MINOR SECONDS, THE TWO ROWS OF BUTTONS BEING OPERATIVE TO CONTROL THEIR ASSOCIATED REEDS TO PRODUCE A FULL OCTAVE, SAID SECOND HALF OF THE KEYBOARD HAVING AT LEAST TWO ROWS OF SIX BUTTONS, SAID BUTTONS IN THE FIRST ROW OF SAID SECOND HALF BEING ALIGNED WITH THE BUTTONS IN THE SECOND ROW OF SAID FIRST HALF AND BEING ARRANGED WITH MINOR SECONDS INTERVALS BETWEEN TONES PRODUCED BY THE REEDS CONTROLLED BY THE BUTTONS IN SAID FIRST ROW OF SAID SECOND HALF, THE TWO ROWS OF BUTTONS IN SAID SECOND HALF OPERATIVELY CONTROLLING REEDS WITHIN THE SAME FULL OCTAVE AS ARE CONTROLLED BY THE BUTTONS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND ROWS OF SAID FIRST HALF, THE ROWS OF BUTTONS EXTENDING, IN NUMERICAL ORDER, FROM SAID FREE EDGE OF SAID ACCORDIAN.