Sound bar type percussive musical instrument

• US 4,646,614 A
• Filed: 10/28/1985
• Issued: 03/03/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha 10-1 Nakazawa-Cho Hamamatsu-Shi Shizuoka-Ken Japan
• Original Assignee: Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Suzuki, Shigeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Franklin, Lawrence R.
• Application Number:
  US06/791,777
• Time in Patent Office: 491 Days
• Field of Search: 84/402-405, 84/410
• US Class Current: 84/403
• CPC Class Codes: G10D 13/08 Multi-toned musical instruments with sonorous bars, blocks, forks, gongs, plates, rods or teeth

Abstract

In construction of a sound bar type percussive musical instrument, the center sections of tube holders are firmly coupled to the center sections of the front and rear walls of the base frame in order to block the tube holders against undesirable center flexion due to weight of resonator tubes, thereby assuring uniform gaps for all sound bars and resonator tubes.

Claims

1. An improved sound bar type percussive musical instrument comprising

a horizontal, substantial rectangular base frame having four walls,

a plurality of sound bars mounted side by side to said base frame,

tube holders each coupled at both ends to side walls of said base frame,

a plurality of resonator tubes held by said tube holders, each being arranged below associated one of said resonator tubes, and

means for firmly coupling the center sections of said tube holders to the center sections of front and rear walls of said base frame, said means including a pair of connecting members coupled at both ends to said front and rear walls of said base frame for supporting said tube holders and being arranged so that said tube holders have a center rise.

2. An improved sound bar type percussive musical instrument comprising

a horizontal, substantially rectangular base frame having four walls,

a plurality of sound bars mounted side by side to said base frame,

tube holders each coupled at both ends to side walls of said base frame,

a plurality of resonator tubes held by said tube holders, each being arranged below associated one of said resonator tubes, and

means for firmly coupling the center sections of said tube holders to the center sections of front and rear walls of said base frame, said means including connecting members coupled at both ends to said front and rear walls of said base frame and a connector coupling each of said connecting members to said tube holders.

3. An improved sound bar type percussive musical instrument as claimed in claim 2 in which

the level of each said connecting member is arranged so that the tube holders have a center rise.

4. An improved sound bar type percussive musical instrument as claimed in claim 2 in which

said connector comprises a hook in hooking engagement at its top end with a corresponding one of said connecting members and at its bottom end with a pin fixed to the side face of said tube holder.