122results about "Saxophones" patented technology

A mouthpiece for a woodwind instrument, such as a saxophone has a tubular body, with a front and a rear portion, each having a respective passage. The front portion has an opening that is at least partially covered by a reed. The front passage is wider then the opening. The front passage also has a bottom wall that descends toward the rear portion. The bottom wall has three zones, including a first zone disposed at a shallow angle with respect to the reed, a second zone with sharper angle then the first, and an end zone. The resulting mouthpiece generates smoother and fuller sounds then the prior art mouthpieces while at the same time projecting sounds more effective.

A conically shaped, keyless plastic wind instrument with eight holes, consisting of a single body and a detachable a mouthpiece. The instrument is fully chromatic and capable of playing in any of the traditional twelve keys of Western music-producing notes through a player's vibration of a single reed affixed to a soprano saxophone type mouthpiece, and through the opening or closing of a plurality of tone holes along its length by use of the fingers. The instrument is one of a family of keyless saxophones which can be pitched in the alto, soprano, and soprano range by the lengthening or shortening of the body and by changing the location of the eight finger holes. By opening or closing the finger holes, the standing sound wave-created inside the instrument by the player's vibration of the reed affixed to the mouthpiece-is intersected at locations along the length of the body producing a vibration at a determined musical pitch, the scale of which is tuned to A=440, standard concert tuning. All members of this instrument family have the same fingering patterns, which are based on recorder (or vertical flute) fingerings.

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.

A saxophone equipped with an assisting system (3), the assisting system (3) assisting a player to perform the performance of the saxophone; the assisting system (3) comprises A pressure sensor (102) connected to the key (22, 23, 24) is provided in association with a torque motor (103A) that applies an auxiliary force to the key (22, 23, 24) and is used to adjust the driving signal to the controller (101) corresponding to a certain amount of pressure; since the conversion table (TB1) is stored in the controller (101), the controller (101) looks up the drive voltage to be adjusted in the conversion table (TB1). flow, and provide a drive signal to the torque motor (103), whereby the key is pressed by the sum of finger force and auxiliary force.

A saxophone has a complicated key mechanism for selectively closing and opening tone holes, and fingering on touch buttons and keys is not easy for children, handicapped persons and old players; a supporting system is combined with the saxophone so as to assist a human player in fingering, and includes sensors, actuators and a controlling unit; while the human player is fingering on the touch buttons and keys, the sensors inform the controlling unit of changes of the depressed touch buttons and depressed keys, and the controlling unit supplies driving signals to the actuators associated with the tone holes to be closed so as to permit the human player easily and quickly to play music tunes.

The invention relates to a device for carrying a wind instrument. The device comprises a Y-shaped frame having two arms (2, 2') extending upward, which are arcuate at the free ends (9) of the arms, and a third arm extending downward, which forms a support (4). The two arms (2, 2') and the support (4) converge in a connecting element (3) and are connected to each other there. The arms (2, 2') can be designed as one piece together with the support (4) and the connecting element (3) in order to form a unit, or the arms (2, 2') can be connected to the connecting element (3) in an insertable or pivotable manner. A retaining element (5) for hanging the wind instrument (17) is provided on the connecting element (3).