Musical Instrument Mounting System for Marching Music Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Marching band members face challenges in maintaining synchronization due to the active nature of performances, making it difficult to keep music sheets in sight while playing instruments.
Innovation Solution
A musical instrument mounting system that secures electronic devices to various instruments, providing a stable platform for displaying music sheets within the musician's line of sight, using clamps, buckles, and coupling mechanisms to attach to brass and woodwind instruments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If musicians carry physical music sheets during marching performances, then they can read music instructions, but they cannot maintain proper视线 (line of sight) and synchronization due to active movement and hand usage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces physical music sheets with electronic devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops) that display music instructions digitally. This copying of the music information onto an electronic medium allows the music to be viewed without the physical constraints of paper sheets, enabling musicians to maintain proper line of sight while performing active movements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent substitutes the mechanical system of carrying and manually adjusting physical music sheets with an electronic display system mounted on the instrument. The electronic device replaces the need for continuous manual sheet handling and adjustment, allowing musicians to access music information without physical obstruction or frequent manual intervention.
2Loss of information
If electronic devices are mounted on musical instruments, then music sheets become visible within line of sight, but the mounting system must be versatile enough to accommodate different instrument types
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs a universal mounting system that can be adapted to various musical instrument types (brass, woodwind, percussion) through different attachment mechanisms. The same basic mounting concept can be applied across instrument families, allowing a single electronic device to serve multiple musicians with different instruments while maintaining music visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting system is divided into separate modular components that can be independently configured for different instrument types. This segmentation allows the system to be customized for specific instrument requirements while maintaining overall versatility, enabling the same electronic device mount to accommodate diverse instrument geometries and playing positions.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a secure mounting system is used to hold electronic devices, then stability is improved, but the system becomes more complex with multiple attachment mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple attachment functions into an integrated mounting system that secures the electronic device to the instrument while providing adjustment capabilities. By merging the mounting, securing, and positioning functions into a single unified system, the design achieves stability without requiring multiple separate complex mechanisms, reducing overall system complexity.
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AI summary
A musical instrument mounting system includes a musical instrument mounting device having an attachment portion affixed to a mounting body, where the attachment portion configured to attach to one or more separate musical instruments. A first receiver section is affixed to the mounting body and is positioned adjacent the attachment portion, where the first receiver section includes a first portion of a first coupling mechanism and is removably affixable to a second portion of the first coupling mechanism affixed to a retainer device. One or more electronic devices are removably affixable to the retainer device, where each of the one or more electronic devices comprise at least one of: data collection means, communication means, or presentation means.