Adjustable Percussion Frame with Telescoping Tuning Rod

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Solution Overview

Problem

Percussionists face challenges when transporting heavy and cumbersome musical equipment, which is delicate and requires time and tools to adjust for various sounds and tones, making it difficult to travel with versatile and easily adjustable gear.

Innovation Solution

A musical system featuring a frame with adjustable legs, a tuning system with a telescoping tuning rod, and additional components like a pedal bracket and slap panel, allowing for easy adjustment and playability, including a method to straddle the system for comfort and access to tuning mechanisms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional percussion equipment is used, then a variety of sounds and tones can be produced, but the equipment becomes heavy and cumbersome to transport

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevariety of sounds and tonesVSAvoidweight of equipment

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSWeight of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple percussion instruments (drums, cymbals, gongs) into a single integrated frame structure, allowing diverse sounds to be produced from one unified device rather than transporting multiple separate instruments

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The frame structure serves multiple functions: it supports various percussion instruments, provides adjustable legs for stability on different surfaces, includes tuning mechanisms for sound adjustment, and offers a straddling design for player comfort - replacing multiple separate equipment items

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If traditional percussion equipment is used, then various sounds and tones can be achieved, but the equipment requires time and tools to adjust

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevariety of sounds and tonesVSAvoidtime to adjust equipment

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The tuning rod incorporates an integrated tuning mechanism that allows the performer to adjust drum tension and sound directly during performance without requiring external tools or assistance - the instrument serves its own tuning needs

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The adjustable legs can be modified on-the-fly to adapt to different performance surfaces, and the tuning rod enables real-time sound adjustments, making the equipment dynamically adaptable rather than static

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Adaptability or versatility

If traditional percussion equipment is used, then delicate instruments can provide variety of sounds, but the equipment requires both time and tools to adjust

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevariety of sounds and tonesVSAvoidcomplexity of adjustment requirements

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple adjustment functions (tuning, positioning, stabilization) are merged into the frame structure itself - the legs provide stability, the tuning rod handles sound adjustment, and the straddling design facilitates access - reducing the need for separate adjustment devices and tools

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS8008560B2Musical system

Publication Date: 2011.08.30 SWAN PERCUSSION

AI summary

A musical system. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems including: a frame with an interior cavity, a tuning system coupled within the interior cavity of the frame, the tuning system configured to be accessed by way of an aperture through of the frame, and a drum head retained at a first end of the frame, wherein the tuning system configured to apply uniform pressure that circumscribes an axis of interior surface of the drum head.