Wind instrument

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10354624-B2
Application number	US-201615753641-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2016
Priority date	Sep 30, 2015
Publication date	Jul 16, 2019
Grant date	Jul 16, 2019

Abstract

A wind instrument includes a tube body; a tone hole tube that has an inner open end formed extending from the outer periphery of the tube body and opening to the inside of the tube body, and an outer open end opening to the outside of the tube body; and a finger pressing plate that, in the radial direction of the tone hole tube, extends from the outer open end of the tone hole tube to the outside of the tone hole tube.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wind instrument comprising:
a tube body having at least a first opening;
a tone hole tube having:
a region extending in a height direction of the tube body from an outer periphery of the tube body;
an inner open end surrounding the first opening; and
an outer open end spaced from the outer periphery of the tube body and opening to the outside of the tube body; and

a finger pressing plate disposed spaced apart from the outer periphery of the tube body and extending from the outer open end of the tone hole tube in a radial direction of the tone hole tube.

2. The wind instrument according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a plurality of ones of the tone hole tube,
wherein the finger pressing plate is provided common to the plurality of tone hole tubes.

3. The wind instrument according to claim 2 , wherein the finger pressing plate has a surface, on the side to which the outer open end opens, that is curved.

4. The wind instrument according to claim 2 , wherein:
the tube body has at least two tube body portions that are connected in a mutually rotatable manner, and
the tone hole tube and the finger pressing plate are disposed in each tube body portion.

5. The wind instrument according to claim 1 , wherein the finger pressing plate has a surface, on the side to which the outer open end opens, that is curved.

6. The wind instrument according to claim 5 , wherein:
the tube body has at least two tube body portions that are connected in a mutually rotatable manner, and
the tone hole tube and the finger pressing plate are disposed in each tube body portion.

7. The wind instrument according to claim 1 , wherein:
the tube body has at least two tube body portions that are connected in a mutually rotatable manner, and
the tone hole tube and the finger pressing plate are disposed in each tube body portion.

8. A wind instrument comprising:
a tube body;
a tone hole tube having:
a first through hole; and
a region extending in a height direction of the tube body; and

a finger pressing plate disposed spaced apart from an outer periphery of the tube body and having a second through hole that constitutes, together with the first through hole, a tone hole,
wherein the tube body and the tone hole tube comprise a joined pair of separate structures that divide the tone hole, and
wherein the finger pressing plate is disposed over and covers the boundary of the pair of separate structures.

Assignees

• Yamaha Corp

Inventors

• Suenaga Yuichiro
• Ohno Toru

Classifications

• G10D7/10

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