Drum rhythms trigger pads mounted on body and neck of guitar-sha

Details Drum rhythms trigger pads mounted on body and neck of guitar-sha Drum rhythms trigger pads mounted on body and neck of guitar-sha

1993-12-07

1995-04-04

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84743, G01H 314

Patent

active

054039720

ABSTRACT:
A musical instrument includes a guitar-shaped housing and a drum rhythms triggering assembly mounted thereon. The guitar-shaped housing has a body and an elongated neck attached at one end of the body and extending outwardly therefrom. The drum rhythms triggering assembly includes a first plurality of trigger pads mounted at selected locations on an exterior surface of the housing body and a second plurality of trigger pads mounted at selected locations on an exterior surface of the housing neck. Also, the drum rhythms triggering assembly includes a plurality of electrical conductors and a connector mounted on the housing body and neck in an arrangement for electrically connecting electro-mechanical transducers of the first and second pluralities of trigger pads with an external electrical signal processing system capable of generating different drum rhythms in response to contact with different selected ones of the trigger pads by a player's fingers.

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