Musical wind instrument with inner horn assembly

Details Musical wind instrument with inner horn assembly Musical wind instrument with inner horn assembly

1992-07-27

1994-10-04

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Music

Instruments

Wind

G10D 710

Patent

active

053515935

ABSTRACT:
A musical instrument which may be used to play a complete major scale without coordinated mouth and finger operations has a single mouthpiece, an outer tubing assembly or horn connected to the mouthpiece and terminating in a bell, and an inner horn assembly mounted within the outer horn. The inner horn assembly includes at least one inner horn having an open, upstream end located inside the outer horn and either an open or a closed downstream end adjacent the belled end of the outer horn. If open, the downstream end of the inner horn is either belled or tubular. The inner horn assembly preferably has four straight inner horns, each of which is closed at its distal end by an end cap, each inner horn being tuned to a pitch which is required to produce a required scale frequency of the outer horn and having a length substantially equal to one-fourth the wave length of the pitch to which it is tuned. A method of determining the resonant pitch of each inner horn is also included.

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Montague, "The World of Romantic Modern & Musical Instruments", The Overlook Press, Woodstock, N.Y., 1981, pp. 76-81 and 92-94, Title and Copyright Page.

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