Percussion instrument using touch switch

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2005-02-24

2008-11-04

Donovan, Lincoln (Department: 2837)

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

C084S600000, C084S41100A, C084S422100

Reexamination Certificate

active

07446254

ABSTRACT:
Percussion instrument using touch switch. Electric current flows by touching conducting pad with conducting stick. The microcontroller in main portion detects the said electronic current and recognizes which pad is hit by which stick to generate the sound of drum of hit pad. The stick portion may further contain vibration sensor and in this case the microcontroller recognizes the hit impact strength of stick on pad by analyzing the output of vibration sensor to control the volume of sound of drum. The information about playing drum recognized by microcontroller can be transmitted to outer system like PC by communication portion in main portion or used to generate the sound of drum by sound generation portion in main portion and if the communication portion is contained in main portion then the sound generation portion may be omitted.

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