Music – Instruments – Stringed
Patent
1990-06-15
1992-12-08
Gellner, Michael L.
Music
Instruments
Stringed
84291, 84402, G10C 306
Patent
active
051700000
ABSTRACT:
In a sound board assembly for a musical instrument, a plurality of straight-grain wood veneers are joined together in a plane to form a plate unit having front and rear surfaces. Each of the wood veneers has two lateral sides which extend in a direction along the grain of the wood veneer. The lateral sides of the wood veneer serve respectively as a pair of abutments. One of the pair of abutments of one of each pair of adjacent wood veneers is abutted against and joined to one of the pair of abutments of the other wood veneer. A plurality of voids are formed inside of the plate unit. Substantially, the voids are formed along a neutral plane of the plate unit which is in the middle of the two surfaces. Thanks to the voids in the plate unit, the above sound board assembly is capable of sufficiently exhibiting the merit of a woody sound, capable of setting the sound quality artificially and freely, and capable of realizing the woody sound that has more warmth than in the case where high-quality natural woods are used.
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Hayashida Hajime
Nozaki Kinya
Takemura Akira
Yamada Toshiya
Gellner Michael L.
Lee Eddie C.
Yamaha Corporation
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