Weight-relieving device for a woodwind instrument

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2009-01-30

2010-02-02

Lockett, Kimberly R (Department: 2832)

Music

Instruments

Wind

Reexamination Certificate

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07655853

ABSTRACT:
A device relieves the weight on the thumbrest of a woodwind instrument that does not have a curved neck near the mouthpiece, thereby avoiding muscular strain and soreness in the right hand and thumb of the instrument player without altering negatively the instrument playing in the conventional ways. This device includes a strap20that suspends on the player's chest an enclosure30housing a constant-force spring34coupled with a coil of cord40which terminates outside of this enclosure in a snap-hook60that is secured onto the thumbrest ring70of the instrument. In usual playing positions that point the instrument to the ground, the device creates a physical force component on the thumbrest in line with but opposite to the weight of the instrument on the thumbrest and thus diminishes in a perceivable manner the stress of the instrument weight on the right-hand of the player.

REFERENCES:
patent: 6384307 (2002-05-01), Sueta et al.
patent: 7282631 (2007-10-01), Chou

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