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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7335831 | Brass instrument A brass instrument with improved tonal characteristics that includes a tonal material attached to the brass instrument. The instrument may be a trumpet. The tonal material may have a Mohs hardness of greater than about 6, such as a semi-precious stone. Also disclose... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7148411 | Adjustable tuning tube for a clarinet An adjustable tuning tube for a clarinet is composed of an outer tube and an inner tube. The outer tube has a first upper chamber, a lower chamber, and a middle portion between the first upper chamber and the lower chamber. A button is pivotally mounted in an arcuat... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6717041 | Tuning adjustment retaining mechanism Disclosed is a mechanism for attaching a tuning bell of a musical instrument to the musical instrument. The mechanism includes a rail attached to the tuning bell and a hollow channel attached to a part of the musical instrument such as, for example, to a valve clust... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6054644 | Interchangeable bore clarinet barrel system A interchangeable bore clarinet barrel system is provided which eliminates the need for substituting one clarinet barrel for another in order to change tone color, intonation, and response characteristics. The barrel system is attachable to adjacent porti... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6008443 | Enhancements introduced into brass instruments and method for the manufacturing of parts for such instruments A brass instrument having a mouthpiece connected by a pipe to a valved body which is in turn connected to an output bending and a bell thereby defining an air duct. The bell and the output bending are formed of separate and detachable parts. The brass ins... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5365823 | In-line double attachment slide trombone A slide trombone is provided having a complete chromatic range extending from the tenor range to the pedal notes of the basic B.music-flat. windpath. The trombone of the present invention includes two trigger activated attachments which are "in... | 11/22/1994 |
| 4993303 | Hornette A brass wind instrument is disclosed which has substantially the same range as a French Horn but has a forward facing bell for greater projection. Further, the bell is substantially that of a tenor trombone. The instrument includes a rotary valve for changing ... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4757738 | Water key for brass musical instruments A mechanism comprising a torsionally biased control rod having a valve cap which presses tightly against the valve opening found in the tubing of brass musical instruments. The control rod runs adjacent and parallel to the tubing of the instrument and may... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4714001 | Device for obtaining quarter-tones and other micro-intervals on musical wind instruments with lateral holes For each register of the instrument, the device comprises at least one auiary tube branched in the vicinity of the head of the instrument and a manual control mechanism making it possible to open or close the auxiliary tube at its first end in contact wi... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4559859 | Musical instrument A musical wind instrument of the type in which the pitch of the note to be produced is initially created by a person blowing the instrument, the instrument being provided with at least one elongated tubular section forming a sound path with two ends. This... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4515061 | Trumpet with improved tone Trumpet with linear or rotary pistons, such as B-flat, C, D or E-flat trumpets, wherein the bottom of the tuning bow comprises a conical widening and the lower tube of the tuning slide assembly slides outside the tube integral with the set of pistons, whi... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4512233 | Pitch adjuster A pitch adjuster for a valved brass instrument having a tuning slide crook for selectively operating the tuning slide crook between a normal position, a preselected inward position, and a preselected outward position, to raise or lower the note played. Th... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4276804 | Pitch adjuster for valved brass instruments A pitch adjuster for a valved brass instrument having a tuning slide crook and a third valve slide crook enables play in the just intonation scale and includes a main push rod attached to the tuning slide crook, a finger operator attached to the third val... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4273020 | Method of constructing trumpet or other brass instrument A method of constructing a trumpet or other brass instrument is disclosed wherein a zone of increased taper is formed on the cylindrical inner surface of the mouthpipe to provide an improved air column between the mouthpiece and valve sections of the inst... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4245544 | Mouthpiece practice holder and tuning adjuster A mouthpiece practice holder has a base which approximates the envelope of that portion of a brass instrument normally held by the left hand and supports a mouthpiece from a brass instrument for practice playing or buzzing. A mouthpiece rod is adjustably ... | 01/20/1981 |
