Yamaha Corporation

Tatsuya Hiraku

Kazuki Soga

Hiroshi Nakaya

Kenichi Miyazawa

Toshiharu Fukushima

Toshihisa Yamazaki

Akio Yamamoto

Kazushi Nakai

Yukitoshi Suzuki

Hiroyasu Abe

Masuhiro Okada

Masao Imanishi

Eri Hirai

Tomoko Kirihara

Akira Kaneko

A modified wood includes: a wood material; and a sappanwood extract component impregnated in the wood material.

Modified wood, method of manufacturing same, and musical instrument

An object of the present invention is to provide a tone bar woody material and a xylophone that are superior in acoustic characteristics and stable in quality. In the tone bar woody material of the present invention, at least a partial region of a surface layer of a wood material was impregnated with a resin composition, and the wood material comprises in the partial region, a plurality of pores each having an average diameter less than 1.2 times an average diameter of vessels in the wood material.

Tone bar woody material, tone bar percussion instrument, and production method of tone bar woody material

An object of the present invention is to provide a woody material for a wind instrument superior in resistance to a moisture change. The woody material for a wind instrument comprises: a plurality of veneers being laminated; and at least one buffer layer comprising a fibrous sheet constituted from a nonwoven fabric or a woven fabric, and an adhesive with which the fibrous sheet is impregnated, the buffer layer being interposed between adjacent two of the plurality of veneers.

Woody material for wind instrument, wind instrument, and production method of woody material for wind instrument

A board for a stringed instrument which forms a front plate or a back plate of a stringed instrument, includes: a laminated plate that is obtained by laminating a plurality of veneers having a uniform thickness by an adhesive, at least one of the veneers having a different planar shape than the other veneers, in which the laminated plate is curved to be convex toward one surface side and has a thin portion and a thick portion.

Board for stringed instrument, method of manufacturing board for stringed instrument, and stringed instrument

A board for a stringed instrument which forms a front plate or a back plate of a stringed instrument, includes: a veneer that includes a concave portion for partially reducing the thickness of the veneer, in which the veneer is curved to be convex toward one surface side. In this board for a stringed instrument, fiber of the veneer may extend along the curved shape of the veneer.

A method of fabricating a bow stick includes winding a prepreg, in which a fiber is impregnated with a resin, on a mandrel with a diameter gradually decreasing toward a distal end, setting a semi-fabricated product, in which the prepreg is wound on the mandrel, into a mold and molding the semi-fabricated product in a shape corresponding to a cavity formed between the mold and the mandrel by heating and pressurizing the semi-fabricated product in the mold, and taking out the mandrel from a molded product molded in the shape corresponding to the cavity to acquire a long and hollow stick body. When adjusting at least one of a weight distribution, a center of gravity, and a weight of the stick body, the volume of the cavity is changed using the mandrel of which the diameter or the diameter variation is gradually changed in an axis direction.

Method of fabricating bow stick of stringed instrument and bow stick of stringed instrument

A stick of a string instrument bow includes a base material having an arched-rod shaped carbon fiber resin layer made of carbon fiber resin and a glass fiber resin layer which covers the outer surface of the carbon fiber resin layer and is made of glass fiber resin, and the glass fiber resin layer has a non-adhesion portion formed of an air layer present within the glass fiber resin layer and an adhesion portion which does not include the air layer.

Stick of string instrument bow, string instrument bow and methods of manufacturing stick of string instrument bow

An acoustic timber for use in an acoustic musical instrument is constituted of a plurality of woody members, such as woody fibers, woody veneers, blasted bamboo fibers, and defibrated bamboo fibers, whose fiber length is 50 mm or more. An epoxy resin is impregnated into the woody members with an impregnation factor of 5 weight-percent through 50 weight-percent. The woody members impregnated with the epoxy resin are joined together by way of heating and compressive molding so that the fibers thereof are uniformly aligned in the desired fiber-aligning direction.

Acoustic timber for musical instrument

An electronic drum comprises a pad comprising a body portion made of a polymeric elastic material such as a rubber or a thermoplastic elastomer, and a surface layer portion which is bonded with the body portion so as to cover the body portion, the surface layer portion being made of a polymeric material having an elastic modulus of 0.5 to 20 GPa.

Pad for electronic drum and electronic drum

A surface acoustic wave device (e.g., filter or convolver) is designed to increase an electromechanical coupling factor K and is basically configured by a substrate, a buffer layer, a piezoelectric layer and an electrode layer. Herein, the substrate is made of a bulk material (e.g., SrTiO ), which allows growth of a perovskite compound crystal being expressed by a general chemical formula of SrZO (where Z denotes an element such as Zr and Sn whose valence is 4). The buffer layer is formed on the substrate and is made of the perovskite compound crystal (e.g., SrZrO , SrSnO ), which has good lattice matching with KNbO . The piezoelectric layer is made of a KNbO single crystal and is formed on the buffer layer with a thickness of 500 nm or so. The electrode layer is formed on or below the piezoelectric layer. An interdigital transducer consisting of input and output electrodes is formed by patterning using photolithography technique being effected on the electrode layer, which is made of a metal material (e.g., Al). In addition, it is possible to form a temperature stabilization layer between the piezoelectric layer and electrode layer. The temperature stabilization layer is made of a material (SiO ) having a temperature coefficient reverse to a temperature coefficient of the piezoelectric layer so as to ease distortion being caused to occur due to differences in thermal expansion between the piezoelectric layer and electrode layer. Incidentally, the temperature stabilization layer has a prescribed thickness, which is approximately 1000 nm.

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