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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anton J Braun, 6073 Egelsbach, DE;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84384 ;
Abstract
A piccolo flute, in particular a piccolo transverse flute of the family of the 'orchestra Boehm flutes', having a head part with a mouth hole, also called an embouchure hole, a closure cap with an adjustable seal on its free frontal end and a body part with finger holes and a key mechanism. The terminal finger hole is located on the free frontal end. The body part has only one C hole. The invention provides a novel hole setting scheme for a concert pitch tuning of a'=440 Hz. The axis of the C hole encloses with the longitudinal center plane of the body part containing the majority of the finger holes an angle of 120.degree. to 130.degree..