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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
May. 03, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael R Meadows, West Peoria, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
446213 ; 446215 ; 446397 ; 84330 ;
Abstract
A motion-activated musical device is disclosed which sounds harmonic overtones of a longitudinal resonator. Swinging the device causes the formation of a pressure differential across the device. This pressure differential causes air to flow through the longitudinal resonator, initiating an oscillation in the hole tone resonator. A standing wave is then established in the longitudinal resonator in response to this oscillation and a musical tone results. Variations in motion cause the device to sound a sequence of harmonically related musical tones.