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Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001

Filed:

Sep. 07, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:

Satoshi Inoue, Shizuoka-ken, JP;

Assignee:

Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10C 3/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10C 3/12 ;
Abstract

A keyboard musical instrument is a combination of an acoustic upright piano without strings and an electronic tone generating system, and a hammer receiver is beaten with hammers respectively linked with key action mechanisms, wherein the each of the hammers has a hammer shank fixed to a butt of the key action mechanism and a weight member attached to the hammer shank, and the weight member has a center of gravity in the vicinity of the center of gravity in a hammer head of a regular hammer usually incorporated in the standard upright piano so that the key touch is identical with or similar to that of the piano key touch.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Inoue, Satoshi. (2001). Keyboard musical instrument having dummy hammer with well-regulated center of gravity for producing piano-like key touch without acoustic sound (U.S. Patent No. 6248943). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6248943

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