Abstract: The musical instrument shield invention is a clear or translucent enclosure made of flexible plastic material that aids to contain droplets from spreading while still providing full view of the instrument. Access ports for the musicians' hands, fingers, clip rings, and thumb rests are cut in the plastic and reinforced as needed to prevent tearing. The musical instrument shield is attached to the neck of the instrument with ties, string, elastic, laces, Velcro or other suitable material to hold the proximal end of the shield around the instrument. The woodwind shield can incorporate one or more filtered vents that prevent pressure from building up during playing yet still resist any infectious droplets from passing out of the shield. The access ports are closed when not in use and direct any aerosols that may escape through the ports while in use down toward the ground.

Abstract: Elliptical silicone knuckle or roller for grand piano action with customized durometer reading is an elliptical cylinder shaped knuckle or roller for a grand piano hammer assembly with an elliptical cylinder shaped core that is made of silicone thermoset resin material, which can be molded or manufactured at any desired durometer reading of 10-100 units to yield a piano action and hammer assembly for a grand piano with the exact feel of escapement that is desired by any particular pianist. Escapement is the process whereby the jack stops driving the knuckle just before the hammer hits the strings where the hammer travels the last 1 to 2 mm to the strings on its own inertia and without any contact with the jack. Two embodiments of elliptical silicone knuckle or roller are presented: a wide embodiment and a narrow embodiment.

Abstract: A bonded bow device for providing injured-hand support to a musician in playing a stringed instrument with an injured, disabled or otherwise impaired wrist, finger(s) and/or hand, and to play with a more relaxed wrist. The bonded bow device generally comprises a base formed as an elongate resilient partial-tubular member interrupted by a lengthwise notch configured for clamping a frog of a bow. A double-finger collar is fixedly attached to the base. In use a musician inserts any two adjacent good fingers of either hand through the double-finger collar and furls all remaining healthy fingers around the base and bow. No matter the remaining grip strength, the support given by double-finger collar adds enough control to enable the musician to play.

Abstract: The invention is generally directed to a tool formed from a single material including an engagement portion to contact or engage a target material or item; a handle portion; and one or more openings such that a user may maintain skin-to-skin contact between the user's fingers, thumb, and/or hand. In accordance with some embodiments, the invention is directed to a tool that may also include: a pinch portion between the handle portion and the engagement portion, to be gripped or pinched by a user, the pinch portion comprising one or more openings or orifices such that skin-to-skin contact is maintained during use; and one or more protrusions, indents, textures, ridges, or other surface features on the pinch portion or handle portion to assist with a user's grip of the tool.

Abstract: An instrument mouthpiece having an interior wall that includes a plurality of curvilinear modifications that disrupts airflow through the mouthpiece in order to produce a pleasing sound when a player is playing an instrument. The modifications may comprise raised curvilinear ridges disposed on the baffle of the or curvilinear valleys carved into the baffle. Additionally, the modifications may include specific patterns designed to elicit different, yet still pleasing sounds from the instrument. These patterns may include a first pattern having a first central linear modification flanked by a set of modifications having parabolic elongated modifications wherein each modification has a parabolic focus increasingly more distant from each respective modification in a direction away from the central modification and also flanked by a set of modifications having parabolic elongated modifications fashioned in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A musical instrument clamp system which includes a bracket assembly having a first end and a second end, a cradle assembly, a clamp assembly operatively connected to the first end of the bracket assembly, wherein the clamp assembly is also removably attached to the cradle assembly, an extension assembly having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the extension assembly is operatively connected to the second end of the bracket assembly, a hook assembly, wherein the hook assembly is operatively connected to the second end of the extension assembly, and a musical instrument removably retained on the hook assembly.

Abstract: A handpan comprises a hollow base body, composed of a lower shell and an upper shell, each in the form of a spherical segment, which are connected to one another, preferably glued, at their mutually facing outer edges, a basic tone field preferably arranged centrally on the upper shell, further tone fields arranged annularly on the upper shell, preferably around the basic tone field, a resonance opening in the lower shell, and at least one further resonance opening in the lower shell, wherein the at least two resonance openings are arranged decentrally in the lateral rising zone of the lower shell.

Abstract: A chin rest includes a top panel, side panel, and tailpiece strap with snap components, and together provide a surface on which a musician may place their chin while playing an instrument. The side panel includes an endpin hole designed to fit snugly over and around the endpin of an instrument to hold the chin rest to the surface of the instrument. A tailpiece strap extends from the top panel to form a loop around the tailpiece of an instrument, securing the chin rest to the instrument. A male snap connector is embedded in the end of the tailpiece strap and a female snap connector is embedded in the top panel, adjacent to the tailpiece strap. A raised, exterior border surrounds the exterior edge of the top and/or side panels, creating a negative space to provide a cradle for a musician's chin.

Abstract: A self-locking tuner is used to tune the strings of a musical instrument. The self-locking tuner is disposed in a headstock of the stringed musical instrument. The self-locking tuner has an inner string post, outer string post disposed over the inner string post, locking pin extending above the inner string post and through the outer string post to the opening, and insert disposed around the outer string post. Alternatively, a cast housing is disposed around the outer string post with a stop to unlock a string. The string extends through an opening in the outer string post. The insert or cast housing has a stop to unlock the string. The outer string post has a rotational stop which contacts the stop to unlock the string. The insert is disposed in a headstock with the tab disposed in a slot formed in a surface of the headstock.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a hand-held musical instrument comprising a first metal plate or portion of a metal plate configured to emit a sound having a first note when struck with a mallet, and a second metal plate or portion of a metal plate configured to emit a sound having a second note when struck with a mallet, with the first and second plates/portions being connected by a handle that is sized and configured to be held by a human hand. The instrument may be held in one hand and the plates/portions struck with a mallet using the other hand. Embodiments of the musical instrument produce complementary notes that are free of interference from one another and that each have a gradual decay rate, leading to a relatively long sustain time.

Abstract: A flip tuning levers device that does not put added stress on a plurality of guitar strings to get them out of tune. The flip tuning levers device includes a plurality of levers, a plurality of vertical shafts, a plurality of shims, a horizontal shaft, and a base plate. The levers each include a handle, a rotating pin joint, and an upside-down cylindrical-shaped indentation. The base plate includes a plurality of apertures that include a first set of apertures that accommodate receiving a plurality of fasteners and a second set of apertures that accommodate receiving the distal ends of each of the vertical shafts, the first set of apertures correspond with a plurality of preexisting holes disposed on a headstock of the guitar. The flip tuning levers device is made from a three-dimensional printer for accuracy and cost-reduction or is made of titanium for strength and ease of fabrication.

Abstract: A drumhead tuning rim system and method for securing and tuning a drumhead on a drum shell of a drum, comprising a drumhead tuning rim apparatus comprising a cable tension dial assembly configured for operably engaging a rim of the drum so as to increase or decrease tension on the rim, the rim being configured for seating over the drumhead on the drum shell, and an apparatus controller configured for operably interfacing with the drumhead tuning rim apparatus so as to selectively control the cable tension dial assembly and thereby adjust the overall pitch of the drumhead as by adjusting the tension on the rim.

Abstract: A woodwind instrument ligature comprises a plurality of ligature bodies; each body having first and second ends; an aperture extending through each end; the apertures at each first end being coaxial and the apertures at each second end being coaxial; a first tensioning member located in the apertures of the first ends and a second tensioning member located in the apertures of the second ends; each tensioning member having a transversely extending bore, a fixing member extending through the bores of the tensioning members, the fixing member being adjustable to urge the tensioning members together or apart; wherein the ligature body comprises a flexible material having a length to wrap around a mouthpiece and reed for a musical instrument to form a channel to receive the mouthpiece and reed, with the tensioning members being connected by the fixing member in use; each end having first and second contact surfaces; wherein each end may be rotated about the tensioning member between first and second positions; whe

Abstract: An improved body for a stringed instrument wherein the base of the neck slides into a body pocket and onto a flexible protrusion, both made of the body material. The flexible protrusion is drawn toward the pocket by a fastener thereby clamping the base of the neck to the instrument body. No metal parts attach to the base of the neck. The only metal parts involved are the threaded fastener which draws the flexible protrusion toward the pocket and the threaded insert in the flexible protrusion to which this fastener threads. Most of the clamping assembly is hidden inside the body and neck and is not visible when the body and neck are connected. The neck can be removed and replaced rapidly allowing instrument storage in a smaller space and allowing necks of varying scale lengths, fret configurations, or fretboard radius to be attached to the same instrument.

Abstract: An adjustable length strap assembly, including a length of a strapping material having a terminal end secured to an anchoring point located on a rear portion of a body of a stringed instrument, said length threaded through a first leveraging portion of a leveraging member and folded, such that a section of the length of the strapping material is folded over to form a two ply configuration of strapping material consisting of a top ply and a bottom ply, with slid-able longitudinal movement of each ply leveraged by said first leveraging portion of the leveraging member; and a second portion defined by a tongue capable of swivelling about a second leveraging portion of the leveraging member; wherein the slid-able longitudinal movement of the bottom ply relative to the top ply is regulated by movement of a slider of a longitudinally oriented slide-fastening mechanism formed integrally to the top ply.

Abstract: A pick for plucking a string of a stringed musical instrument is provided. The pick includes a planar body having front and rear sides, a distal end having a curved tip for plucking the string, a proximal end for gripping by a user; and a plurality of raised formations provided on at least one of the front and rear sides of the planar body at the distal end, the raised formations being structured and arranged at the distal end to strike the string more than once when the distal end plucks the string.

Abstract: A device may include a drum pedal board with a first end, a second end, a left side, and a right side. Further the device may include an incline section coupled to either the left side or the right side of the drum pedal board, a heel base with variable height, a hinge coupling the first end of the drum pedal board to the heel base, and a drum pedal base coupled to the heel base. The drum pedal board may be substantially parallel to the drum pedal base. The incline section may have a variable incline via a hinge. The heel base may have a variable height via a plurality of heel inserts. An adjustable strap may be operable to secure a user's foot to the drum pedal board. A raised toe section may be operable to raise an end of the drum pedal board.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved string saddle or yoke that can have a string bent thereover without causing a separation of the string's windings.

Abstract: A synthetic reed for use with a woodwind instrument includes a synthetic resin matrix with randomly distributed suspended cane particles. Synthetic fibers, which may comprise one or more different material filaments, may also be impregnated within resin matrix. The cane particles can be present in a concentration of approximately 0.5-10% by volume and at least a majority of the cane particles in the resin matrix can be less than 100 micrometers. The matrix may be formed from two components including an epoxy resin component and a hardener component. The reed exhibits improved strength properties usually provided by synthetics with the warmer sonic properties associated with natural cane reeds and preferred by musicians.

Abstract: Provided is a stand for a musical instrument, the stand including a pole in the shape of a stick extending in one direction, and a plurality of legs extending from the pole and arranged in a circumferential direction of the pole. At least one of the plurality of legs is a rotatable leg attached to the pole so as to be capable of rotating about a central axis of the pole. At least one of the plurality of legs is an offset leg held by the pole such that a longitudinal axis of the offset leg is apart from the central axis of the pole without crossing the central axis when viewed in an axial direction of the pole.