Patents Assigned to Kaman Music Corporation
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Patent number: 7750219Abstract: A bar chime apparatus has a mantle with one or more pivot mechanisms that connect two or more bar segments. The one or more pivot mechanisms have two or more slots. The two or more bar segments can be folded and secured in the two or more slots. Two or more bar chimes are suspended from the mantle.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2008Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Kaman Music CorporationInventors: Richard Simons, Raymond Enhoffer, Andrze J. Krol
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Patent number: 7183473Abstract: An ergonomic stringed instrument is described, presenting a novel ergonomic design incorporating one or more of an angled waist, provided as part of the waist portion of the stringed instrument bowl or body, and a contoured ridge, provided along at least a portion of the back of the stringed instrument bowl or body. The angled waist is provided on the treble side of the stringed instrument, which side may rest on the leg of a performer, and is configured with an angled contour towards the back of the stringed instrument. The contoured ridge runs along at least a portion of the bass side of the stringed instrument back and defines at least a slightly concave portion on the treble side of the contoured ridge.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2004Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Kaman Music CorporationInventors: Frank I. Untermyer, Robert Darren Wallace, David McDonald, Scott Keeley, Julian Groeli
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Patent number: 6372970Abstract: An acoustical stringed instrument includes a body, which has a top member having a generally flat forward part. The body also has a back member which includes a side wall with an upper section and a lower section and an inner side wall surface generally perpendicular to the forward part of the top member. A neck member of the instrument has an elongated upper portion extending upwardly from the upper section of the body side wall. Additionally, the neck member has an elongated lower portion extending through the interior of the body between the upper section and the lower section of the side wall and spaced rearwardly of the forward part of the top member. The elongated lower neck portion has an upper mounting means fixed to the inner side wall surface at the upper section of the body side wall, and a lower mounting means fixed to the inner side wall surface at the lower section of the body side wall.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2000Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: Kaman Music CorporationInventors: Robert H. Saunders, Jr., Nicholas Ladutko, Donald M. Johnson, Frank I. Untermyer, William P. Vassilopoulos, Clifford Gunsallus, William Hudak
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Patent number: 6294718Abstract: A top member for the body of an acoustical stringed instrument includes a forward part having an interior portion spaced inwardly from the side wall of the body after the top member has been assembled to the body, the interior portion having a pair of composite material layers with a core layer bonded therebetween. The forward part further has a core free flex edge portion which borders the outer periphery of the interior portion, and is made by having the pair of composite material layers bonded in contact with each other. A skirt projects rearwardly from the rear surface of the flex edge portion and extends along the edge of the flex edge portion. When its top member is assembled with the body, the skirt slidably fits over the sidewall of the body.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2000Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Kaman Music CorporationInventors: Robert H. Saunders, Jr., Nicholas Ladutko, Donald M. Johnson, Frank I. Untermyer, William P. Vassilopoulos, Clifford Gunsallus, William Hudak
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Patent number: 6271457Abstract: A bridge type piezoelectric pickup for guitars and other stringed instruments that has a flexible circuit board carrying a pair of transversely polarized piezoelectric crystals for each string, the two crystals of each string being closely spaced from one another along the length of the string and supporting a common saddle resting on both of the crystals and supportingly engaging the associated string.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2000Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: Kaman Music CorporationInventor: William Hudak
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Patent number: 5760320Abstract: A stringed instrument, such as a guitar, has a finger-board, a headstock located at one end of the finger-board, and a plurality of machine-heads mounted on the finger-board for adjusting the tension of the strings. Each machine-head has a rotatable winding peg for winding a respective string to be adjusted, and a rotatable adjusting handle coupled to the winding peg for rotating the peg. The axis of rotation of the adjusting handle is inclined rearwardly relative to the plane of the finger-board and is non-parallel to the axis of rotation of the winding peg. In addition, the axis of rotation of the adjusting handle is inclined at an acute angle relative to a perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the instrument and generally toward the opposite end of the instrument, in order to facilitate the ability of a person playing the instrument to locate and adjust each machine-head.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1996Date of Patent: June 2, 1998Assignee: Kaman Music CorporationInventor: Mark A. Gooday
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Patent number: 5731535Abstract: A control circuit for use with a guitar or other musical instrument having an electromechanical pickup for converting natural vibrations of the instrument into electrical signals amplified or otherwise conditioned by a sound system to produce a derivative sound, controls a given parameter, such as the loudness or intensity, of the derivative sound and includes one or more pads of electrically conductive material fixed to the instrument and defining one or more discrete areas on the outer surface of the instrument which are sensitive to such discrete areas being touched by or brought into close proximity to a finger, hand or other body part of the performer, thereby allowing the performer to easily and quickly make changes in the given parameter of the derivative sound.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1997Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: Kaman Music CorporationInventor: William B. Hudak
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Patent number: D303270Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1986Date of Patent: September 5, 1989Assignee: Kaman Music CorporationInventor: C. William Kaman, II
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Patent number: D400559Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1995Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignee: Kaman Music CorporationInventor: Mark A. Gooday