Abstract: An all weather safety whistle and sound generator is provided having a mouthpiece and a sound producing opening for emitting sound when air is blown into the mouthpiece, and having a cowling structure covering over the sound producing opening protecting the opening from substances exterior to the apparatus while simultaneously enabling the opening to produce sound.

Abstract: An all weather safety whistle and sound generator is provided having a mouthpiece and a sound producing opening for emitting sound when air is blown into the mouthpiece, and having a cowling structure covering over the sound producing opening protecting the opening from substances exterior to the apparatus while simultaneously enabling the opening to produce sound.

Abstract: A finger rest for a recorder, which is attached on the under side of a body of the recorder for facilitating support of the weight of the recorder body with a thumb of the right hand of a player, comprises a body holding section having a bottom portion of a predetermined length in the longitudinal direction of the recorder body and side portions on both sides of the bottom portion, and a thumb supporting section projecting from the holding section downward in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the body holding section. The body holding section has a cross section in the form of an arc so as to engage the outer periphery of the recorder body with a spring force. The arc is a major arc having a circumference longer than that of a half circle.

Abstract: An ocarina includes a generally oval body enclosing a hollow chamber, a mouthpiece, a passageway connecting the mouthpiece and the chamber, a vent slot against which the air within the chamber may vibrate, and a plurality of pitch control holes. By covering or uncovering the pitch control holes with his or her fingers, the user of the ocarina can produce the notes of the pentatonic scale. Alternate embodiments of the ocarina can be produced for playing tones within the soprano, alto, tenor or bass tonal range. The device can also be configured to have three pitch control holes per enclosed chamber, or to include two enclosed hollow chambers of air, but in any configuration, the instrument can only produce the notes of the pentatonic scale.

Abstract: In construction of a musical recorder, a sound collector such as a microphone is attached to the body of the recorder at the position of the constant belly of the basic vibration of resonant air columns formed in the bore of the recorder at musical tone generation in order to obtain constant sound collecting level with large howling margin at musical tone regeneration without any influence of the wall configuration of the bore.

Abstract: A recorder wherein moisture condensation in the windway due to temperature difference between the windway itself and the breathing passing therethrough is prevented, so that the sound will not be blocked by the moisture adhering to the windway during performance.A heating means is attached to a tube member of the windway unit to reduce the temperature differences between the windway and the breathing blown into the windway to minimum to thereby prevent moisture condensation. When there is no moisture condensation in the windway, there will be no turbulence in the breath blown through the windway, assuring adequate amount of breathing to be supplied from the outlet to correctly act on the edge of a sounding window.

Abstract: A mouthpiece (1) for a musical wind instrument comprises an inlet (5), an outlet (6), a hollow chamber (7) for collecting liquid from inlet air, and an enclosed windway (2), in which is disposed in the mouthpiece and leads to the outlet (6), wherein the inlet (5) and the windway (2) are interconnected via the hollow chamber (7). In use, the player's breath passes through the hollow chamber (7), allowing liquid to collect in the chamber, and then through the windway (2) out of the mouthpiece. The moisture-reduced air prevents sound disturbance and can be used for a considerable time before cleaning out becomes necessary. Also, the flow can be constricted which reduces the likelihood of overblowing by inexperienced players.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hand held musical pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe, having a plurality of longitudinally spaced wall openings which are positioned and arranged to be selectively closed by finger action of the player. There is included a longitudinally slidable sleeve member positioned and arranged on the exterior of the pipe body for selective longitudinal positioning by one of the fingers of the player to at least partially cover or uncover one of the wall openings to thereby provide for a tone pitch change.

Abstract: A recorder training device comprising a recorder body having a plurality of tone holes provided with a couple of electrodes opposingly disposed around them such that the electrodes may be indicated by electric lights on the corresponding tone hole figures of a recorder pattern shown on an indicator plate, or on the electric lights on the musical scales of a music score pattern indicated on an indicator plate.

Abstract: A plug for the mouthpiece of a wooden recorder, molded integral from plastic material, has a concave and a flat end wall interconnected by side and intermediate walls. A lower side wall, or an intermediate wall parallel thereto, has one or two outer humps designed to contact the inner mouthpiece surface and is sufficiently deformable to flex inward upon insertion into the mouthpiece.

Abstract: A novel synthetic resin made wind instrument having high rigidity in spite of its thin-walled body portion and capable of producing sympathetic sounds with excellent timbre is provided according to this invention. The wind instrument provided according to the first embodiment of this invention comprises an inner pipe with a small wall thickness, an outer pipe also small in wall thickness, and a plurality of ribs provided in the hollow portion formed between said inner and outer pipes. The outer pipe is press-fitted over the inner pipe so that said both pipes are securely joined to each other. According to the second embodiment of this invention, there is provided a wind instrument composed of an inner pipe, an outer pipe and a plurality of ribs formed therebetween, wherein a rigidity reinforcement layer formed by metal plating or other means is provided in the surface areas defined by the external surface of the inner pipe and the side faces of the ribs.

Abstract: A musical instrument of the woodwind type in combination with a raised oblong resonance chamber, said instrument configured in the shape of a human hand. The resonance feature is utilized by placing the oblong or blister-like protrusion against the cheek of a user which, when tapped on its opposite side achieves tonal variations as a function of size variation and degree of modulations of the oral cavity. The woodwind function is achieved by blowing through a mouthpiece (the thumb digit) and egress of wind passing through the fingerhole portions of the remaining four finger digits.

Abstract: An improved fipple block is provided for use in connection with a wind instrument, such as a bass recorder, having a hollow tube, a fipple lip, and a fipple opening. The fipple block is formed from a solid mass of material having a substantially cylindrical exterior surface and configuration. In one embodiment, a first section of the fipple block has a larger outer diameter than a second and third section, so that the second and third sections may be inserted within the hollow tube of the wind instrument, with the first section protruding from the end of the hollow tube. The first section includes a first passageway formed therein, and it is directed at right angles to the cylindrical exterior surface of the block and is adapted to receive a mouthpiece. In addition, the second and third sections have second and third passageways, respectively.