US 7,459,615 B2
Musical tone apparatus and method for manufacturing or altering musical tone apparatus
Kenji Kamada, Hamamatsu (Japan)
Assigned to Kawai Musical Instruments MFG. Co., Ltd., Hamamatsu-shi (Japan)
Filed on May 29, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/806,048.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-151287 (JP), filed on May 31, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0289428 A1, Dec. 20, 2007
Int. Cl. G10C 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 84—212  [84/280] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A musical tone apparatus comprising:
at least one soundboard in a musical tone apparatus for vibrating and generating sounds;
at least two board-shape contact member for being softer than the soundboard and being contacted on the both sides of the soundboard;
at least two mounting members for being harder than the contact member, being contacted on one side of the both contact member and on the opposite side of said soundboard of the both contact member;
a plural of fixing member for going through said soundboard and said both contact member, making said both mounting member closer to each other and holding and fixing said soundboard and said both contact member between said mounting member.