Patent ID: 7893333
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: G10D

Abstract:
1. A brass-wind mouthpiece for connection to a mouthpiece-receiver of a brass-wind instrument via a hollow shank adapted to connect the mouthpiece to the mouthpiece-receiver, comprising: a cup having a rim at its proximate end and a throat at its distal end, the distal end having a receptacle for the hollow shank to connect the throat to the mouthpiece-receiver of the brass-wind instrument, the rim having a circumferential inside edge, a circumferential outside edge and a surface contour extending between the inside edge and the outside edge, the contour having a superior abutment adapted to abut a musician's upper lip, an inferior abutment adapted to abut the musician's lower lip, and lateral shoulders adapted to face the corners of the musician's mouth where his upper lip and lower lip meet, the contour further having an impression that is the path of apex points on the contour around the circumference of the rim and a bite that is the portion of the contour between the impression and the inside edge and characterized by, the lateral shoulders sloping outwardly away from the proximate end of the cup; the impression having a variable radius, the radius of the impression being shortest proximate the lateral shoulders, where the impression is proximate the inside edge and the radius of the impression being longest proximate the superior and inferior abutments, where the bite is pronouncedly rounded; the inside edge having a smaller radius proximate the lateral shoulders than the abutments such that the rim presents an ovular opening with its major axis aligned with the upper and lower abutments; the shoulders defining a dip in the contour toward the distal end of the cup and thereby reducing the volume of the cup; the bite being sharper proximate the shoulders than the superior and inferior abutments; and the bite being narrower proximate the shoulders than the superior and inferior abutments.