Patent ID: 7208668
Filing Date: 2007-04-24
Classification: G10C

Abstract:
1. A keyboard device for a keyboard instrument, comprising: a plurality of chassis arranged side by side in a left-right direction; a plurality of keys pivotally supported by said chassis; a plurality of hammers pivotally supported by said chassis, for each being pivotally moved in accordance with depression of an associated one of said keys; and a plurality of guides formed in said chassis and each having a pair of left and right sidewalls which are opposed to an associated one of said hammers from opposite sides, for restricting lateral motion of the associated one of said hammers, wherein out of said plurality of guides, one at a boundary of each adjacent two of said chassis has said pair of left and right sidewalls formed by an end sidewall of one of said adjacent two chassis and an end sidewall of the other of said adjacent two chassis.