Patent ID: 7351897

Claim:
A finger exercise device for a wind instrument comprising: a housing having a chamber defined by a planar front wall and an arcuate opposite rear wall defining a longitudinal axis therebetween, a top wall, and a bottom wall, the axis extending in the region between the top, bottom, front and rear walls, the arcuate wall manifesting the configuration of a horn wind instrument and the planar wall manifesting a different wind instrument; and a plurality of finger exercising resiliently mounted first plungers associated with the top wall and depending from the top wall into the chamber between the front and rear walls, each plunger simulating the spacing, configuration and resilient bias load on resilient bias loaded plungers of a corresponding wind instrument, all said plungers manifesting the resilient bias load and spacing of corresponding resilient bias loaded valve operating plungers on the horn and on the different wind instrument.