US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Trumpet with improved features and methods for making same" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,588, issued on Sept. 1.

"Trumpet with improved features and methods for making same" was invented by Charles A Macaluso (Palm City, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discontinuity-free trumpet is presented. It maintains a circular cross-sectional shape throughout the length of the instrument, and its centerline in every section is straight, a tangent circular arc, or composed of multiple tangent circular arcs. Improvements to the leadpipe, mouthpiece receiver, tuning slide, valve assembly and bell to this end are disclosed. Also, through careful design of the bell, using a modified Bessel horn shape as the basis, the harmonics of...