Topic: hang patent
whats the deal?
can people 'copy' the hang design and produce their own version?
bill says NO
there IS a patent on the hang!
- Danny
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Re: hang patent
And how would this affect a U.S. manufacturer? Does Swiss patent law apply here as well? Internationally?
- in2nation
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Re: hang patent
would felix and sabina help a willing tuner to begin small scale production of a hang like instrument?
- Torbz
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Re: hang patent
They would have to apply for a world-wide patent, which is very expensive. I don't imagine they have done so.
Re: hang patent
The patent is not their from the first place. They copied the instrument from Africa(i think so..) or from somewhere else. I have started making one of my own. Maybe it will not have the same resonance at the begin but i hope for 'evolution'.
Any suggestions on how to tune the steel disk are welcome.
CHristos
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- in2nation
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Re: hang patent
the tones are created using a gas nitriding method....and tuning so the harminic 5th is stronger.... good luck with your 'copy' gantsa...
- Torbz
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Re: hang patent
Read the research papers they released too, there's quite a bit of info there on the five different 'hits' they use to produce each note and the manufacturing process of the metal.
- diamondlight
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anyone got an easy link to those research papers? I remember finding them once, but cant quite remember where... (sorry for laziness)
- Floatilla
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Archived versions of “Research Papers - Steeldrums†by Felix Rohner und Sabina Schärer at web.archive.org
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www … /index.htm
ta to "das Hangblog"
- Torbz
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Re: hang patent
If those links don't work, I do have a complete offline copy of them, which I could put up here too, if required.
I'm hoping to finish my re-write of them soon too, as the broken english in some parts is a little confusing.
Re: hang patent
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