A fastening structure for fastening a to-be-fastened component to a wooden component by using a screw, wherein the wooden component is made of wood having a specific gravity of 0.08 g/cm.sup.3 to 0.85 g/cm.sup.3 inclusive, the screw has a nominal diameter of 0.8 mm to 3.5 mm inclusive, and the distance between a neutral position in a longitudinal direction of an effective screw part, which is the portion where the wooden component and a male screw part formed in a shaft part of the screw mesh together, and the surface of the wooden component that comes into contact with the to-be-fastened component is 1 mm to 15 mm inclusive.

A fastening structure for fastening a to-be-fastened component to a wooden component by using a screw, wherein the wooden component is made of wood having a specific gravity of 0.08 g/cm.sup.3 to 0.85 g/cm.sup.3 inclusive, the screw has a nominal diameter of 0.8 mm to 3.5 mm inclusive, and the distance between a neutral position in a longitudinal direction of an effective screw part, which is the portion where the wooden component and a male screw part formed in a shaft part of the screw mesh together, and the surface of the wooden component that comes into contact with the to-be-fastened component is 1 mm to 15 mm inclusive.

A key for a keyboard device includes a resin key body and one or a plurality of woody boards attached along at least part of a pair of side portions of the key body. The key body includes an upper portion protrusion which extends along an upper end of each of the side portions and is formed continuous with the top portion, the upper portion protrusion protruding in a lateral direction of the key body. Each woody board is disposed such that an upper end surface thereof is in contact with a lower surface of the upper portion protrusion. The upper portion protrusion has a thickness dimension in a vertical direction smaller than a thickness dimension of the top portion of the key body.

There is provided a keyboard instrument in which a plurality of white keys and a plurality of black keys are arranged in a widthwise direction, a total width dimension of the plurality of white keys that constitute one octave is set to 160 mm or less, and a width dimension of an upper surface of each of the black keys is set to 9 mm or more and 10.5 mm or less.

A keyboard includes a frame and a plurality of mass bodies. The mass bodies are arranged in parallel to each other. Each of the mass bodies is pivotally supported to pivot about a pivot fulcrum with respect to the frame. The mass bodies are at least one of a plurality of keys configured to be directly operated, a plurality of interlocking members configured to pivot in conjunction with a corresponding one of the plurality of keys, embedded members in the plurality of keys or embedded members in the plurality of interlocking members. At least some of the mass bodies include notched portions being arranged in order from a pitch, which is equal to or greater than a lowest pitch, to a highest pitch. The notched portions are different from each other in at least one of size, position, or distance from the pivot fulcrum.

The present disclosure proposes a keybed device, including: a keybed support; a keybed arranged on the keybed support; a key height limiting column arranged in one-to-one correspondence with each key in the keybed, and an end of the key height limiting column is fixed on a bottom surface of the corresponding key; a pressure detecting device arranged in one-to-one correspondence under each key height limiting column to detect a pressing strength of each key height limiting column; and a flexible support structure arranged below each key height limiting column and located on at least one side of each pressure detection device. The keybed device includes a flexible support structure, which can avoid false triggering of the Aftertouch effect. A same depth is pressed down from the flexible support structure to obtain a consistent Aftertouch effect, and the performance effect is controllable.

A key assembly includes a capstan and a key. The key includes an upper surface, a hole part having a first inner side surface supporting the capstan, and an opening part arranged between the upper surface and the hole part, the opening part having a second inner side surface surrounding the capstan.

An electronic keyboard instrument includes at least one panel supporting member which supports a panel, the at least one panel supporting member is disposed in spaces formed on an upper surface of a chassis, and the spaces are spaces generated behind rear ends of white keys between two adjacent black keys by arranging a plurality of keys in a manner that rear ends of a plurality of black keys are positioned behind rear ends of a plurality of white keys.

The invention relates to a method for producing a multi-purpose isotropic hydroxylapatite/gelatine composite material, involving at least the following steps: a) providing a suspension of powdered hydroxylapatite in a liquid medium selected from the group comprising a C1-C10 alcohol, particularly ethanol, another dispersing agent that can be mixed with water, water, and mixtures thereof; b) adding an aqueous solution of gelatine, preferably at a concentration of 5 to 25 wt. % gelatine, to the suspension; c) agitating the mixture at a predefined temperature for a predefined period of time, preferably in the region of 1 to 10 hours, until the liquid medium has been fully or partially evaporated; and d) optionally drying the product obtained in step c). In a specific embodiment, the method is characterised in that the product obtained in step c) or d) is additionally infiltrated with at least one aliphatic polyether in an additional step e1). In another specific embodiment, the method is characterised in that the product obtained in step c), d) or e1) is additionally brought into contact with at least one agent for crosslinking the gelatine chains, in step e2). A further aspect of the invention relates to the composite material produced using the method described above, and the use of same, particularly as artificial ivory.

A keyboard includes a frame and a plurality of mass bodies. The mass bodies are arranged in parallel to each other. Each of the mass bodies is pivotally supported to pivot about a pivot fulcrum with respect to the frame. The mass bodies are at least one of a plurality of keys configured to be directly operated, a plurality of interlocking members configured to pivot in conjunction with a corresponding one of the plurality of keys, embedded members in the plurality of keys or embedded members in the plurality of interlocking members. At least some of the mass bodies include notched portions being arranged in order from a pitch, which is equal to or greater than a lowest pitch, to a highest pitch. The notched portions are different from each other in at least one of size, position, or distance from the pivot fulcrum.