US 12,014,704 B2
Outdoor mushroom instruments
Joshua Rannells, Eau Claire, WI (US); Richard Cooke, Hesperus, CO (US); Lindsay Hill, Chattanooga, TN (US); and Kate Morrison, Signal Mountain, TN (US)
Assigned to PLAYCORE WISCONSIN , INC., Chattanooga, TN (US)
Filed by PlayCore Wisconsin, Inc., Chattanooga, TN (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/241,635.
Application 18/241,635 is a continuation of application No. 17/512,140, filed on Oct. 27, 2021, granted, now 11,749,236.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/105,957, filed on Oct. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0029690 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. G10D 13/06 (2020.01); G10D 13/12 (2020.01); G10D 13/24 (2020.01); G10G 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G10D 13/06 (2013.01) [G10D 13/12 (2020.02); G10D 13/24 (2020.02); G10G 5/005 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An outdoor arrangement of musical instruments comprising:
at least first and second musical instruments, each of the first and second musical instruments comprising:
a support post having a top end and a bottom end, the bottom end being mounted to an outdoor surface; and
a metal dish having a top surface and a bottom surface, the metal dish extending downward from a center to a lower circumferential edge;
in which the metal dish is mounted to the top of the support post;
in which the metal dish is configured to replicate the cap of a mushroom and the support post is configured to replicate the stem of the mushroom; and
in which the metal dish is configured to produce a note when the top surface is struck by a mallet;
wherein the metal dish of the first musical instrument has a first diameter and the metal dish of the second musical instrument has a second diameter, the second diameter being different from first diameter, and
wherein the note produced by the second musical instrument is different from the note produced by the first musical instrument.