CN210006460U

CN210006460U - Violin fingerboard

Info

Publication number: CN210006460U
Application number: CN201920085590.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 程矛; 刘连生; 伊颖
Original assignee: Nanjing Harmony Education Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Nanjing Harmony Education Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-01-18
Filing date: 2019-01-18
Publication date: 2020-01-31
Anticipated expiration: 2029-01-18

Abstract

The embodiment of the utility model provides an kinds of violin fingerboards relates to musical instrument technical field, and this violin fingerboard includes the fingerboard body, this internal cavity that is provided with of fingerboard, and the violin fingerboard still includes a plurality of membrane switches, coding communication device and power supply unit, and a plurality of membrane switches paste and locate the side that the fingerboard body faces the string, and a plurality of membrane switches are connected with coding communication device electricity respectively, and coding communication device is connected by coding unit and wireless communication unit and is constituted, inlays and locates in the cavity, and power supply unit is connected with the coding communication device electricity.

Description

Violin fingerboard

Technical Field

The embodiment of the utility model provides a relate to musical instrument technical field, especially relate to kinds of violin fingerboards (also called: fingerboard).

Background

It is known that violin has a plurality of "standard positions" on any strings, and each of these "standard positions" has corresponding to international note names (international note names refer to series international standard notes with fixed pitch, and these international standard notes are named by letters such as C, D, E, F, G, A and B respectively). after these strings are aligned by the tuning pegs, the violin can accurately emit the corresponding note corresponding to the corresponding international note name when a player presses any "standard positions" with fingers and pulls the bow.

The accurate finding of the 'standard position' on the string is difficulties when a beginner learns the violin, namely, the beginner is difficult to master the intonation, therefore, a teacher usually needs to correct the beginner during teaching, or continuously guides and reminds at during training of the beginner, although the mode of correcting the beginner is effective, the efficiency is low, teachers usually only can guide beginners at the same time, in addition, the teacher also needs to keep enough attention, so that the working strength of the teacher cannot be reduced even when the beginner exercises, when the beginner trains by himself, because the teacher cannot correct the errors in the field in time, the beginner does not have the ability and consciousness of judging the wrong intonation, errors or bad habits can be formed, and the difficulty of correcting the errors can be increased when the teacher corrects the errors in class.

The chinese patent application No. 201110023174.6 seems to propose solutions trying to solve the above problems, which mainly provides microcomputer controlled digital stringed musical instruments, including violins, finger plate sensors for identifying the correct intonation position of the surface of the finger plate are provided on the finger plate of the violin, which are connected to control devices, so that the sound pitch of the touched note key in the control device can be made to be emitted and the correct finger position corresponding to the note key can be indicated on the display screen as long as the beginner presses the string to touch the sensors.

The above-mentioned scheme may provide help for beginners to accurately grasp the intonation during training alone, but it is necessary to rely on the musical instrument of patent publication , which is actually a conventional musical instrument equipped with sensors, a display screen and a control circuit.

In use, although the display is mounted on the surface of the instrument to be viewed, the display is obviously not used for playing habits, and not all beginners are allowed or willing to purchase the "special" instruments, furthermore, the instruments are mainly used for beginners, once the beginners have mastered the skills to be mastered, the instruments are only ordinary instruments, and the sensors, display and control devices are wasted, finally, the sensors, display and control devices must be modified greatly to the body of the normal instrument, so that fixed-length damage is caused to the body of the instrument, and the damage is irrecoverable, for instruments which are carefully manufactured and have collection value, which is unacceptable

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses an purposes provide violin fingerboards, and the beginner can train with the help of this violin fingerboard, and the function is gathered to the key position that this violin fingerboard provided to help the beginner can accurately find on the string with the corresponding "standard position" of international note name when studying, can not cause destructive change to violin itself yet.

The above object of the present invention is achieved by adopting the following technical solution:

violin fingerboards are provided, which comprise a fingerboard body, cavities are arranged in the fingerboard body and used for accommodating a coding communication device and a power supply unit, and a plurality of membrane switches are arranged on the side of the fingerboard body facing to strings and are respectively and electrically connected with the coding communication device.

The coding communication device is formed by connecting a coding unit and a wireless communication unit and is embedded in the cavity; the coding unit is connected with the membrane switches and codes the on-off state and the switch number of each of the membrane switches; the wireless communication unit transmits the code output by the coding unit to an external receiving device by adopting a preset communication protocol.

The power supply unit is electrically connected with the code communication, and the power supply unit at least comprises a battery unit and is arranged in the cavity.

In addition, , because of the development of electronic technology, the coding communication device and the power supply unit are already miniaturized, and therefore, the violin fingerboard can be completely embedded into a cavity formed in the violin fingerboard.

In order to make the technical solution claimed in the present invention can be accurately understood, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to a plurality of drawings.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, is briefly introduced in the drawings required to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of a violin;

fig. 2 is an exploded view of the violin components;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the overall construction of a fingerboard for a violin;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of of the overall structure of the present invention;

fig. 5 is another schematic diagrams of the whole structure of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the internal cavity of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a block diagram of the circuit structure of the present invention.

Description of reference numerals:

10. a headstock; 11. A neck;

12. a peg; 13. A fingerboard body;

131. a capo; 132. A groove;

133. a thin film layer; 134. A cavity;

135. a connection port; 14. A string;

15. carrying out bridge connection; 16. Gathering the chord plate;

17. a panel; 18. A side plate;

19. a back plate; 234a, a coding unit;

234b, a wireless communication unit; 234c, a battery cell;

234d, a charging circuit.

Detailed Description

In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more comprehensible, the embodiments of the present invention are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in an embodiment of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only the partial embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments.

What needs to be explained in advance is: although the violin fingerboard of the present invention is applicable to all types of violin instruments, in order to prevent excessive space from being wasted during the explanation, the applicant has made a corresponding detailed explanation only by taking an adult violin as an example in the following specific embodiments. All the embodiments described with regard to the violin can be applied to other violin instruments, for example: viola, cello, bass, etc.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the existing violin is mainly composed of a head 10, a neck 11 substantially formed with 10 of the head 10, a peg 12, a fingerboard body 13, strings 14, a bridge 15, a string-gathering plate 16, a face plate 17, side plates 18, a back plate 19, etc., wherein the strings 14 are tensioned and fixed by the peg 12 and the string-gathering plate 16, the bridge 15 is disposed between the strings 14 and the string-gathering plate 16 to tighten each string 14, the fingerboard body 13 is disposed above the neck 11, below the strings 14 and connected to the neck 11, and gaps are provided between the upper surface of the fingerboard body 13 and the strings 14.

In the above-described violin structure, the fingerboard body 13 has a plurality of "standard positions" thereon, and when the strings 14 are pitched, the player presses the strings 14 to the "standard positions" of the fingerboard body 13, and plays a standard pitch corresponding to an international pitch by pulling the bow. The tightness of the strings 14 can be adjusted by turning the tuning peg 12.

When a beginner plays a violin, he or she needs to press the strings 14 with his or her fingers, bring the pressed portions into contact with the fingerboard body 13, and pull the bow to play the sound. If the player or beginner presses the strings 14 to the fingerboard body 13 with an inaccurate position, the pitch of the violin sound is inaccurate when he pulls the bow, even if the pitch of the strings 14 is properly adjusted.

Therefore, teachers usually judge the performance intonation of beginners through trained pitch auditory sense during teaching and need to constantly guide and remind at , the mode of correcting beginners is inefficient, teachers usually only guide beginners at the same time, in addition, teachers also need to keep enough attention, so that the working strength of teachers cannot be reduced even when beginners practice music.

The inventor of the present invention found in long-term violin playing, training and teaching that if the fingerboard of violin is properly modified to make it play its original role, it can also collect the position where the string 14 is pressed down by the finger of the player or beginner to the fingerboard body 13 and send the collected information to external devices, such as smart phone, personal terminal, etc. thus, it is possible to make these intelligent devices analyze and judge whether the pressed position of the player or beginner is the "standard position" by using the collected information, and judge whether the pitch drawn by him and the corresponding international note name are .

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 3, the prior art fiddle fingerboard body 13 generally has the general shape of generally wedge-shaped, with the end closer to the headstock 10 being relatively narrow and the end closer to the bridge 15 being relatively wide, the upper surface of the fingerboard body 13 generally has an arc of in the transverse direction, the lower surface of the fingerboard body 13 is primarily flat, and generally has arcuate grooves 132 in the section near the bridge 15, and a raised capo 131 is also generally provided at the front end of the fingerboard body 13.

Referring to fig. 4, 6 and 7, the -class embodiments of the present invention include a fingerboard body 13, a cavity 134 is provided in the fingerboard body 13, thin film layers 133 are additionally provided on the side of the fingerboard body 13 facing the strings (the upper surface of the fingerboard body 13), and a plurality of thin film switches are provided on the thin film layers 133.

The coding communication device is formed by connecting a coding unit 234a and a wireless communication unit 234b and is embedded in the cavity 134; the size of the cavity may be designed according to the overall size of the encoding communication device and the power supply unit described later in the specific embodiment. The coding unit 234a is connected to the plurality of membrane switches, and codes the on/off state and the switch number of each switch in the membrane switches; the wireless communication unit 234b transmits the codes to an external receiving device using a predetermined communication protocol. The power supply unit may be formed of a battery unit 234c electrically connected to the coded communication device and disposed within the cavity 134 to provide power to the coded communication device.

It should be noted that the size of the film layer 133 of the present invention can be designed to be equal to , or can be reduced or changed according to the specific requirements, compared to the size of the upper surface of the finger board 13. referring to fig. 5, in another specific embodiment of of the present invention, the size of the film layer 133 is reduced relative to the size of the upper surface of the finger board 13. however, no matter how the size of the film layer 133 is changed, the film layer 133 must be designed to accommodate all the film switches corresponding to the aforementioned "standard position".

Referring to fig. 1, in another specific embodiment of category of the present invention, all the membrane switches are sequentially distributed on the membrane layer 133 along the axial direction of the strings 14, and any positions of the membrane switches are finally located at "standard positions" on the fingerboard body 13, and any "standard positions" correspond to international phonetic names only .

Referring to fig. 6 and 7, in another embodiment of of the present invention, a charging circuit 234d for supplying charging power to the battery unit 234c may be further disposed in the power supply unit, and for this purpose, a connection port 135 for supplying an external power source is correspondingly disposed on the fingerboard body 13, and the connection port 135 is electrically connected to the charging circuit 234 d.

In the foregoing embodiments, the wireless communication unit 234b may use any feasible wireless communication method and protocol, such as: bluetooth series communication protocols to communicate with external devices.

The film layer 133 may be attached to the upper surface of the fingerboard body 13. For aesthetic reasons, the original thickness of the fingerboard body 13 may be appropriately thinned so that the thickness of the fingerboard body 13 with the film layer 133 attached thereon is kept substantially the same as the thickness of the original fingerboard body 13. The upper surface of the fingerboard body 13 to which the thin film layer 133 is attached may also be appropriately beautified to match the overall appearance design of the violin. However, the on/off operation function of any membrane switch provided on the membrane layer 133 cannot be affected regardless of the beautification.

The coding unit is used for coding the positions of the membrane switches on the membrane layer 133 and the on-off states of the membrane switches and outputting the coded signals, any membrane switches only correspond to codes in , and a specific coding circuit and a coding scheme can be designed by a designer according to needs in a specific implementation process, so that the invention is not limited to the specific coding circuit and the coding scheme.

The charging circuit 234d may be connected to the external power supply in any feasible manner, such as: and a micro USB charging interface is designed.

The utility model discloses an concrete application examples:

having the utility model discloses after each string 14 of the violin of fingerboard body 13 has adjusted the accuracy via peg 12, when the beginner used this violin to play the training, when his finger pressed string 14 to fingerboard body 13, the on-off state of the membrane switch who arranges in the relevant position of fingerboard body 13 upper surface thin layer 133 will change. The on-off state of the membrane switch is immediately transmitted to the encoding unit 234a, the encoding unit 234a encodes the number and the on-off state of the membrane switch and transmits the code to the wireless communication unit 234b, and the wireless communication unit 234b may use a predetermined communication protocol, for example: bluetooth 4.2 protocol, to an external receiving device.

The external receiving device may be a smart phone or a smart personal terminal. Taking the external receiving device as a smart phone, when the smart phone receives the code sent by the wireless communication unit 234b, the code can be analyzed by using corresponding software to obtain the position information of the beginner pressing on the strings 14 to the fingerboard body 13, and based on the position information, the frequency data of the international standard tone corresponding to the position information can be found in the international standard tone name data stored in advance. Simultaneously, smart mobile phone still can be through its own or external pickup apparatus, gather the sound that uses the bow to pull out on string 14 when the beginner presses string 14, and compare with the frequency data of aforementioned international standard sound again after carrying out appropriate processing to this sound, show the result of contrast on smart mobile phone's display screen at last and show, whether accurate in order to indicate the beginner to press the position on fingerboard body 13 to string 14, thereby can reach the purpose of reminding at any time and correcting the beginner accuracy of intonation mistake.

To sum up, with the help of the utility model provides an above-mentioned modified fingerboard can be under the prerequisite of not making destructive change to the violin, can conveniently gather and convey out the beginner to the string 14 position to fingerboard body 13 to do benefit to and adopt intelligent terminal equipment to guide in real time and correct his intonation when the beginner trains to play. And may also be used to help align strings 14.

The embodiments or implementation modes in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments may be referred to each other.

In the description herein, references to the terms " embodiments," " embodiments," "exemplary embodiments," "examples," "specific examples," or " examples," etc., mean that the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described in connection with the embodiments or examples are included in at least embodiments or examples of the present invention.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and not to limit the same; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; such modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Claims

The violin fingerboard comprises a fingerboard body, and is characterized in that a cavity is arranged in the fingerboard body;

the film switches are attached to the side, facing the strings, of the fingerboard body, and are electrically connected with the coding communication device respectively;

the coding communication device is formed by connecting a coding unit and a wireless communication unit and is embedded in the cavity; the coding unit is connected with the membrane switches and codes the on-off state of each membrane switch in the membrane switches and the membrane switch number; the wireless communication unit transmits the code to an external receiving device by adopting a preset communication protocol;

the power supply unit is electrically connected with the coding communication device, and the power supply unit at least comprises a battery unit and is arranged in the cavity.
2. The violin fingerboard of claim 1, wherein the membrane switches are sequentially distributed along the strings, and any membrane switches are disposed at standard positions on the fingerboard body, wherein the standard positions only correspond to international titles.
3. The violin fingerboard of claim 1 or 2, wherein the power supply unit has a charging circuit that can supply a charge to the battery unit, and a connection port for supplying an external power source is provided on the fingerboard body, the connection port being electrically connected to the charging circuit.