DE8608782U1 - Musical instrument in the form of a monochord - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a musical instrument in the form of a Monochords, which are primarily used to train students to be used in music lessons.

Musical instruments in the form of a monochord are in themselves known. They generally consist of a resonance box and an overstretched string that is wound through a winch mechanism can be stretched at the front end of the bridge.

With the previously known musical instruments of the

ten type runs between a saddle and a solid Bridge of tensioned string over a second, freely movable string Web. By pressing the said string on the movable bridge and plucking the string, it is then the associated tone is produced by vibrating the string.

The present invention is based on the object such a musical instrument in the form of a monochord to create that can be used for didactic purposes, especially in music lessons for schoolchildren can. It is based on the idea that by paying special attention to the frets, one special Sound can be assigned.

A musical instrument is used to solve the task at hand proposed the type mentioned, which is characterized in that the distance of each spaced a semitone apart in the fingerboard Frets are insertable and removable.

According to a particular embodiment, the frets are designed as plug-in frets in the form of cylindrical rods with a handle provided at one end, which can be inserted or repositioned in corresponding, circular-segment-shaped recesses in the fingerboard, such that a convex part of the plug-in collar the upper _fl! Exceeds the surface of the fingerboard. f

With the musical instrument according to the invention, the Significant advantage achieved that by a fixed in semitone spacing and by appropriate transverse bores Fixed fret division of the fingerboard the vibrating string can be shortened by a certain distance of the total scale, in such a way that there is a tone of the

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The measure according to the invention is the music didactic Achieved that starting, for example from a tone of a scale at any point in the corresponding holes or AusSSpar'ÜMy & ri k O Γι Π e Γι, U Hi ucfl Ξ Chu L S Γ "in L! Γι ~ are used

teaches the musical relationship between the arrangement of the frets irr. Fretboard and the generated V.) To be able to point out sound.

By repositioning the cuffs, for example within one and a half octaves all major, or church modes.

Of course, the frets that can be used can also have a triangular or any other cross-sectional shape, which then in corresponding recesses can be inserted or plugged into the fingerboard.

It is particularly advantageous to use the Rs- in the upper block

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* tion of the unused cuffs to be provided.

Based on the drawing, the example of a preferred Embodiment the musical instrument in the form of a monochord are explained in more detail according to the invention.

In the drawing shows

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a musical instrument according to of the invention in principle illustration.

Fig. 2 shows a side view of Fig. 1, and

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Fig. 3 shows a front view of Fig. 1 or Fig. 2 and corresponds to the plan view of the top block.

As can be seen from the drawing, the musical

^ instrument in the form of a monochord made from a rectangular

m i gen resonance box 1, which can also be any start; may have their shape. In the resonance box are in

Two sound holes 2, 3 are provided in the resonance ceiling.

Γ \ On the soundboard there is one over the entire length

Ii of the resonance box and the fretboard extending beyond it 4 applied, via a saddle 5a and a

■ * Bridge 5b is a single string 6 from the left, frontal

jj side end to the winch mechanism 7 on the right

Stretched at the end of the fingerboard, which is

. handle 8 can be cocked.

In the fingerboard 4 are in the front area, accordingly

a pitch range of one and a half octaves and with a distance of half a tone, circular cutouts 9 provided. In these recesses can from

j cylindrical chopsticks 10 and a handle device 11

O existing cuffs are inserted in such a way that

a convex part 12 protrudes from the surface of the fingerboard. Pressing the string on the towering convex Parts of the frets can have the appropriate tone be generated.

The arrangement of the inserted frets in the fingerboard 4 can be done at any time, with all major, minor or Church modes can be produced.

To store the unneeded cuffs on the saddle-side upper block 14 several recesses or

Bores 13 can be provided in which the not required cuffs are inserted.

Claims (4)

Musical instrument in the form of a monochord, consisting of from a resonance box with attached fingerboard and a string stretched over it, which runs through a winch mechanism, lateral vortex or can be stretched by a guitar mechanism, characterized in that the frets arranged at a distance of one semitone from one another in the fingerboard can be inserted and removed are. 2. Musical instrument according to claim 1, characterized characterized in that the frets as plug-in frets in the form of cylindrical rods (10) with a handle device arranged at one end (11) are formed in corresponding, circular segment-shaped Recesses (9) in the fingerboard (4) can be inserted or repositioned in such a way that a convex Part (12) of the plug-in collar projects beyond the upper surface of the handle board (4). 3. Musical instrument according to claim 1, characterized marked that the frets form a have triangular or rectangular cross-section and in the corresponding triangular or rectangular shape Recesses in the fingerboard (4) can be inserted and repositioned. 4. Musical instrument according to claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that d-? 3 im full loops 0 '.> Block (14) holes in the frame rim (13) or recesses to accommodate the no used cuffs are provided.