EP0085001A1 - Blasinstrument mit regulierbarer Klangfarbe - Google Patents

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EP0085001A1
EP0085001A1 EP83400116A EP83400116A EP0085001A1 EP 0085001 A1 EP0085001 A1 EP 0085001A1 EP 83400116 A EP83400116 A EP 83400116A EP 83400116 A EP83400116 A EP 83400116A EP 0085001 A1 EP0085001 A1 EP 0085001A1
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    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10D—STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • G10D—STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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  • the invention relates to wind instruments, of the type comprising upstream a wave generator device, such as trumpet mouthpiece, simple clarinet reed or saxophone, double oboe reed, bevel, etc., followed downstream of a standing wave development pipe with a different name depending on the instruments concerned.
  • a wave generator device such as trumpet mouthpiece, simple clarinet reed or saxophone, double oboe reed, bevel, etc.
  • the instrument is provided with a device for lateral disturbance of the air column, which comprises a piston capable of sliding in a hollow body arranged laterally with respect to the air column and opening out. directly in it, the end of the piston facing the air column being able to move in the body and even to protrude outside the body by encroaching on the air column, and in that it is provided means of fine and precise displacement of the piston, whereby the timbre of the instrument can be modified without noticeably affecting the pitch of the instrument.
  • impedance is the resistance to propagation of the wave inside the tube.
  • the displacement of the piston in the piston body is advantageously made by a threaded assembly, preferably associated with a fine marking graduation, for example of the type. "Palmer”.
  • the Applicant has found that the invention allows easy adjustment of the stamp, even during play, and the richness of the stamps thus obtained is very great.
  • FIG 1 shows the mouthpiece 1 fixed by its tail in the plug or mouthpiece support 2, and extended by the mouthpiece branch 3, which is followed conventionally by the cylindrical bore of the trumpet, not shown, is connecting at an elbow 4 from the roof 5.
  • This arrangement 2 is practical but not at all critical, especially as the location of the device influences the changes made to the timbre: generally, the more the device is placed upstream the more we play on the high harmonics; the layout of the device therefore takes into account a choice of tones preferred by the instrument factor.
  • the device 6, detailed in FIG. 2, comprises a piston 7 provided with a seal 8, sliding in a hollow body 9 arranged laterally with respect to the column of air and opening into it.
  • the piston can be installed perpendicular to the axis of the air column as shown, or more or less oblique with respect thereto.
  • the piston 7 slides in a body 9 and is made integral with a threaded sleeve 10 screwed onto a threaded support 11 from the start of the roof 5, coaxial with the body 9.
  • a knurled flange 12 makes it possible to rotate the sleeve 10 and to move the piston 7 in the body 9.
  • the respective dimensions of the various elements of the assembly can be provided for that not only can the piston 7 slide and withdraw inside the body 9, thereby increasing the volume of the air column section affected by the disturbance device, but so that the end 13 of the piston can protrude inside section S of the air column in question and reduce the volume.
  • a graduation 14 of the "Palmer” type allows easy identification of the setting corresponding to a chosen timbre.
  • the device of the invention works for very small displacements. For example, if the thread pitch is 0.5 mm and the vernier comprises 10 divisions, each division corresponds to a variation in stroke of the piston of 0.05 mm. As it is easy to divide by eye each of the divisions of the vernier in ten, we can locate displacements of 0.005mm
  • a rotation of the vernier on the order of the thickness of the line of the graduation is clearly perceptible to the ear both in the field of timbre and that of the ease of emission (adaptation of the impedance of the bucco-respiratory system of the musician with the impedance of the instrument and the impedance of the room).
  • the artist will be able to choose among the different stamps at his disposal that which allows him to obtain an ease of emission, a precision of the detached optimum sound performance, while reconciling this timbre with the style of the music played and the style of interpretation chosen by the conductor, in the case of an orchestra.
  • FIG. 3 shows a variant in which the device is implanted at a location in the mouth branch independent of the plug-roof spacer, and where the rotating sleeve 10 integral with the piston 7 forms with it an adjustment knob in the form of a cap.
  • the body 9 can be fixed to the mouth branch 3 by means of a welded flange 15.
  • the performer can easily modify the timbre of the instrument during the game itself.
  • a particular advantage of the system of the invention is that it adapts particularly well to all wind instruments, even other than the trumpet. It only requires the production of a lateral bore, at a location the choice of which results from a compromise between the desired acoustic effect and the ease of assembly.
  • the preferred installation of the device of the invention is done in zone a of the spout 16, or b of the jar 17 on which the spout 16 is fitted via the cork 18; these zones being those where the access to the vibrating air column is the simplest (a single wall, however sufficiently resistant and cleared, to cross).
  • the device of the invention is implanted in the zone e of the body of the oboe 21 downstream of the socket 22 of the reed, or on the jar for double reed instruments that have one.

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EP83400116A 1982-01-22 1983-01-18 Blasinstrument mit regulierbarer Klangfarbe Expired EP0085001B1 (de)

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AT83400116T ATE26500T1 (de) 1982-01-22 1983-01-18 Blasinstrument mit regulierbarer klangfarbe.

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FR8201023A FR2520538A1 (fr) 1982-01-22 1982-01-22 Instrument a vent a timbre reglable
FR8201023 1982-01-22

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FR2587529A1 (fr) * 1985-09-19 1987-03-20 Commissariat Energie Atomique Dispositif d'obtention de quarts de ton et autres micro-intervalles sur des instruments de musique a vent a trous lateraux
FR2711267A1 (fr) * 1993-10-11 1995-04-21 Buffet Crampon Sa Instrument de musique à vent à cavité de résonance.
FR2753826A1 (fr) * 1996-09-26 1998-03-27 France Telecom Dispositif pour instrument a vent permettant de creer des effets speciaux en temps reel

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US1802791A (en) * 1930-01-31 1931-04-28 Murray A Stover Automatic pitch control for horns
US3800651A (en) * 1973-03-26 1974-04-02 T Small Transposing device for musical instruments

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FR2587529A1 (fr) * 1985-09-19 1987-03-20 Commissariat Energie Atomique Dispositif d'obtention de quarts de ton et autres micro-intervalles sur des instruments de musique a vent a trous lateraux
EP0219389A1 (de) * 1985-09-19 1987-04-22 Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (Cnrs) Gerät zum Erreichen von Vierteltönen und anderer Mikrointervalle auf Blasinstrumenten mit seitlichen Löchern
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FR2711267A1 (fr) * 1993-10-11 1995-04-21 Buffet Crampon Sa Instrument de musique à vent à cavité de résonance.
FR2753826A1 (fr) * 1996-09-26 1998-03-27 France Telecom Dispositif pour instrument a vent permettant de creer des effets speciaux en temps reel

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FR2520538B1 (de) 1984-11-02
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DE3370889D1 (en) 1987-05-14
ATE26500T1 (de) 1987-04-15
FR2520538A1 (fr) 1983-07-29
US4515060A (en) 1985-05-07

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