EP0085001B1 - Instrument à vent à timbre réglable - Google Patents

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EP0085001B1
EP0085001B1 EP83400116A EP83400116A EP0085001B1 EP 0085001 B1 EP0085001 B1 EP 0085001B1 EP 83400116 A EP83400116 A EP 83400116A EP 83400116 A EP83400116 A EP 83400116A EP 0085001 B1 EP0085001 B1 EP 0085001B1
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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.
  • Document US-A-1 604 969 thus discloses a device for lateral disturbance of the air column of a clarinet, comprising a valve which opens or closes the access of air to a membrane which constitutes it. only an annexed musical instrument whose sounds are superimposed on those of the clarinet.
  • a lateral disturbance device comprising a piston sliding in a hollow body communicating with the air column, intended to modify the height of one or more notes of a wind instrument, without altering either the volume or the timbre.
  • Document DE-C-59 465 also discloses a lateral disturbance device for flute implanted not on the air column where the standing waves develop, but in the disturbance zone located between the mouthpiece (speed belly ) and the first pressure belly, an area still belonging to the wave generator.
  • This device is intended by adjusting cork stoppers, to adjust the height of the sound of the flute.
  • the disturbance device is a device for lateral disturbance of said column of air along which extend from standing waves
  • the hollow body is arranged in a place located on a generator of the pipe for developing said waves but outside and downstream of the disturbance zone determined by the wave generating device, the hollow body opens transversely and directly on the air column, the end of the piston in its movement can even encroach on the air column.
  • 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 "Palmer” type.
  • the Applicant has found that the invention allows easy stamp regulation, even during play, and the richness of the stamps thus obtained is very great.
  • the richness of sound is all the greater since the installation of the disturbing device can be done practically anywhere along the length of the air column of the instrument with, each time, a different result.
  • the system can, by this means affect all or part of the range of the instrument.
  • 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.
  • the device 6 for the lateral disturbance of the air column is installed, in this embodiment, at the level of the spacer existing on most of the trumpets for connecting the plug 2 at the start of the horn 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: in general, the more we place the device 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 so that not only the piston 7 can slide and withdraw inside the body 9, thus increasing the volume of the column section of air affected by the disturbance device, but so that the end 13 of the piston can protrude inside the section S of the air column in question and reduce its 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 has 10 divisions, each division corresponds to a variation of the piston stroke 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 timbres at his disposal that which allows him to obtain an ease of emission, a precision of the detached and an optimal sound yield, while reconciling this timbre with the style of the music played and the style. the 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 ball valve spacer, and where the rotating sleeve 10 secured to 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 oboe body 21 downstream of the socket 22 of the reed, or on the jar for double reed instruments that have one.
  • the sound spectrum emitted by a clarinet playing a re was recorded by means of a spectrograph and a plotter. 4 (590 Hz), in three positions of the piston of the interference device. The results of these recordings are plotted on the graph of FIG. 4 graduated in KHz on the abscissa and dB on the ordinate.
  • a solid black circle relates to a result obtained for the piston in the withdrawn position of 1 mm
  • a cross corresponds to a neutral position
  • a empty round at an exit position of 1 mm inside the bore.

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

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