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EP0138231B1
EP0138231B1 EP84112529A EP84112529A EP0138231B1 EP 0138231 B1 EP0138231 B1 EP 0138231B1 EP 84112529 A EP84112529 A EP 84112529A EP 84112529 A EP84112529 A EP 84112529A EP 0138231 B1 EP0138231 B1 EP 0138231B1
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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
    • G10D7/00—General design of wind musical instruments
    • G10D7/02—General design of wind musical instruments of the type wherein an air current is directed against a ramp edge
    • G10D7/03—General design of wind musical instruments of the type wherein an air current is directed against a ramp edge with a windway for leading the air to the labium, e.g. recorders
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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
    • G10D9/00—Details of, or accessories for, wind musical instruments
    • G10D9/04—Valves; Valve controls
    • G10D9/047—Valves; Valve controls for wood wind instruments

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  • the invention relates to a flute according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the recorder has remained a relatively simple instrument to this day, which is suitable for playing simple pieces even by beginners, but is unsuitable for high-quality music making and is therefore hardly used at all in orchestras.
  • Boehm flutes German silver existing flutes
  • the valve system is designed so that it places considerable demands on the musician.
  • the sound generation is not easy, so that this instrument is reserved only for outspoken specialists. Attaching a recorder mouthpiece to such a Boehm flute (DE-OS 31 06 403) increases the difficulty of playing such an instrument, because the grip system of the Boehm flute is not designed for a flute-like flute.
  • GB-A-20 93 251 shows a flute with a recorder-like mouthpiece, whereby the position of the flute is to be adapted to that of a recorder.
  • the aim of the invention is to create a flute with the tone and sound of a recorder, but which is equipped with an easy-to-play, logically constructed grip system, whereby semitones and the high and highest tones are blown precisely and with perfect response should be able to.
  • a recorder can be played like a saxophone.
  • the saxophone grip system (DE-AS 23 28 852) is particularly logical and therefore relatively easy to play because the successive basic notes can be played in succession with the successive fingers of the hands - starting from the right little finger to the left index finger. Nonetheless, the flute according to the invention does not have the problem of sound generation by means of a wooden sheet relevant to the saxophone, which requires a special learning process only for blowing a clean tone.
  • the particular advantage of the flute according to the invention is that, for example, a saxophonist can play the new flute immediately, while, for example, he has to learn to play with a flute with difficulty; a normal recorder as a second instrument to a saxophone would not be considered in an orchestra. Conversely, a person who has learned to play the flute according to the invention can also learn to play a saxophone with ease because the grip system largely coincides and only the other type of tone generation still has to be learned.
  • the instrument is not only suitable for orchestral musicians, but also for beginners, because they have no difficulty with the new flute when it comes to sound generation and the operation of the grip system can be quickly learned.
  • the invention thus creates an optimally playable flute with an exact response to all tones and including the semitones, so that the recorder not only becomes suitable as an orchestral instrument, but is also particularly easy to play.
  • the flute according to the invention can be produced analogously to a recorder in different sizes and toni z. B. in the manner of a C soprano flute, an F alto flute, a C tenor flute or the F bass flute. Vocal parts in Eb or B can also be used as a basis.
  • the flute according to the invention has a tubular body 16 which is open at both ends and onto which a neck 17 with a mouthpiece 18 is attached.
  • the body 16 and the neck 17 with the mouthpiece 18 are shaped and dimensioned in the manner of a recorder.
  • the mouthpiece 18 has the labium 95 typical of a recorder.
  • the body 16 has a C key 34, a Dis key 41, a D key 38, an E key 44, an F key 46, a G key 15, an A key 22, starting from the bottom and an H key 24 on the front, an octave key 12 on the back.
  • These keys which can be operated by the little finger, the ring finger, the middle finger, the index finger of the right hand and the ring finger, the middle finger, the index finger or the thumb of the left hand, are arranged spatially like a saxophone.
  • the keys mentioned are rotatably supported by means of swivel shafts 36, 39, 120, 72, 113, 114, 123 and 20 in bearing blocks 103, 124 fastened to the body 16.
  • a thumb rest 102 arranged in the area of the F key 46 on the back of the instrument serves to grip the right thumb and facilitates the holding of the instrument in a similar way to the case with a saxophone.
  • the D key 38, the E key 44, the G key 15 and the A key 22 are ring keys which have a D tone hole 43, an E tone hole 45, a G tone hole 50 and surround an A-tone hole 51 such that the fingertips can close the tone hole in question when the ring buttons in question are depressed.
  • buttons 34, 41, 38, 44, 46, 15, 22, 24 are biased into the open position by spring force.
  • the springs are not shown for the sake of clarity.
  • the octave flap 12 surrounds a support projection 11 for the left thumb attached to the rear of the body 16 in the manner of a crescent moon.
  • the octave key 12 acts on a rocker lever 53 two octave keys 13, 14 arranged one above the other at a distance, of which the octave key 13 is arranged on the left side of the body 16 and the upper octave key 14, which is designed as a double key, is arranged on the left side of the neck 17.
  • the neck 17 forms a piece with the mouthpiece 18.
  • the octave key 12 is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to a shaft 20 which is inserted into a sleeve 104 forming a structural unit with the key 12 and is clamped and adjusted by means of a clamping screw 105.
  • the shaft 20 extends through a longitudinally extending hollow shaft 63 to a lever 21 which branches off from a rotating sleeve 106.
  • the other end of the shaft 20 is inserted into this rotating sleeve 106 and can be connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the lever 21 by means of a clamping screw 107.
  • the shaft 20 is rotatably supported at its ends in bearing blocks 108, 109.
  • the hollow shaft 63 is freely rotatable on the shaft 20 passing through it and is not biased by any spring.
  • a rocker arm 53 is rotatably supported on a substantially right-angled extension 136 of the octave key 12 by means of a transverse pivot axis 58, namely about an axis which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the body 16 and tangential to its left side.
  • One lever arm 56 of the rocker arm 53 engages in a recess 135 of an extension 57 on the lower octave flap 13.
  • the octave flap 13 is fixedly connected to the hollow shaft 63 via a lever 112.
  • Further levers 59, 60 also branch off at right angles from the hollow shaft 63 and engage under the pivot shaft 113 of the G key 15 or the pivot shaft 114 of the A key 22, non-rotatably connected G or A octave levers 54 or 55.
  • the levers 54, 55 extend approximately at a right angle to the G key 15 and the A key 22.
  • the upper lever arm 61 of the rocker arm 53 engages under a projection 62 on a lever 100 which branches at right angles from a shaft 98 running in the longitudinal direction for the two upper octave keys 14 which are arranged on the shaft 98 in a rotationally fixed manner by means of a lever 101.
  • the shaft 98 is rotatably supported in the end position 99.
  • the shaft 98 like the bearing blocks 99, is hollow so that a bearing rod 117 can be passed through for the purpose of pivoting the shaft 98 and can be fastened between the bearing blocks 99 by means of a screw connection.
  • the octave key 12 presses on the rocker arm 53 at the right end in FIG. 4 of the body 16 and at the left end via the recess 135 the octave flap 13.
  • the upper octave double flap 14 rests in the closed position due to the pressure of the spring 115, the connecting projection 62 being located just above the right lever arm of the rocker arm 53.
  • the two octave keys 13, 14 thus remain closed in the lower octave, ie when the octave key 12 is not pressed.
  • the tones of the next octave are now heard by pressing the octave key 12. All fingers may now bring the assigned keys into the closed position, the G and A octave levers being raised and thus free of the levers 59, 60, i. H. relieve them.
  • the octave flap 13 now springs open because the rocker arm 53 remains pressed down at its right ends in FIG. 4 by the force of the spring 115.
  • the pressure of the octave key 12 has an effect on the octave key 13 via the rocker arm 15, since it floats without spring pressure, while the double key 14 exerts pressure on the rocker arm 53 by its spring force.
  • the lever 21 (see also FIG. 4) attached to the sleeve 106 which can be pivoted by the octave key 12 is to a side on the left side of the body 16 between the G and A keys 15 and 22 arranged additional flap 19 out.
  • the lever 21 engages over the additional flap 19 and is provided at its end with an adjusting screw 118 with which the desired distance between the lever 21 and the additional flap 19 can be established.
  • the additional flap 19 is attached to the lever arm 23a of a rocker arm 23, the other lever arm 23b engages one of the pivoting shaft 123 of the H key 24 at an angle of approximately 90 ° to this branching lever 25 such that when the H key 24 is pressed, the additional flap 19 is inevitably closed against the opening spring force.
  • the rocker arm 23 is articulated by means of a transverse shaft 26 which is arranged on the left side of the body 16 perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and tangentially to the body 16.
  • the transverse shaft 26 is rotatably mounted in bearing blocks 27a, 27b by means of a bolt passing through it.
  • the octave key 12 is thus connected to the additional flap 19 in such a way that when the octave key 12 is pressed and the H key 24 is not pressed, the additional flap 19 spring-loaded in the opening direction is released, and when the octave key 12 or the H key 24 is not pressed it is closed.
  • An adjustment screw 119 is located in the upper end of the lever arm 23b.
  • the flute shown in the drawing has a first auxiliary flap 40 (FIG. 2), described below, a second auxiliary flap 68 (FIG. 3), also explained below, and a third auxiliary flap 64 which is subsequently explained.
  • the third auxiliary flap 64 which is biased by spring force into the open position, is provided on the left side of the body 16 at the level of the F-flap 47, which via a rocker arm 66 extends around a shaft 65 transverse to the longitudinal direction of the body 16 and tangential to the body 16 is pivotable.
  • the lever arm 66b of the rocker arm 66 facing away from the third auxiliary flap 64 is underneath by a lever 67 connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the G key 15, so that the third auxiliary flap 64 is pressed into the closed position when the G key is pressed.
  • the tones above G are stabilized due to the opening of the auxiliary flap 64.
  • Gis-Cis key 28 Beneath the G key 22 is a combined Gis-Cis key 28 arranged laterally in the area of the left little finger, which is more resiliently biased in the opening direction, via its swivel shaft 127 and a lever 29 that extends an extension 125 of the holding lever 126 of the Gis Flap 30 engages under the Gis flap 30 which is weakly spring-loaded in the opening direction so that the latter is released while the Gis-Cis key 28 is pressed and the F key 46 is open, otherwise it is kept closed.
  • the pivot shaft 127 is hollow and receives a shaft 31 in a rotationally fixed manner, which extends through hollow shafts 39, 120 to a pivot shaft 131, from which branches a lever 32 which resiliently prestresses one from a pivot shaft 121 in the opposite direction to that in the closing direction , below the C-flap 35 arranged Cis-flap 33 extending lever arm 133 and acts on the Cis-flap 33 so that it is opened while pressing the Gis-Cis key 28 against the spring force.
  • the C key 34 connected to the C flap 35 acts via a shaft 36 and a lever 37 spanning the lever arm 133 of the cis flap 33 so that the latter opens against the closing spring force when the C flap 35 is opened by a correspondingly strong spring , but is closed when the C key 34 is pressed.
  • the D key 38 is connected to the first auxiliary flap 40, which is at the same height as the Dis flap 42 acted upon by the Dis key 41 and biased in the closing direction and is opened and closed synchronously with the D flap 43.
  • the dis flap 42 is on the left side of the body 16, the first auxiliary flap 40 on the front.
  • the rotationally fixed connection between the D key 38 and the first auxiliary flap 40 is established by a hollow shaft 39 running in the longitudinal direction of the body 16.
  • the shaft 31 extending between the G sharp key 28 and the lever 32 is partially passed through this hollow shaft 39 and a further hollow shaft 120 which pivots the E key 44 carries bar.
  • the second auxiliary flap 68 which is biased by spring force into the open position, is arranged on a rocker arm 69 about a shaft 70 running perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the body 16 and tangential to it, laterally on the right side.
  • the lever arm 69b facing away from the auxiliary flap 68 is gripped by a lever 71 which is non-rotatably connected to a longitudinal shaft 72, which in turn is in rotary connection with the F key 46.
  • the high E key 87 located at the level of the right index finger additionally closes the F sharp flap 48 arranged above the F key 46 and covering a tone hole (not shown) such that the F sharp flap 48 is also closed when the E key 87 is pressed.
  • an extension 97 of the Fis flap 48 is overlapped by a lever 88 of the high E key 87.
  • the Fis flap 48 is further connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the pivot shaft 120 of the E key 44 via a lever 128. It is in turn overlapped by an extension 129 of the F key 46.
  • the approach 97 is not only used to close the Fis flap 46 via the E key 44.
  • the approach 97 also overlaps the Gis flap 30 and thus presses the Gis flap 30 while the E key 44 and / or F key is pressed 46 always in the closed position.
  • the approach 97 thus fulfills two functions.
  • the high E key 87 is further connected via the lever 88, a pivot shaft 96, a connecting rod 89 with an intermediate rotary bearing 90 and a lever 92 mounted in a bearing 91 to the high E flap 93 arranged at the top of the body 16 on the right side (Fig. 3).
  • the B-tone hole covered by the B-flap 49 is arranged between the G-tone hole 50 and the A-tone hole 51.
  • the B flap 49 is connected via a lever 76, a longitudinally extending rotary shaft 75 and an actuating lever 74 to the B key 73 arranged on the right side of the body 16 approximately at the level of the G sharp key 28.
  • the high D key 77 actuated with the left index finger is located above and somewhat to the side of the H key 24. It is via a D lever 78, a shaft 79 and a lever 80 extending perpendicularly thereto with the lever on the side of the body 16 connected at the level of the A-tone hole 51 high D-flap 81.
  • the high Es key 82 which can be actuated with the left index finger, lies to the right of the high D key 77 and is connected to the high Es flap 86 via an Es lever 83, a longitudinal shaft 84 and a transverse lever 85, which is on the right side of the body 16 is arranged above the high D flap.
  • a lug 94 extends from the high Es flap 86 over the high E flap 93, so that when the E button 87 is pressed, the Es flap 86 also opens.
  • the pivoting hollow shafts 121 of the cis flap 33; 131, 31 and 127 of the C sharp key 28; 39 of the D key 38; 120 of the E key 44; 122 of the G sharp flap 30; 113 of the G key 15; 114 of the A key 22 and 123 of the H key 24 are coaxially mounted on the left on the front side of the body 16 and extend longitudinally in bearing blocks 124 by means of solid material shafts (e.g. 31) passing through them.
  • Each of the flaps mentioned in this description is assigned a tone hole (not shown) in the body 16 or the neck 17, which it covers, even if this is not expressly mentioned.
  • Adjustment screws 130 and 132 are also located on the extension 129 and the ends of the extension 97 and the lever arms 66b, 69b.
  • buttons for D38, E44, G15, A22 can also be replaced by full flaps (flap covers with cushions).
  • the invention thus creates a flute with the mouthpiece, shape and dimensions of a recorder, but which is provided with a flap mechanism similar to that of the saxophone, but the keys, flaps and tone holes are adapted to the special features of the sound production of a recorder.

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