EP0475983B1 - Vorrichtung zur elektroakustischen verstärkung eines streichinstrumentes mit einem saitenhalterknopf - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zur elektroakustischen verstärkung eines streichinstrumentes mit einem saitenhalterknopf Download PDF

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EP0475983B1
EP0475983B1 EP90908515A EP90908515A EP0475983B1 EP 0475983 B1 EP0475983 B1 EP 0475983B1 EP 90908515 A EP90908515 A EP 90908515A EP 90908515 A EP90908515 A EP 90908515A EP 0475983 B1 EP0475983 B1 EP 0475983B1
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Klaus Winkler
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H1/00—Details of electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H1/32—Constructional details
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G10D1/00—General design of stringed musical instruments
    • G10D1/02—Bowed or rubbed string instruments, e.g. violins or hurdy-gurdies
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G10D3/00—Details of, or accessories for, stringed musical instruments, e.g. slide-bars
    • G10D3/12—Anchoring devices for strings, e.g. tail pieces or hitchpins
    • G10D3/13—Tail pieces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H3/00—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means
    • G10H3/12—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument
    • G10H3/14—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument using mechanically actuated vibrators with pick-up means
    • G10H3/146—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument using mechanically actuated vibrators with pick-up means using a membrane, e.g. a drum; Pick-up means for vibrating surfaces, e.g. housing of an instrument
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H3/00—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means
    • G10H3/12—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument
    • G10H3/14—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument using mechanically actuated vibrators with pick-up means
    • G10H3/18—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument using mechanically actuated vibrators with pick-up means using a string, e.g. electric guitar
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R1/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R1/46—Special adaptations for use as contact microphones, e.g. on musical instrument, on stethoscope

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  • the invention relates to a device for electroacoustic amplification of a string instrument with a tailpiece button and with a pickup device attached to the string instrument via a holder, which pickup device can be connected to an amplifier via leads guided through the hollow tailpiece button.
  • a device avoiding the disadvantages mentioned above is known from DE-PS 966 106.
  • a hollow tailpiece button for a string instrument is described there, through which leads are led to a pickup device. Where this pickup device is located in or on the string instrument.
  • This publication does not mention what means are needed to fix it there. But the question of the bracket is a problem that should be solved optimally so as not to disturb the sound of the string instrument.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object to develop the known device so that the pickup device can be attached to a string instrument in an extremely simple manner. Another object is to provide a device that can be removed from the stringed instrument in just a few simple steps.
  • the pickup device is a microphone and that this microphone is arranged in the interior of the body of the stringed instrument and is held by the hollow tailpiece button.
  • the invention takes particular advantage of the fact that a string holder button is present in any case with stringed instruments.
  • This tailpiece button is used for string instruments to attach the tailpiece string.
  • the invention proposes to replace this custom tailpiece button with a hollow tailpiece button, which at the same time serves as a holder for a microphone to be inserted into the body of the string instrument.
  • the microphone located in the hollow tailpiece button can be removed at any time and the remaining cavity can be replaced with a blind plug, for example.
  • the invention is explained in more detail below using an exemplary embodiment in connection with three figures for use in a violin.
  • the invention is not limited to violins. Rather, the invention can be used with any kind of stringed instruments that have a tailpiece button anyway. In a cello, for example, this is a support spike.
  • FIG. 1 shows a first exemplary embodiment of a device according to the invention in a plan view of the body 10 of a violin which is open at the top.
  • the tailpiece button that already exists with every violin is now replaced by a holder, which is designed as a hollow tailpiece button 1.
  • This inner part of the tailpiece button, which tapers conically in this example, sits in the shaft of the block 4 common to the violin.
  • a microphone 3 is held by the hollow tailpiece button 1, preferably via a flexible suspension 2.
  • the microphone 3 is arranged in the interior of the body of the violin 11.
  • a detachable connection is preferably provided at the end of the hollow tailpiece button 1 opposite the microphone 3, via which leads 16 to the amplifier can be connected to the microphone.
  • the detachable connection is formed as a plug 5 and socket 6, which is formed on one end of the supply lines 16 and is seated on the end of the hollow tailpiece button 1 opposite the microphone 3.
  • the plug 5 and the socket 6 preferably have a bayonet lock.
  • FIG. 1 shows the side view of FIG. 1 of the device according to the invention.
  • the already known reference symbols will continue to be used for identical parts.
  • the hollow tailpiece button 1 according to the invention has the dimensions of the already usual tailpiece button in the violin, it is easily possible to attach the tailpiece string 7 coming from the tailpiece 8 to the hollow tailpiece button 1.
  • the hollow tailpiece button 1 like the tailpiece button which is customary in any case, has an annular recess 17, around which the string holder strand 7 is guided for fastening.
  • the hollow tailpiece button 1 is clamped in the shaft of the block 4.
  • FIG. 3 shows a particularly preferred embodiment of the hollow tailpiece button 1.
  • This hollow tailpiece button 1 now also has the dimensions of a tailpiece button already present in the violin.
  • the hollow tailpiece button 1 now has a cylindrical opening with an internal thread, into which the blind plug 12 shown in FIG. 3b or the microphone plug 14 shown in FIG. 3c together with the microphone 3 can be screwed.
  • the blind plug 12 is suitable for being screwed into the hollow tailpiece button 1.
  • To the blind plug 12 has an external thread 15. This blind plug 12 is then screwed into the hollow tailpiece button 1 if no electroacoustic amplification of the violin is to be carried out.
  • FIG. 3c shows the microphone 3 already described, which is now fastened in a microphone plug 14.
  • the microphone plug 14 is similar to the blind plug 12 and also has an external thread 15.
  • the microphone 3 can be connected to an electrical amplifier via a feed line 16.
  • the feed line 16 leads through an opening 18 through the microphone plug 14 to the microphone 3. If the tones of the violin are to be amplified electro-acoustically, this microphone plug 14 together with the microphone 3 is screwed into the hollow tailpiece button 1. The microphone 3 is thus inside the body of the string instrument.
  • the hollow tailpiece button 1, the blind plug 12 and the microphone plug 14 are preferably formed from aluminum and in particular black anodized.
  • the blind plug 12 and the microphone plug 14 shown in FIG. 3 it is possible to install the hollow tailpiece button 1 once in the string instrument. This hollow tailpiece button 1 can then remain in the string instrument forever.
  • the microphone 3 is held by a microphone plug 14 which is the same as the blind plug 12.
  • the lead 16 to the electrical amplifier only remains as a difference to the already usual tailpiece buttons in string instruments.
  • the opening in the hollow tailpiece button 1 can then be closed above the blind plug 12 if no reinforcement is desired, so that this new hollow tailpiece button is 1 does not differ from a conventional tailpiece button.
  • each string instrument only has to be converted once, the installation and removal of the microphone 3 can be carried out very quickly and uses different microphone types at any time can be.
  • the microphone plug 14 it is of course also possible to use a microphone which can even be held in the hollow tailpiece button 1.
  • the microphone itself is expediently provided with an external thread and black anodized.
  • a clamp connection can also be provided.
  • the microphone is held 3-10 mm, preferably 5 mm, from the end of the hollow tailpiece button.
  • a transmitter unit for wireless transmission can also be used as an amplifier.
  • This system is generally applicable to all string instruments that are equipped with a tailpiece knob or can be equipped with one.
EP90908515A 1989-06-01 1990-06-01 Vorrichtung zur elektroakustischen verstärkung eines streichinstrumentes mit einem saitenhalterknopf Expired - Lifetime EP0475983B1 (de)

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DE3917912A DE3917912C1 (en) 1989-06-01 1989-06-01 String instrument with electroacoustic amplification - has microphone installed inside body of violin or viola by flexible suspension
DE3917912 1989-06-01
DE3920865A DE3920865A1 (de) 1989-06-01 1989-06-26 Hohler saitenhalterknopf fuer die aufnahme eines mikrofons zur elektroakustischen verstaerkung von streichinstrumenten
DE3920865 1989-06-26

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CA (1) CA2058449A1 (ja)
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