EP0678852A1 - Instrument de musique électrique à cordes - Google Patents

Instrument de musique électrique à cordes Download PDF

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EP0678852A1
EP0678852A1 EP95830036A EP95830036A EP0678852A1 EP 0678852 A1 EP0678852 A1 EP 0678852A1 EP 95830036 A EP95830036 A EP 95830036A EP 95830036 A EP95830036 A EP 95830036A EP 0678852 A1 EP0678852 A1 EP 0678852A1
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Michele Notari
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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
    • 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
    • G10H3/181—Details of pick-up assemblies

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  • the invention relates to an electrical stringed musical instrument.
  • pick-ups In electrical stringed instruments, especially guitars and bass guitars, the use of pick-ups is well known; they are usually mounted on the body of the instrument at a predetermined position with respect to the strings mounted on the instrument.
  • the main aim of the present invention is to obviate the abovementioned drawbacks and limits in the prior art, by providing an electric stringed instrument which is constructionally simple and which can be used by a musician to obtain various types of sound without having to change instrument or perform complex and time-consuming operations on the processing circuits elaborating the electric signal provided by the pick ups.
  • An advantage of the invention is that the musician does not have to change instrument in order to modify timbre; so that he or she can carry on using a favourite and well-suited instrument.
  • a further advantage is that various pick-ups can rapidly be tried out on a same instrument, so that differences between pick-up response and performance can be tested accurately in an identical context.
  • the device of the invention comprises at least one guide, to which a slide is coupled, said slide bearing at least one guitar pick-up; at an end of the slide destined to strike against a body of the instrument is located a plug which is couplable with a multicore socket fixed to the body of the instrument and electrically connected to a jack socket.
  • an electric guitar 1 provided with a body 2 has mounted thereon a bridge 10 to support strings 3, which strings are tensioned at a predetermined distance from the body 2.
  • a usual-type pick-up 4 also located on the body 2 of the guitar 1, generates electrical signals corresponding to the sounds generated by the strings 3. Said electrical signals are sent to a jack socket 11, predisposed on the body 2, by which they are sent on to, for example, an external amplifier.
  • the pick-up 4 is mounted on a slide 5 which is slidable in a straight direction on guides 6 mounted in the body 2.
  • the preferred embodiment illustrated in the figures exhibits two slides, each bearing a pick-up.
  • the guides 6 are arranged on a parallel plane to the strings 3, and more precisely on lateral walls of a recess 7 cut into the body 2.
  • a plug 9 is mounted on the slide 5, which plug 9 is predisposed to mate with the multicore socket 8 and which plug 9 is electrically connected to the pick-up on the slide 5.
  • the recess 7 is laterally defined by walls which extend at one end up to an edge of the body 2, giving rise to an aperture into and out of which a slide 5 can be fully inserted or removed.
  • the slide 5 can run on the guides 6 from a first, endrun position in which the pick-up 4 is positioned between the body 2 and the strings 3 and wherein the plug 9 is coupled in the socket 8, and a second position, in which the slide 5 is fully extracted from the guides 6.
  • the pick-up 4 In the first position the pick-up 4 is correctly situated for playing; that is, the magnets of the pick-up 4 are situated each below a string 3.
  • the slide 5 superiorly exhibits a block 12 shaped such as to complete an original external configuration of the body 2 by filling in the recess 7.
  • a plurality of sound processing circuits 1, of known type can be provided, each of which is electrically connected to a predetermined connection point on the multicore socket 8.
  • An electric commutator 13 connects on command an output of one of said sound processing circuits 14 to the multicore socket 8.
  • Adjustment circuits of, for example, volume can be provided among said sound processing circuits 14, as is normal in musical instruments of this type. It is also possible to send a signal generated by the pick-up 4 directly to the jack socket 11; the signal will then be adjusted by means of the amplifier controls.
  • Mechanical means for adjustment (of known type and not illustrated in the figures) are also provided, which modify a distance between the guides 6 and the strings 3, so that a best distance between said guides 6 and said strings 3 can be found; known systems are also provided for adjusting a height of the pick-up 4 with respect to the strings 3.
  • a further rapid adjustment of the instrument characteristics can be made by simply adjusting the commutator 13 and thus connecting the pick-up and the jack 11 through the desired circuit 14.
  • the invention enables several different types of pick-up to be tested out on a single instrument, simply by substituting the pick-ups 4.

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EP95830036A 1994-04-19 1995-02-14 Instrument de musique électrique à cordes Withdrawn EP0678852A1 (fr)

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ITMO940059A IT1269679B (it) 1994-04-19 1994-04-19 Strumento musicale elettrico a corde.
ITMO940059 1994-04-19

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Cited By (4)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2324402A (en) * 1997-04-15 1998-10-21 John Patrick Pipkin A pick-up assembly
US8283552B2 (en) 2006-12-19 2012-10-09 GDK Corporation Docking system for pickups on electric guitars
US8575466B2 (en) 2006-12-19 2013-11-05 Gordon Van Ekstrom Ball plunger-style connector assembly for electrical connections
CN110120215A (zh) * 2019-06-06 2019-08-13 收服比卡超(广州)咨询服务有限公司 音频处理方法、装置及系统

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GB2045993A (en) * 1979-04-04 1980-11-05 Staccato Research & Dev Improvements in Stringed Musical instruments
US4433603A (en) * 1980-05-05 1984-02-28 Roger Siminoff Component musical instrument
FR2609826A1 (fr) * 1987-01-15 1988-07-22 Gaucher Dany Dispositif permettant l'interchangeabilite de micros, de plaques d'electroniques et de touches, d'une guitare
FR2638882A1 (fr) * 1988-11-04 1990-05-11 Gaucher Dany Guitare. micros, plaques d'electroniques et touches interchangeables
FR2664415A2 (fr) * 1987-06-12 1992-01-10 Betticare Olivier Micro interchangeable pour guitare electrique.

Patent Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2045993A (en) * 1979-04-04 1980-11-05 Staccato Research & Dev Improvements in Stringed Musical instruments
US4433603A (en) * 1980-05-05 1984-02-28 Roger Siminoff Component musical instrument
FR2609826A1 (fr) * 1987-01-15 1988-07-22 Gaucher Dany Dispositif permettant l'interchangeabilite de micros, de plaques d'electroniques et de touches, d'une guitare
FR2664415A2 (fr) * 1987-06-12 1992-01-10 Betticare Olivier Micro interchangeable pour guitare electrique.
FR2638882A1 (fr) * 1988-11-04 1990-05-11 Gaucher Dany Guitare. micros, plaques d'electroniques et touches interchangeables

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2324402A (en) * 1997-04-15 1998-10-21 John Patrick Pipkin A pick-up assembly
US8283552B2 (en) 2006-12-19 2012-10-09 GDK Corporation Docking system for pickups on electric guitars
US8575466B2 (en) 2006-12-19 2013-11-05 Gordon Van Ekstrom Ball plunger-style connector assembly for electrical connections
CN110120215A (zh) * 2019-06-06 2019-08-13 收服比卡超(广州)咨询服务有限公司 音频处理方法、装置及系统

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