EP0784309A1 - Instrument a percussion - Google Patents

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EP0784309A1
EP0784309A1 EP96927958A EP96927958A EP0784309A1 EP 0784309 A1 EP0784309 A1 EP 0784309A1 EP 96927958 A EP96927958 A EP 96927958A EP 96927958 A EP96927958 A EP 96927958A EP 0784309 A1 EP0784309 A1 EP 0784309A1
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striker
arm
bell body
muffle
turntable
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Vladimir Ivanovich Pavlenko
Victor Semionovich Egorkin
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YALESTOWN Corp NV
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10K—SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10K1/00—Devices in which sound is produced by striking a resonating body, e.g. bells, chimes or gongs
    • G10K1/06—Devices in which sound is produced by striking a resonating body, e.g. bells, chimes or gongs the resonating devices having the shape of a bell, plate, rod, or tube
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10K—SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10K1/00—Devices in which sound is produced by striking a resonating body, e.g. bells, chimes or gongs
    • G10K1/06—Devices in which sound is produced by striking a resonating body, e.g. bells, chimes or gongs the resonating devices having the shape of a bell, plate, rod, or tube
    • G10K1/062—Devices in which sound is produced by striking a resonating body, e.g. bells, chimes or gongs the resonating devices having the shape of a bell, plate, rod, or tube electrically operated
    • G10K1/063—Devices in which sound is produced by striking a resonating body, e.g. bells, chimes or gongs the resonating devices having the shape of a bell, plate, rod, or tube electrically operated the sounding member being a bell
    • G10K1/064—Operating or striking mechanisms therefor

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  • the present invention relates to acoustics and may be used for sound generation by percussion instruments such as bell sound both on bell towers and in orchestras.
  • a sound generating device disclosed in US Patent 5150097 is known and comprises a sound generating element in the form of a bell body, a swinging-type striker secured within the said body, a driver, provided with an arm, displacing the said striker, and a striker displacing drive operated through a transducer by pressure element.
  • the closest analogue of the present invention is a percussion instrument comprising a sound generating element in the form of a bell body, a swinging-type striker, secured within the said body, a drive, provided with an arm, displacing the said striker, and a base ( Germany Patent 1022939).
  • the above-mentioned device is not capable to perform a wide spectrum of melodies, in a number of cases a quality of the melody sounding is not high because the possibility of sound sharp interrupting is not provided as required in accordance with the performed melody.
  • Fig. 1 is a common view of the percussion instrument.
  • a percussion instrument of the invention comprises a bell body 1, a swinging and turning type striker 2, secured within the said bell body 1, and a base 3, provided with a turntable 4, mounted on the said base 3.
  • a muffle 7 and an arm 8 are mounted on the said base by means of axes 5 and 6.
  • a striker gripping means 9 are provided on the said arm 8.
  • the said arm 8 and the said muffle 7 may be turned about the said axes 5 and 6 by means of drives (not shown), mounted on the said base 3 and the said turntable 4.
  • a turntable discrete tuning drive and the said arm 8 and muffle 7 turning drives aren't a subject of the invention and aren't disclosed in the said patent application being well-known designs.
  • the control of the said drives may be carried out by different ways: manually, by means of railway track automatic system, but the most wide sound spectrums and high sound quality may be attained when controlling computers are used.
  • the base 3 is disposed under the said bell body in such a way as to provide interaction of the said muffle 7 with the said bell body and of the said arm with the said striker.
  • control system When the controlling computer is used as the control system, the required melody is selected from a control desk and control actions are transmitted to arm, muffle and turntable turning drives by means of control system (not disclosed).
  • the said device of the kind described is operating in the following way.
  • the arm 8 carries out the turning motion about the said axis 6 and while catching the said striker 2 by the said gripping means 9 accelerates the said striker up to predetermined velocity, thereafter being disengaged with the said striker at the specified point and proceeded with a motion from force of inertia comes in contact with the said bell body wall with an impulse of force, equal to a product of the striker mass by the velocity thereof As a result of the said contact the bell utters the sound.
  • the said striker After striking against the said bell body the said striker returns to the starting point.
  • the said arm 8 displaces the said striker 2 to the said gripping means 9 after the said striker being passed a lowest position and guides the said striker to the bell body wall again. Then the cycle rounds a loop.
  • the said turntable 4 is turned to a determined angle by means of the said drive after each strike. It enables to enlarge a zone of contact between the said striker and the said bell body and in consequence to increase bell service life and sound quality.
  • the said muffle turning drive is actuated and the said muffle is turned about the said axis 5 until the said muffle comes into contact with the said bell body wall, this enables to dampen the sound quickly.
  • the said arm In the process of the said striker motion the said arm overtakes the said striker and begins to accelerate the said striker up to a disengaging point at the right position, thereafter the said striker moves from force of inertia until it strikes against the percussion instrument body wall.
  • the said striker moves in the opposite direction.
  • the said arm overtakes the said striker and follows it until the said striker stops at the extreme left position without striking against the bell. Further the cycle rounds a loop.
  • the strike moves, for instance, to the right until being struck against the said bell body (the acceleration of the said striker by the said arm is carried out just as in the first case).
  • the said striker moves in the opposite direction after passing the disengaging point, the said striker is caught and is accelerated by the said arm with disengaging at the disengaging point, thereafter the said striker being moved from force of inertia strikes against the said bell body at the opposite point. Further the cycle rounds a loop.
  • the striking frequency, striking force, a supply and a withdraw of the said muffle from (to) a bell body wall enable to reproduce a high fidelity wide melody's spectrum.

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EP96927958A 1996-05-12 1996-08-02 Instrument a percussion Withdrawn EP0784309A1 (fr)

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RU96108489A RU2087949C1 (ru) 1996-05-12 1996-05-12 Звуковой инструмент ударного действия
RU96108489 1996-05-12
PCT/RU1996/000208 WO1996036040A1 (fr) 1996-05-12 1996-08-02 Instrument a percussion

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EP0784309A1 true EP0784309A1 (fr) 1997-07-16

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GB191215010A (en) * 1912-06-27 1913-06-19 Thomas Lea Southgate Improvements in or relating to Striking and Damping Mechanism for Bells, Bars, Tubes and Plates.
US3769870A (en) * 1973-01-12 1973-11-06 A Huber Caroling bells

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US3769870A (en) * 1973-01-12 1973-11-06 A Huber Caroling bells

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DE102007042037A1 (de) * 2007-09-05 2009-03-12 Roland Meinl Musikinstrumente Gmbh & Co. Kg Rhythmusmusikinstrument

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WO1996036040A1 (fr) 1996-11-14
RU2087949C1 (ru) 1997-08-20

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