EP1050871A2 - Saxophone amélioré à utilisation simple - Google Patents

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EP1050871A2
EP1050871A2 EP00201576A EP00201576A EP1050871A2 EP 1050871 A2 EP1050871 A2 EP 1050871A2 EP 00201576 A EP00201576 A EP 00201576A EP 00201576 A EP00201576 A EP 00201576A EP 1050871 A2 EP1050871 A2 EP 1050871A2
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Luigi Andrea Ripamonti
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    • 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
    • G10D7/00—General design of wind musical instruments
    • G10D7/06—Beating-reed wind instruments, e.g. single or double reed wind instruments
    • G10D7/08—Saxophones
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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 present invention relates to an improved saxophone with high simplicity of use.
  • saxophone is intended in this context to include any one of the instruments belonging to the saxophone family, thus comprising each of the following seven types: sopranino, soprano, contralto, tenor, barytone, bass and double bass.
  • the known saxophone is a musical wind instrument with simple reed having technical features similar to clarinet, but made of metal and with conical tube, mainly used for jazz and light music.
  • the player expiring inside the instrument through a mouthpiece connected to the instrument pipe, produces a set of pressure waves by means of the vibration of the reed or blade inside the instrument so as to generate sound.
  • the sound acquires the desired frequency according to the instrument keys pressed by the player, setting the air outlet points and therefore the frequency of the produced sound and consequently the desired notes.
  • the known saxophones have a pair of platforms on which there is a plurality of keys that through some levers, are actuated to open or close several caps so as to cause air to pass or not to pass at several points through holes underlying said caps.
  • the object of the present invention is to remove the drawbacks belonging to the present state of the art.
  • the present invention relates to an improved saxophone with high simplicity of use, easy and cheap to be manufactured, allowing to perform easily complicated musical passages, avoiding to be compelled to effect long practise for a correct performance of various pieces, but at the same time maintaining a full compatibility with the known saxophones, thus allowing to play the notes also in the conventional way.
  • an improved saxophone with high simplicity of use comprising a metal body with a reed at its mouthpiece, having a plurality of holes and a corresponding plurality of caps to open and close said holes, said caps being operatively associated with a plurality of keys, some of these keys being grouped in an upper platform and a lower platform, wherein means are provided to mutually connect some of the keys of the upper and lower platform, and one or more supplemental keys of the lower platform, said means causing one or more of said caps to open and/or to close upon pressure on said keys.
  • the improved saxophone 1 with high simplicity of use has a metal body 2 of conventional type, in which there is a plurality of holes 3 and a corresponding plurality of caps 4 adapted to close or open said holes 3.
  • the body 2 at its upper end has a circular opening 5 adapted to lodge a mouthpiece and a connection pipe, while inside the opening a reed or blade of known type (not shown) is conventionally adapted to generate vibrations at the passage of air and therefore sound producing pressure waves.
  • Said caps 4 are controlled and actuated by keys 6 connected to the caps 4 by one or more levers 7 hinged to each other. More particularly some of said keys 6 are grouped in an upper platform 8 and some others in a lower platform 9.
  • the saxophone 1 has one key 16 of the lower platform 9, that is provided with a tubular extension 10 allowing a mechanical connection with a bridge 11 placed in front of the platform 9 near the hole 12 that together with its dedicated cap 13 is designed to perform the B note.
  • a supplemental key preferably consisting of an L-shaped rod 14 hinged on the bridge 11 and opposed at the other free end by the extension 10.
  • said key 16 is connected in a traditional way through its bridge 15 and a lever 7 to the hole 17 that together with its dedicated cap 18 is designed to perform the C note.
  • the lower platform 9 is completed by a supplemental key 19, which is also added to the traditional saxophone, connected to a bridge 20 arranged parallel to bridge 11 in a more internal position.
  • Said key 19 by its tubular extension 21 is associated also to a conventional lever 7 actuating the cap 18 of the C note associated to the key 16 as already described.
  • the bridge 20 by elastic and mechanical means connected to it, preferably by metal levers and one or more needle springs connected to said levers, allows to connect the key 19 with the cap 22 arranged on the hole 23 dedicated to the C# note.
  • the key 19 through a lever similar to said levers 7, is hinged on the bridge 20 and is connected to a needle spring.
  • the key 19 When the key 19 is pressed, it overcomes the spring strength and lifts the cap 22, while at the same time actuates the cap 18 as above described.
  • the bridge 20 is also connected by a rod 24 to a key 25 of the upper platform 8 so that the keys 25 and 19 are coupled in a synchronous way, namely pressure exterted by the player on one of these keys will lower also the other key and generates the same configuration of open and closed caps, not only for the above mentioned caps, but also for the other caps along the body 2, that were already connected to key 19 in the saxophones of the prior art.
  • a further key 26 of the upper platform in a similar way not only actuates in the usual way the cap 13 of the B note through another rod 27 with levers and needle springs annexed thereto, but actuates also the cap 18 of the C note through the rod 14 connected to key 16 as previously described.
  • the player may decide not to use key 19 of the lower platform 9, for instance playing the C# note in a traditional way by engaging the little finger of both hands on both platforms 8 and 9 and the same considerations apply to the B note.
  • the player may play the C# and B notes by the single pressure on key 19 or key 26 or conversely on key 25 or rod 14 synchronized thereto, respectively, so as to keep one hand totally free in an advantageous way.

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EP00201576A 1999-05-07 2000-05-01 Saxophone amélioré à utilisation simple Withdrawn EP1050871A3 (fr)

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ITMI991004 1999-05-07
IT1999MI001004A IT1312459B1 (it) 1999-05-07 1999-05-07 Sassofono modificato ad elevata semplicita' di impiego

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IT201700041135A1 (it) * 2017-04-13 2018-10-13 Stefano Piloni Flauto traverso discendente al si

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DE208819C (fr) *
FR614673A (fr) * 1925-08-25 1926-12-20 Perfectionnements apportés dans les instruments de musique à vent
GB283924A (en) * 1927-01-20 1929-03-11 Maurice Evette Improvements in or relating to wind musical instruments
FR656239A (fr) * 1928-06-22 1929-04-30 Perfectionnements apportés aux saxophones
US4453445A (en) * 1982-09-24 1984-06-12 Todd John H Saxophone valve key

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE208819C (fr) *
FR614673A (fr) * 1925-08-25 1926-12-20 Perfectionnements apportés dans les instruments de musique à vent
GB283924A (en) * 1927-01-20 1929-03-11 Maurice Evette Improvements in or relating to wind musical instruments
FR656239A (fr) * 1928-06-22 1929-04-30 Perfectionnements apportés aux saxophones
US4453445A (en) * 1982-09-24 1984-06-12 Todd John H Saxophone valve key

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
IT201700041135A1 (it) * 2017-04-13 2018-10-13 Stefano Piloni Flauto traverso discendente al si

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