EP1859433A1 - Dispositif de reglage de la tension des cordes d'un instrument a cordes - Google Patents

Dispositif de reglage de la tension des cordes d'un instrument a cordes

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EP1859433A1
EP1859433A1 EP05716156A EP05716156A EP1859433A1 EP 1859433 A1 EP1859433 A1 EP 1859433A1 EP 05716156 A EP05716156 A EP 05716156A EP 05716156 A EP05716156 A EP 05716156A EP 1859433 A1 EP1859433 A1 EP 1859433A1
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motor
guitar
transmission
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bass
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Christopher Adams
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Tectus Anstalt
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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
    • G10D3/00—Details of, or accessories for, stringed musical instruments, e.g. slide-bars
    • G10D3/14—Tuning devices, e.g. pegs, pins, friction discs or worm gears
    • G10D3/147—Devices for altering the string tension during playing

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  • the invention relates to a device for adjusting the voltage of the first end on a winding device and with a second end to a further attachment fixed sides of a stringed instrument, in particular a guitar, preferably electric guitar, or a bass, preferably electric bass.
  • the string of a stringed instrument are each fixed rigidly with one of its two ends, the second end of the string runs on a winding device, for example in the form of a spindle or a similar element, on and can be relaxed or unwound by winding or unwinding, so as to obtain the right mood of the string.
  • a winding device for example in the form of a spindle or a similar element
  • the stringed instrument should also be able to be tuned automatically, i. by means of a control which controls a drive to change the string tension so that it produces the target sound due to a detected actual sound of the struck string compared with a desired tone, the strings must be changed in their voltage automatically.
  • a control which controls a drive to change the string tension so that it produces the target sound due to a detected actual sound of the struck string compared with a desired tone
  • a guitar especially an electric guitar, or a bass, preferably electric bass
  • basic motor drives can also be used to set the string tensions of the individual strings, it is very difficult to accommodate all these components on the spatially narrow head of the guitar without permanently changing their appearance and handling. It is then almost impossible, in addition to the drives, to arrange the entire control for a system for automatic tuning of the guitar or of the bass, preferably electric bass, on this part of the instrument. In that regard, it is desirable to look for alternative ways to adjust the tension of a string of a stringed instrument.
  • the central, inventive idea of the invention is to assign a separate motor instead of each of the winding devices, to reduce the number of motors as a whole and to transmit a torque generated by the motor via a transmission to flexible shafts which are connected to the winding devices for driving them are.
  • the use of flexible shafts allows a deflection of the torque in the direction of the winding devices.
  • flexible waves have the advantage that they are small, light and easy to arrange in a stringed instrument.
  • sensors are arranged at the head of the guitar, in particular electric guitar, or the bass, preferably electric bass, which detect the current tone of a broken string (for example a piezo pickup), a voltage supply is also present at the head of the instrument ,
  • a device for automatic tuning of the instrument as a whole can be arranged there on the head.
  • Such a device works -indem the actual actual sound of a vibrating string of frequency is detected, this frequency is compared with a setpoint stored in the control frequency and by the control of the motor (s) and the transmission in one controlled in such a manner that the corresponding string associated winding device, such as the associated vortex, according to the tensioning or relaxing the string is controlled so that it oscillates in the predetermined frequency.
  • such a device for automatic tuning of the stringed instrument in particular a guitar or bass, preferably electric bass
  • the control can also be arranged on the body of the instrument, in which case it must be ensured that the control signals from the body to the head of the engine / the motors and the transmission are transmitted.
  • the controller may be located on the head, a power supply for the controller and motor (s) may be routed from the body to the head.
  • the transmission according to the invention is preferably designed such that in each case one with a winding device directionally connected, flexible shaft selectively individually and connect with a torque output of a motor. In this way it is ensured that each of the winding devices can be moved individually for tensioning or relaxing the respective string automatically, so that each string can be individually stretched or relaxed and tuned with it.
  • the device has two motors, each generating a torque with opposite direction of rotation.
  • This type of oppositely directed torques can be generated, for example, by an arrangement of motors rotating in the same direction relative to one another in an axial direction relative to the torque, but it is also possible for motors to be set parallel to one another and run in opposite directions.
  • a transmission is provided, via which each of the guided to each one winding device, flexible shaft with the torque output of one or the other motor is connectable. In this way, by connecting the flexible shaft of a winding device to one or the other motor, more precisely with their torque outputs, a movement of the winding device for winding the unwinding or unwinding of the string, i. for clamping or relaxing the same achieved.
  • each of the winding devices can be controlled individually for tensioning or relaxing the string, while the remaining winding devices remain in their current position.
  • a possible embodiment of the transmission currently preferred in the context of the invention is specified in claim 4. Thereafter, one connected to the at least one motor a friction surface having, substantially cylindrical, about a longitudinal axis rotatable drive roller and connected to the flexible shafts, also having friction surfaces and arranged engageable with the drive roller take-off wheels arranged in the transmission.
  • a friction surface having, substantially cylindrical, about a longitudinal axis rotatable drive roller and connected to the flexible shafts, also having friction surfaces and arranged engageable with the drive roller take-off wheels arranged in the transmission.
  • the preferred arrangement of the device is described on a head of a guitar, preferably an electric guitar, or a bass, preferably electric bass.
  • Head of the electric guitar shown in Figure 1 with a device according to the invention arranged thereon.
  • Fig. 3 is a plan view of the back shown in Fig. 2 of the head of the electric guitar and Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line IV - IV shown in Fig. 3 through the head of the electric guitar with the device according to the invention
  • an electric guitar 1 shown in Fig. 1 The invention is not limited to the application in such an electric guitar, but can be used in principle in any stringed instrument, in particular in acoustic guitars, electric basses, stringed instruments and the like.
  • the electric guitar 1 schematically shown in Fig. 1 can be roughly divided into a body 2, a neck 3 and a head 4.
  • a mounting block in this example, a tremolo system block 5, arranged on which the Are fixed to the guitar strings ⁇ a to 6f each having a first end. With their respective second end "run the guitar strings 6a to 6f on arranged on the head 4 vertebrae 7 on.
  • the vortices 7 are connected to wings 8, by the rotation of which the vortices 7 are rotated and thus the string tension can be changed.
  • pick-guard 9th On the body 2 of the guitar 1 is below the strings 6a to 6f finally a so-called pick-guard 9th
  • the device according to the invention is arranged in this exemplary embodiment on the head 4 of the electric guitar 1, specifically on the rear side of the head 4 opposite the vertebrae 7.
  • the take-off wheels 13 with a radial friction surface are separated from radial friction surfaces of the drive rollers 14. If one of the vortices 7 is to be rotated for adjusting the string tension, the take-off wheel 13 connected to the corresponding flexible shaft 11 is brought into contact with the friction surface of one of the drive rollers 14 in a manner to be described in more detail later on, so that a torque transfer from that of the Drive roller 14 associated with the motor 15 can take place on the vortex 7.
  • the motors 15 are arranged opposite one another in the axial direction of the drive rollers 14.
  • the motors 15 themselves both have a torque output in the same direction, but by the arrangement opposite each other is output to the drive rollers 14, however, in each case a torque with opposite sense of rotation. Therefore, the take-off wheels 13 can be moved by engagement with one of the drive rollers 14 in a first direction of rotation or in a direction opposite to the first direction of rotation. In other words, depending on selected drive roller 14, with which a particular take-off wheel 13 is brought into engagement, the associated flexible shaft 11 and thus ultimately the vortex 7 are driven to relax or tension the string in the required direction of rotation.
  • Fig. 4 is again clearly seen that in an idle position, the pick-up loader 13 are separated with their Fritationsflachen of the friction surfaces of the drive rollers 14. Only when a selected vortex 7 is to be rotated in a particular direction, the associated Ab Cyprusrad 13 is printed with its radial friction surface targeted against the radial friction surface of the corresponding drive roller 14 to an adjustment of the vortex 7 and thus tensioning or relaxing on this vortex. 7 to reach the leading string.
  • Fig. 4 it can also be seen that in a space-saving design, the total of six drive wheels (one for each of the six vertebrae 7) in the view shown in Fig. 3 are arranged in two planes one above the other. In the same way, the flexible shafts 11 are guided in two planes.
  • the device shown is particularly well suited to m a system for automatic tuning of the stringed instrument, here the electric guitar 1, to be involved.
  • the motors 15 as well as the transmission 12 or a control for engaging individual pickup loader 13 are connected to a controller.
  • This control is further connected to a detection means for detecting the actual actual frequency in which a string is oscillating, and capable of comparing this actual frequency with a desired frequency.
  • the controller controls one of the motors 15 (depending on the required running direction for clamping or relaxing the to tuning string).
  • the controller controls a clutch mechanism, which brings the whirl 7, on which the tensioning string auf Maisden associated take-off wheel 13 with the driven motor 15 associated drive roller 14 into engagement, so that a tensioning or relaxing of the string takes place.
  • the controller further controls, preferably via a control, in which the sound produced by the string is permanently monitored when the string has the correct tension and then releases the take-off wheel 13 from the drive roller 14 and switches off the motor 15.
  • Mechanisms for coupling a take-off wheel 13 to one of the drive rollers 14 may, for example, be driven pneumatically or magnetically, preferably electromagnetically.

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EP05716156A 2005-03-17 2005-03-17 Dispositif de reglage de la tension des cordes d'un instrument a cordes Not-in-force EP1859433B1 (fr)

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US7692085B2 (en) 2010-04-06
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JP4681040B2 (ja) 2011-05-11
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