EP2179413A2 - Pièce d'adaptation - Google Patents

Pièce d'adaptation

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Publication number
EP2179413A2
EP2179413A2 EP08785375A EP08785375A EP2179413A2 EP 2179413 A2 EP2179413 A2 EP 2179413A2 EP 08785375 A EP08785375 A EP 08785375A EP 08785375 A EP08785375 A EP 08785375A EP 2179413 A2 EP2179413 A2 EP 2179413A2
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Prior art keywords
adapter
adapter piece
instrument
fingers
piece
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EP2179413B1 (fr
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Berent Korfer
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GUSTAV PIRAZZI & COMP & Co KG GmbH
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Gustav Pirazzi and Comp KG
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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
    • G10D3/18—Chin-rests, hand-rests, shoulder rests or guards being removable from, or integral with the instrument

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  • the invention relates to an adapter piece for fastening a shoulder rest to a stringed instrument with an adapter body provided with at least four clip fingers engageable with a circumferential bottom edge of the stringed instrument to be supported.
  • shoulder rests are removably attached to the body of the instrument with a holding device and thus serve to make it easier for the musician to hold the instrument.
  • a shoulder rest is attached to a violin or the like and forms a support surface which rests on the shoulder of the musician, the instrument itself being supported at a chosen level which depends on the physique, in particular on the neck length of the musician.
  • the types having a solid bottom shaped according to the shoulder of the musician are preferred from a substantial market share.
  • the solid floor is usually provided at the bottom with a cushion which rests against the shoulder of the musician when the instrument is played.
  • Upwardly projecting holding element or carrying elements are fastened to the two ends of the base, which carry pivotable fork-shaped end pieces. these can attached to the side walls of the instrument body near the base of the carcass.
  • the bottom of the shoulder rest has a certain inherent elasticity and this serves to produce a certain clamping force with which the forked end pieces grasp the instrument. End pieces are also known in other embodiments in combination with the support elements, but usually all capture the instrument with a certain clamping action.
  • the disadvantage here is the tension that causes the adapter piece on the instrument, as they have a significant impairment of the sound quality result. This also applies to the said shoulder rests, which are attached by means of clamping forces. Furthermore, such an attachment of the adapter piece is not very stable, and the instrument tends in a virtuoso style of playing to tilt or partially detached from the support members. Adapterstü- The instruments, which are not easily detached from the instrument, are almost completely attached underneath the body floor and protrude outward beyond the instrument body. This, in turn, impedes the musician playing the instrument, and moreover, a full-size adapter greatly degrades the sound quality of the instrument.
  • the invention is therefore an object of the invention to provide an adapter piece of the above type, with the sound stability of the instrument is kept particularly low with high stability.
  • the invention is based on the consideration that the tonal impairment of a stringed instrument, can be kept low by the mechanical contact of the adapter piece is tuned to the body of the instrument targeted to the vibration behavior. Impairment of the sound purity and thus the sound quality of a stringed instrument result in particular from possible interferences in the vibration behavior.
  • the vibration behavior the knowledge is used that a string instrument body shows some places, where stiffenings of the body are worked in, so that there tend to be nodes of vibration. At these stiffeners, the so-called blocks, the body is thus relatively sensitive to vibration from mechanical interference and external contacts.
  • the adapter piece is thus designed to make mechanical contact with the body in these areas.
  • the clip fingers may be adapted for positioning according to ergonomic or individual needs.
  • two of the clip fingers are positioned so that they are engageable with the peripheral bottom edge adjacent to the lower end block and on both sides of this. This symmetrical attachment largely takes into account the vibration profile of the instrument.
  • the adapter piece expediently has an approximately horseshoe-shaped basic shape, in which the clamping fingers for the area of the outer blocks are attached to the respective end of the adapter body.
  • this horseshoe-shaped basic shape of the adapter body can on the one hand be adapted to the outer contours of the string instrument, on the other hand, only a small material requirement and, associated with a lower weight than in flat design incurred. Furthermore, thus a good coverage and thus a great stability are given, but also unsightly protrusions and a certain bulkiness of the adapter body can be avoided.
  • the shape of the adapter body is adapted in its outer contours to that of the instrument to be supported in order to reuse existing shoulder rest without any problems.
  • the adapter body has approximately the thickness of the peripheral bottom edge of the string instrument in its thickness.
  • conventional shoulder rests fit easily on the adapter piece and can be easily attached with their holding elements on the adapter body.
  • such a shaped adapter body has the advantage that the above-mentioned unsightly supernatants and the bulkiness can be avoided.
  • the adapter body advantageously has in its outer contour in the region of the lower end block of the string instrument to be supported. make a gap. This cutout in the contour leaves room for the clavicle of the musician.
  • the adapter piece does not press painfully on the collarbone and gives the necessary freedom of movement which, in particular, a soloist requires with virtuoso play with the instrument.
  • the inside of the staple fingers has a protective coating.
  • this protective coating is designed as a felt coating, which has the consequence that very pleasant damping properties are ensured by felt and thus preserves the sound quality of the stringed instrument.
  • Other protective coatings of the staple fingers such. As foams, fabrics or the like can be used instead of felt.
  • the outer blocks positioned clip finger to construct so that they surround with their staple hooks only the peripheral bottom edge, without touching the body floor or even the body wall.
  • a mechanical intervention has the least effect on the vibration behavior and ensures good sound purity of the stringed instrument.
  • the adapter body In order to attach a plurality of different shoulder rests on the adapter piece, it is advantageous to provide on the adapter body means for fixing a shoulder rest.
  • Such means can be holes for receiving grub screws in the simplest way, but also made on the adapter body and / or patch sleeves with locking screw to attach small spacer bars.
  • Conventional shoulder rests with clamping device can be clamped on the adapter body in a simple manner.
  • a number of wheels are arranged with both sides, each provided with counter-rotating threaded screws on the adapter piece expediently.
  • the grub screws engage on the one hand in an associated threaded bore and / or thread in the adapter body and on the other hand in an associated thread in the shoulder rest.
  • the wheel is rotated, and due to the opposing thread, the setscrew then tighten in both threaded holes. This causes a very simple and strong, resilient attachment and also within certain limits, a height leveling of the shoulder rest.
  • the respective rotary knob expediently has a diameter of at least 15 mm to a maximum of 40 mm, in order to allow a sufficiently large measured contact area of adapter piece and shoulder rest.
  • a common diameter can be in the range of 15 mm to 25 mm, on the one hand to have enough space and on the other hand good handling of the To reach rotary wheel.
  • a surface tension can be given, which ensures good stability between the shoulder support and adapter piece.
  • the adapter piece in stringed instruments, especially violins and violas, since these instruments are held with their body between the head and shoulder of the musician. But also a use with cellos is conceivable, except that then instead of the shoulder rest of the sting for setting up the cello is attached to the adapter piece.
  • an adapter piece for attaching a shoulder rest for stringed instruments with staple fingers which are attached in the region of the outer blocks of the instrument body to the peripheral bottom edge, does not take high engagement in the vibration behavior of the instrument and the high sound quality preserved.
  • the adapter piece is adapted to the shape of the instrument body and easy to assemble and disassemble.
  • the adapter piece ensures a secure and comfortable hold of the stringed instrument while still a great freedom of movement of the musician.
  • a plurality of different shoulder rests can be fastened to the adapter piece, even existing shoulder rests with clamping element holders.
  • FIG. 1 is a bottom view of a classical violin with an implied seat of the blocks
  • FIG. 2 is a partial perspective view of a violin with attached
  • FIG. 3 shows an enlarged detail of an outer block area with attached staple finger from FIG. 2,
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the adapter piece with shoulder support of FIG. 2, and
  • FIG. 5 is a partial view of an adapter body with bolted shoulder rest.
  • a classical violin 1 according to FIG. 1 comprises a body 2, which forms the resonance body, a neck 4, on which a fingerboard is attached, and a vortex box with vertebrae 6, the end of which forms a screw 8.
  • the body 2 has a body bottom 10 and a peripheral bottom edge 12.
  • the neck 4 of the violin 1 is connected to the body 2 via the upper end block 16.
  • Other blocks that serve to stabilize the violin 1 are incorporated in the body 2 and therefore only indicated here by dashed lines, because these blocks are not visible from the outside. These blocks are a lower end block 18 and usually four outer blocks 20, 22, which are arranged at the area ends of a lateral inward curvature 24 of the body 2.
  • the strings of the violin 1 are tautened on the upper side of the violin 1 by means of a string holding end. Therefore, the lower end block 18 is very stable and firmly incorporated into the body 2.
  • the upper end block 16, which carries the neck 4 and the fingerboard, is stable and firmly processed in the body 2.
  • the upper end block 16 and the neck 4 are nowadays usually made separately and glued together to meet the necessary carrying properties as well as sound and vibration characteristics.
  • Sideways on the body floor 10 in the region of the peripheral bottom edge 12 are side walls, so-called frames 26, placed on these frames 26 and then the corpus floor opposite a corpse ceiling attached. These parts essentially form the body 2, which forms the resonance space of the violin 1, and are stabilized by means of the outer blocks 20, 22 and the upper and lower end block 16, 18.
  • the clamping fingers 32 engage with their clip hooks 34 in the region of the outer blocks 20 and the lower end block 18 only on the peripheral bottom edge 12.
  • An enlarged view of the engagement of one of the staple fingers 32 with one of the felt-coated staple hooks 34 is shown in FIG. 3.
  • the felt-coated staple hook 34 only surrounds the circumferential bottom edge 12, but without touching the carcass bottom 10 or the frame 26.
  • the shoulder support 30, which is attached to the adapter piece 28, is a support of conventional design, which is clamped with its own clamping device 36 on the adapter body 38.
  • This shoulder support 30 could be clamped without adapter piece 28 directly to the violin 1, but would have the disadvantage that tensions of the body 2 occur and thus leaves the clan quality of the violin 1 to be desired.
  • the adapter piece 28, as shown in FIG. 4, has a kind of horseshoe-shaped shape, which is adapted to the outer contour of the violin 1. Good to see is a recess 40 in the area corresponding to the lower end block 18 of the adapter body 38. This recess 40 provides enough space for the clavicle of the musician. Furthermore, it can be clearly seen that the adapter body 38 has approximately the same thickness as that of the peripheral bottom edge 10.
  • the staple fingers 32 with the staple hooks 34 can be variably adjusted in the longitudinal direction within certain limits.
  • a kind of elongated eyelet 42 allows a certain adjustability of the clip fingers 32 by the screws 44, with which the clip fingers 32 are secured to the adapter body 38, are releasably attached. If an adjustment of the clamping fingers 32 fits the carcass base 10, or rather the circumferential bottom edge 12, the violin 1, the screws 44 are tightened again.
  • the clamp fingers 32 therefore have in their interior on the screws 44 matching threaded receptacle piece. It is also conceivable to produce the adapter piece 28 in a simpler embodiment with fixed chamber fingers 32.
  • the arrangement of the clip fingers 32 on the adapter body 38 is substantially symmetrical, so that two of the clip fingers 32 are each attached to a front end 46 and the two other clip fingers 32 symmetrically directly adjacent to the recess 40. Furthermore, the clamp hooks 34 are arranged such that in each case a clamp hook 34 at the front end 46 with a clamp hook 34 adjacent to the recess 40 with its Eingreifkonturen largely opposite. As a result, the violin 1 is secured against slipping in the adapter piece 28, even with very virtuoso style of play.
  • the shoulder support 30 is screwed into the adapter body 38 by means of threaded pins 48 and rotary wheels 50 with an opposing internal thread.
  • two threaded holes 52 are drilled in the adapter body 38.
  • threaded sleeves can also be attached to the adapter body 38.
  • the wheels 50 are used for easy assembly and disassembly of the shoulder rest 30 on the adapter piece 28 and allow with Help the screws 48 a certain height level adjustment of the shoulder support 30.
  • the rotary wheels 50 with their diameter of 15 mm to 25 mm provide a sufficiently large contact surface and thus good stability between the adapter body 38 and shoulder rest 30th
  • the adapter piece 28 for the violin 1 shown in Figures 2 to 4 is only one embodiment.
  • the adapter piece 28 can also be made in an appropriate size for violas as well as for violoncellos, in which instead of a shoulder rest 30 then a sting can be mounted for placement on the floor.
  • the shoulder rest 30 shown here is just one example of many that can be attached to the adapter piece 28.
  • a chin rest can also be attached to the adapter piece 28, either by screwing into holes provided for this purpose or by holding brackets on the chin rest.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne une pièce d'adaptation (28) destinée à fixer un épaulement d'appui (30) sur un instrument à cordes, et qui présente un corps d'adaptation (38) doté d'au moins quatre doigts de pince (32) qui peuvent être engagés sur le côté périphérique de base (12) de l'instrument à cordes à soutenir. Tout en garantissant une stabilité élevée, il faut maintenir à un niveau particulièrement bas l'action sur le son de l'instrument. Dans ce but, au moins deux des doigts de pince (32) sont positionnés de manière à pouvoir être engagés sur le bord périphérique de base (12) dans la zone des blocs extérieurs (20) de l'instrument à cordes.
EP08785375.0A 2007-08-10 2008-08-06 Pièce d'adaptation Active EP2179413B1 (fr)

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DE102007038004A DE102007038004A1 (de) 2007-08-10 2007-08-10 Adapterstück
PCT/EP2008/006450 WO2009021657A2 (fr) 2007-08-10 2008-08-06 Pièce d'adaptation

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EP2179413A2 true EP2179413A2 (fr) 2010-04-28
EP2179413B1 EP2179413B1 (fr) 2019-07-24

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JP (1) JP5066257B2 (fr)
KR (1) KR101369218B1 (fr)
CN (1) CN101809649B (fr)
CA (1) CA2733679C (fr)
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KR20100057634A (ko) 2010-05-31
CA2733679A1 (fr) 2009-02-19
JP5066257B2 (ja) 2012-11-07
JP2010536071A (ja) 2010-11-25
WO2009021657A2 (fr) 2009-02-19
US20120137853A1 (en) 2012-06-07
CN101809649B (zh) 2012-08-08
KR101369218B1 (ko) 2014-03-03
US8618392B2 (en) 2013-12-31
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