ES1075301U - Musical instrument (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Musical instrument, which is made up of a rectangular prismatic configuration acoustic box, with support legs, with a smooth upper surface for the lying of a person, and a lower part with strings, forming a kind of monochord, characterized because on the sides of the acoustic box there are provided holes for connection of respective tubular headphones that at their free end are finished in adaptation elements on the ears of the person lying on the upper surface of the acoustic box. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Musical instrument.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a musical instrument, inspired by the monocord, so that the musical instrument of the invention constitutes what could be called acoustic immersion mono accordion, according to what will be exposed throughout this description.

The object of the invention is to achieve a musical instrument of the type referred to with new features Sound and vibration.

Background of the invention

As is known, a monocord is an instrument musical that can be considered as a precursor or predecessor of modern string musical instruments of the violin family, of the piano, of the guitar, etc., precisely because the monocord used a single string that vibrates on a box of rectangular resonance

However, there are currently models of monochord with several strings tuned in a single tone, with the purpose of making its harmonics clearly audible, and that routinely used for both therapeutic and musicals.

What are called great monochords, mainly used in Germany, they constitute a kind of stretcher on which a person lies and receives directly the vibration produced by the strings, these being in the part from below the instrument.

As previously stated, although they exist Monochrome models with several strings, these are tuned in a single tone and have only one bridge.

Description of the invention

The musical instrument that is recommended is inspired precisely by the multi-string monochord, but presenting the peculiarity that half of the strings are tuned in "do # 2" and the other half in "sun # 2".

Another feature of novelty is that the musical instrument is complemented by tubular headphones connected directly to the inside of the instrument and that by the opposite end include means of arrangement over the ear and by therefore the ear of the person, that is to say that the headphones are constituted by two tubes, preferably of PVC, that in one of its ends are connected, through a hole and through a section flexible, with the inside of the musical instrument, while the free end of each of the tubes, and through another section flexible, incorporates a kind of pad for support and adaptation over the user's ear, allowing the user to listen a totally surprising and novel sound, of great wealth and intensity.

Another novelty feature is that it includes two bridges, in front of the single bridge that include the monocordios conventional, allowing a greater transmission of the amount of vibration to the acoustic box.

Finally, the instrument, constituting a rectangular prismatic box with support legs, as is conventional, presents the particularity that the materials in which is made of special wood and with thicknesses and distribution of bridges and optimal support points.

Based on the referred characteristics, the advantages obtained through the musical instrument of the invention, can be summarized in the following:

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Thanks to the tubular headphones that incorporates the intensity and sound richness that the person lying above the instrument it receives, it is extraordinarily greater than the that any conventional monocord can provide, since the sound intensity in the musical instrument of the invention remains auditory isolated from the outside and the experience is as if It really was inside the instrument.

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Thanks to the two tuning tones of the strings, distributed equally, a very good improvement is achieved important with respect to conventional monochords, in terms of richness of sound and audible harmonics, being able to say that the musical instrument of the invention can be considered as a "monoacorde", that is to say of a single chord, in front of the common denomination of "monochord" referring to a single rope.

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Thanks to the two bridges it incorporates the musical instrument of the invention, more quantity is transmitted of vibration to the acoustic box, having a direct impact on the physical and sound sensation of who receives it.

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By last say that by virtue of the measures, thicknesses of the woods and distribution of the bridges and support points, you get a robustness that considerably improves that of the monochords conventional, achieving great stability in the tuning maintenance

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that then it will be done and in order to help a better understanding of the features of the invention, accompanies the present descriptive memory a set of drawings, based on the which innovations and advantages will be more easily understood of the musical instrument object of the invention.

Figure 1.- Shows a representation corresponding to a general perspective view of the instrument musical of the invention, showing the tubular headphones coupled to it.

Figure 2.- Shows a perspective view bottom of the musical instrument of the previous figure, showing the arrangement of string assemblies resting on the corresponding transverse bridges of the instrument.

Figure 3.- Shows, finally, a view in perspective of the arrangement of the strings on the corresponding support of the musical instrument for such strings, as well as the passage of these strings through small spheres of plastic.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

As you can see in the referred figures, the musical instrument of the invention, inspired by a monocord, presents an acoustic box (1) as a stretcher, on whose upper surface (2) will lie down the person who wants to hear the music, to feel and hear the sounds and vibrations they provide the strings (3) located under the sound box (1) of the instrument musical, half of those strings (3) tuned in "do # 2" while the other half are tuned in "sun # 2".

The acoustic box (1) is supported by legs (4) of support to constitute the kind of stretcher on which it has of lying down that person who tries to listen to the music and vibrations

The strings (3), as shown in the figure 2, run through respective transverse bridges (5) and will be tensioned by the appropriate pins (6).

The legs (4) will be made of wood, preferably of cedar and 25 mm thick, such legs (4) being anchored in the vertices of the soundboard itself (1). For their part the bridges (5) are made of wood, and in its upper vertex a 3 mm diameter stainless steel bar, on which precisely the ropes rest (3). These bridges (5) are symmetrical and preferably 4 cm high.

The acoustic box (1) is made of cedar wood with Okume waterproof plywood.

On the other hand, the strings (3) pass from the side from the acoustic box (1) to the base or bottom of it, by on top of a piece of wood, in correspondence with which each string (3) passes through a plastic sphere (7), or what is it same, for a pierced pearl of that material, which is used to fine tuning, resulting in this symmetric and identical system in both ends.

The soundboard (1) will present some preferably measures 190 x 66 x 16 cm, the surface being superior (2) totally smooth and that is where the person who is going to lie receive sound and vibration, so that in opposition to that smooth surface (2), that is on the bottom, is where they go the strings (3), specifically 50 strings, 15 of them tuned in "do # 2" and 25 other strings tuned in "sun # 2", and that It will sound the interpreter or therapist. Those strings (3) are separated by a centimeter and held on the extreme sides, in which is where the tensioning pins (6) are provided, while on the opposite side it has nails where they are anchored The ropes with a bow.

The main novelties of the instrument described musical focus on the incorporation of headphones tubular (8) that through a flexible section (9) connects to one of the holes (10) of the sound box (1), while the other end of the tubular headset (8), preferably constituted in PVC, incorporates another flexible section (9 '), equal to the previous one, to be finished, in each case, in a pad (12) adapted to the user's ears, linked together by a kind of headband or bridge (11) that joins them, as represented in the Figure 1.

Based on those tubular headphones (8), the person can directly hear the sound coming out of the box, and specifically from the inside of it, so when that person is lying on the smooth surface (2) of the sound box (1), that is on top of the instrument, will receive an intensity and optimal sound richness, since it is auditoryly isolated from exterior, which in combination with the two tones distributed between the strings (3) and the arrangement of these, a greater degree of sound richness and audible harmonics.

Also and based on the two bridges (5) of String support (3), more vibration is transmitted to the acoustic box (1), directly affecting the sensation physical and sound of who receives them.

Finally say that the pads (12) that are incorporated into the ends of the tubular headphones (8), are circular foam covered in leather with a silk-like fabric, as a filter, for support on the person's ear, without discarding other characteristics of those auction elements.

Claims (3)

1. Musical instrument, which being constituted from an acoustic box of rectangular prismatic configuration, with support legs, with a smooth upper surface for the lying of a person, and a lower part with strings, forming a kind of monochord, is characterized because on the sides of the acoustic box, holes are provided for connection of respective tubular headphones which at their free end are finished off in adaptation elements on the ears of the person lying on the upper surface of the acoustic box. 2. Musical instrument, according to claim 1, characterized in that it includes two lower bridges located symmetrically, supporting the corresponding strings, these having a tuning in "do # 2" half of them, and with a tuning in "sun # 2" the other half. 3. Musical instrument, according to previous claims, characterized in that the connection of the tubular headphones to the side holes of the acoustic box, as well as to the adaptation elements to the ears of the person, is carried out by flexible sections, said tubular headphones being PVC, preferably.