FR2816096A1

FR2816096A1 - Percussion musical instrument stick has head made from stacked and assembled segments of various materials for different effects

Info

Publication number: FR2816096A1
Application number: FR0013954A
Authority: FR
Inventors: Norbert Nicolas Lucarain
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2000-10-30
Filing date: 2000-10-30
Publication date: 2002-05-03

Abstract

The stick, comprising a handle and a head, has the head made from a number of stacked and assembled segments of different materials such as wood, hard rubber, soft rubber and felt. The components of the head can be assembled to form a sphere or, in variants, they can be made from hemispheres or parallelepiped blocks of different sizes. The assembled heads can be covered with a variety of materials, such as yarn, wool or felt.

Description

La présente invention concerne les têtes de mailloches d'instruments à percussion. The present invention relates to the mallet heads of percussion instruments.

Une tête de mailloche d'instruments à percussion est l'élément qui, fixé sur un manche, va être porté au contact avec l'instrument. A mallet head of percussion instruments is the element which, fixed on a handle, will be brought into contact with the instrument.

Traditionnellement, les têtes de mailloches d'instruments à percussion n'offrent pas la possibilité d'obtenir un contact simultané ou progressif de plusieurs matériaux avec l'instrument frappé sans avoir à tourner la mailloche ou à en changer. Les têtes selon l'invention le permettent. Traditionally, the mallet heads of percussion instruments do not offer the possibility of obtaining simultaneous or progressive contact of several materials with the struck instrument without having to turn the mallet or change it. The heads according to the invention allow this.

Une tête de mailloche d'instruments à percussion selon l'invention est une boule ou un volume quelconque, formé de plusieurs segments (sphériques ou autres) superposés et assemblés perpendiculairement et/ou transversalement à l'axe du manche de la mailloche (figure 1 et 5), l'ensemble de ces segments de sections éventuellement distinctes comprenant au moins deux segments faits chacun d'un matériau différent ou d'une qualité différente de matériau l'un de l'autre. A head of a percussion instrument mallet according to the invention is a ball or any volume, formed by several segments (spherical or other) superimposed and assembled perpendicular and / or transverse to the axis of the handle of the mallet (Figure 1 and 5), all of these segments of possibly separate sections comprising at least two segments each made of a different material or of a different quality of material from one another.

Le choix des matériaux, des diverses couches, de leur épaisseur et de leur disposition déterminera au moment de l'impact sur l'instrument une palette sonore qui variera selon la force et/ou l'angle de frappe, progressivement ou non. The choice of materials, of the various layers, of their thickness and of their arrangement will determine at the time of the impact on the instrument a sound palette which will vary according to the force and / or the striking angle, gradually or not.

Une fois composée, cette tête pourra être recouverte au gré de chacun (fil, laine, feutre,... etc. ) comme toute autre tête de mailloche. Once composed, this head can be covered as desired (thread, wool, felt, etc.) like any other mallet head.

Les dessins annexés illustrent l'invention :
Selon un mode particulier de réalisation de l'invention, le volume d'une tête de mailloche d'instruments à percussion peut être une boule composée de deux segments sphériques de sections distinctes (figure 2) et de qualités de matériau différentes : - hémisphère [A] en caoutchouc mou. The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention:
According to a particular embodiment of the invention, the volume of a mallet head of percussion instruments can be a ball composed of two spherical segments of distinct sections (FIG. 2) and of different qualities of material: - hemisphere [ A] made of soft rubber.

- hémisphère [B] en caoutchouc dur. - hemisphere [B] of hard rubber.

L'hémisphère [A] a un diamètre sensiblement plus grand que l'hémisphère [B], de sorte qu'à l'impact, le matériau mou touche d'abord l'instrument [I] (figure 3). The hemisphere [A] has a diameter significantly larger than the hemisphere [B], so that on impact, the soft material first touches the instrument [I] (Figure 3).

Plus la force de frappe sera grande, plus l'hémisphère [A] en caoutchouc mou s'écrasera pour laisser l'hémisphère [B] en caoutchouc dur donner plus d'attaque à l'impact (figure 4). The greater the striking force, the more the hemisphere [A] of soft rubber will be crushed to let the hemisphere [B] of hard rubber give more attack on impact (Figure 4).

Selon un mode particulier de réalisation de l'invention, le volume d'une tête de mailloche d'instruments à percussion peut être un volume composé de trois segments parallélépipédiques de sections distinctes et de matériaux différents (figure 5) : - segment [C] en bois. According to a particular embodiment of the invention, the volume of a mallet head of percussion instruments can be a volume composed of three parallelepipedic segments of distinct sections and of different materials (FIG. 5): - segment [C] in wood.

- segment [D] en caoutchouc mou et d'une section supérieure au segment [C]. - segment [D] made of soft rubber and of a section larger than segment [C].

- segment [E] en feutre et d'une section supérieure au segment [D]. - segment [E] in felt and of a section larger than segment [D].

Au moment de l'impact et selon la force de frappe, le segment [E] s'écrasera pour laisser le segment [D] entrer aussi en contact avec l'instrument [I] (figure 6). Si la force de frappe est encore plus grande, les segments [E] et [D] s'écraseront pour laisser aussi le segment [C]

entrer en contact avec l'instrument [1] (figure 7). At the time of impact and depending on the strike force, the segment [E] will be crushed to let the segment [D] also come into contact with the instrument [I] (Figure 6). If the strike force is even greater, the segments [E] and [D] will be crushed to also leave the segment [C]

come into contact with the instrument [1] (figure 7).

Selon l'angle de frappe, les trois segments [C], [D], [E] peuvent entrer simultanément en contact avec l'instrument [1] (figure 8).Depending on the striking angle, the three segments [C], [D], [E] can simultaneously come into contact with the instrument [1] (Figure 8).

Claims

1) Mallet head of percussion instruments characterized in that it is any volume formed by several superimposed segments and assembled perpendicular and / or transverse to the axis of the handle of the mallet, all of these segments of sections possibly separate comprising at least two segments each made of a different material or of a different quality of material from each other.

2) mallet head of percussion instruments according to claim 1 characterized in that the volume is a ball composed of two spherical segments of distinct sections and of different qualities of material (Figure 2): - Hemisphere [A].

- Hemisphere [B] with a diameter significantly smaller than that of the hemisphere [A].

3) mallet head of percussion instruments according to claim 1 characterized in that the volume is composed of three parallelepiped segments of distinct sections and different materials (Figure 5): - segment [C].

- segment [D] of a section greater than segment [C]. - segment [E] of a section greater than segment [D].