JP2006119675A - Electronic keyboard musical instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve acoustic characteristics even in both of positions on a listener side and a player side with simple constitution. <P>SOLUTION: The musical instrument is provided with a keyboard 3 near the front of a housing 1, and the tones from the fronts of speakers 12a and 12b are emitted backward through main tone holes 10a and 10b placed on the back of the housing 1. The musical instrument is drilled with sub-tone holes 11a and 11b which are oblong holes on the housing 1 at the prescribed points corresponding to the side faces of the speakers in such arrangement that the portions of the sub-tone holes overlap the side faces of the speakers and the long sides of the sub-tone holes make a right angle with the sound emission axes of the speakers. The acoustic components from the side faces of the speakers are emitted upward of the musical instrument and treble components are eventually made up and therefore, the drop of the treble does not occur even on the player side. Also, the direction of the spread of the tones to the right and left is facilitated by the constitution in which the long sides of the sub-tone holes extend perpendicularly to the sound emission axes of the speakers. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic keyboard instrument, and more particularly to an improvement in a sound emission structure from a speaker.

  In an electronic keyboard instrument having a flat board-like casing as a whole, the conventional speaker arrangement structure is a type in which a sound emitting opening is provided on the top of the casing and the speaker is arranged with the front facing this opening. And a type in which a sound emitting opening is provided on the rear surface of the housing, and a speaker is disposed with the front facing the opening. In the former case, since the sound is emitted above the musical instrument, for example, when the audience is assumed to be located some distance behind the musical instrument, the passage of the sound to the audience is not sufficient. On the other hand, when the speaker is arranged facing the rear of the instrument as in the latter case, the sound passing to the audience is improved, but the sound passing by the performer facing the keyboard on the front of the instrument is improved. not enough. For this reason, a mistouch due to a sense of incongruity of the key touch response due to poor feedback of sound to the performer results in a decrease in performance expressiveness.

On the other hand, in Patent Document 1 below, the speaker is disposed obliquely upward at a predetermined position near the back of the musical instrument casing, thereby improving acoustic characteristics on both the audience side and the performer side. Is shown. However, in the case where the speaker is directed obliquely upward as described above, there is a limit to the acoustic characteristics of the front (near the player) and the rear (near the audience), which is insufficient. In addition, it is not easy to manufacture and assemble, and the cost is increased.
Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-103382

  In general, since the propagation of sound is easily diffracted in the low sound range, it is relatively easy to hear regardless of the position of the speaker (directivity direction on the front surface of the speaker). On the other hand, the high sound range is affected by the arrangement of the speakers, and is difficult to hear at a position where the passage of sound is insufficient. Therefore, in the above-described prior art, the acoustic characteristic particularly in the high sound range becomes a problem.

  For example, it is possible to improve the sound characteristics regardless of the position of the listener by adding speakers for the high sound range to compensate for the sound characteristics in the high sound range, or providing multiple speakers in different sound emission directivity directions. It is. However, if it does so, the manufacturing cost will become high and the problem that a musical instrument housing will necessarily enlarge will arise.

Furthermore, there exist the following patent document 2 and nonpatent literature 1 as a prior art. In Patent Document 2, a single speaker is arranged with its front face facing the back of the instrument housing, and a plurality of sound emitting slits are provided in the upper case of the instrument at a position away from the speaker. It is shown. This slit is composed of a plurality of slits arranged in two rows, and all of them do not overlap the side surface of the speaker. Therefore, the acoustic vibration generated from the side surface of the speaker cannot be emitted directly from the slit, and only the acoustic vibration that bypasses the inside of the case can be emitted. Non-Patent Document 1 shows a configuration in which a large number of small holes are provided on a front panel separately from the front of a speaker on the back of a case in a keyboard instrument.
JP 7-199943 A Keyboard Magazine January 2001, pages 134-135

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic keyboard instrument that can improve acoustic characteristics at any position on the audience side and the performer side with a simple configuration. is there.

  The present invention includes a keyboard provided near the front surface of the housing, a main tone hole provided on the back surface of the housing, and a speaker provided in the housing with the front surface facing the main tone hole. In the electronic keyboard instrument provided, in the upper surface of the housing, a subtone hole made of a horizontally long hole is formed at a predetermined position corresponding to the side surface of the speaker, the subtone hole portion overlaps the side surface of the speaker, and The long side of the subtone hole is formed so as to be perpendicular to the sound output axis of the speaker.

  The front surface of the speaker provided in the housing is directed to the main tone hole provided on the back surface of the housing, and the sound output from the front surface of the speaker is directed toward the back of the instrument (for example, directed to the audience). Sounded. The sound from the front of the speaker is emitted toward the back of the instrument, but the low frequency range is easily diffracted, so it resonates well even on the player's side facing the keyboard on the front of the instrument. On the other hand, the subtone hole is formed by a horizontally long hole at a predetermined position corresponding to the side surface of the speaker on the upper surface of the housing, and the subtone hole portion overlaps the side surface of the speaker. By arranging the long side so that it is perpendicular to the sound output axis of the speaker, acoustic vibrations generated from the speaker can be efficiently emitted upward (side direction of the speaker). In addition, the structure in which the long side of the subtone hole extends at right angles to the sound output axis of the speaker has an effect that it is easy to produce a sound spread to the left and right. Further, since the sound emitted upward from the subtone hole is easy to hear by the performer located in front of the musical instrument, the missing component in the diffracted sound, particularly the high-frequency component, is compensated. For this reason, the high frequency range does not drop even on the performer side. Also, behind the instrument (for example, the audience side), the low frequency range is emphasized and the high frequency range passes well. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the acoustic characteristics at any position on the audience side and the performer side with a simple configuration in which a subtone hole is simply provided.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig.1 (a) is a top view which shows the upper surface of an example of the electronic keyboard instrument which concerns on this invention, The rear view which looked at this electronic keyboard instrument from the arrow a is shown in FIG.1 (b). In addition, in the rear view shown in (b), the top and bottom are represented in reverse. A housing 1 of an electronic keyboard instrument according to the present embodiment includes a roof plate portion 2 that forms a rear upper surface portion, a bottom plate portion 4 that forms a bottom surface portion, left and right side plate portions 5a and 5b that form left and right side portions, and a back surface portion. The back plate part 7 which comprises and the mouth stick part 6 which comprises the front part. A keyboard part 3 is arranged on the front upper surface of the casing 1, and the internal mechanism of the keyboard part 3 is accommodated inside the casing 1. An operation panel 9 including various operation switches and the like is provided at a predetermined portion of the roof plate portion 2.

  In the housing 1, stereo left and right speakers 12a and 12b (shown by dotted lines in FIG. 1) are arranged at predetermined positions near the rear back plate 7 and the front surfaces of the speakers 12a and 12b. That is, the sound outlet is directed toward the rear plate portion 7 behind the musical instrument. As shown in FIG. 1B, the back plate 7 is provided with main tone holes 10a and 10b corresponding to the sound outlets on the front surfaces of the left and right speakers 12a and 12b, respectively. In the example shown in the figure, each main tone hole 10a, 10b is composed of a set of a plurality of long and small holes, and each set of the small holes substantially corresponds to the cone size of the speaker, that is, the size of the sound outlet. As described above, the speakers 12a and 12b are arranged with their front surfaces, i.e., sound emission ports, facing the main tone holes 10a and 10b corresponding to the speakers 12a and 12b, respectively. Sound is emitted to the rear of the instrument.

  In the roof plate 2, subtone holes 11 a and 11 b are formed at predetermined positions corresponding to the upper sides of the left and right speakers 12 a and 12 b, respectively. FIG. 2 shows an example of the positional relationship between the speaker 12a and the subtone hole 11a, and is a cross-sectional view taken along the line XX of FIG. In the illustrated example, a subtone hole 11a is formed above the core portion of the speaker 12a attached to the back plate portion 7. The same applies to the other subtone hole 11b. The upper surface of the subtone hole 11a is covered with a detachable saran net 13. For convenience of illustration, the saran net 13 is not shown in FIG. 1A and is shown by a one-dot chain line in FIG. A saran net mounting recess 14a is formed around the subtone hole 11a, and the saran net 13 is mounted thereon. The other subtone hole 11b is similarly formed with a saran net mounting recess 14b.

  As an example, the subtone holes 11a and 11b are formed as horizontally long holes as shown in FIG. 1A, and the center Q of the holes is appropriately shifted from the sound output axis S of the speaker. Preferably, as shown in the present embodiment, the center Q of the subtone hole may be shifted from the sound output axis S of the speaker by an appropriate distance d in the left and right side surfaces of the musical instrument. That is, the left subtone hole 11a is in the left direction in FIG. 1A, the right subtone hole 11b is in the right direction in FIG. 1A, and the center Q of the hole is the center of the speaker, that is, the sound emission axis S to d. Arranged so as to be shifted. It is preferable in terms of sound separation that the subtone holes 11a and 11b are provided apart from each other in the left-right direction. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a subtone hole may be provided in an appropriate arrangement above the speakers 12a and 12b.

  As shown in FIG. 1A, it is effective if the subtone holes 11a and 11b are formed as long holes and the long sides thereof are perpendicular to the sound output axis S. However, the shape of the subtone holes 11a and 11b is not limited to a long hole, and may be an appropriate shape such as a circle, an ellipse, or a polygon.

  The predetermined portion corresponding to the side surface of the speaker in which the subtone holes 11a and 11b are to be provided in the roof plate 2 is preferably within the range of the depth length H of the speakers 12a and 12b, as shown in FIG. Thereby, the acoustic vibration from the speaker can be efficiently emitted upward. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a subtone hole may be provided at a position somewhat deviated from this range.

The opening area of each subtone hole 11a, 11b is smaller than the area of the main tone hole 10a, 10b. For example, about ³ to 15 cm ² is generally used, and about 10 cm ² is preferable in view of sound emission performance and the like.

  The roof plate portion 2 is coupled to the back plate portion 7 via left and right and center partition plates 8a to 8c (shown by dotted lines in FIG. 1A). The plates 8a to 8c are combined holding plates for connecting and holding the roof plate portion 2 and the back plate portion 7, and only the plate 8b serves as a partition plate for sound separation. The left and right partition plates 8a and 8c are arranged closer to the side plate portions 5a and 5b than the left and right speakers 12a and 12b, and the central partition plate 8b is located between the speakers 12a and 12b. The partition plates 8 a to 8 c function as connection reinforcing members that connect the roof plate portion 2, the back plate portion 7, and the bottom plate portion 4. That is, as shown in FIG. 2 with respect to the central partition plate 8b, the partition plate 8b is coupled to the roof plate portion 2 at the upper end portion, and is coupled to the bottom plate portion 4 at the lower end portion. Although not shown, it is coupled to the back plate 7 at the rear end. The same applies to the other partition plates 8a and 8c. For the sake of convenience, in FIG. 2, the keyboard unit 3 is schematically shown by a two-dot chain line, and the detailed structure is not shown. The central partition plate 8b not only functions as the connection reinforcing member but also exhibits an excellent effect in acoustic separation between the left and right speakers 12a and 12b.

  With the above configuration, the front sound output ports of the speakers 12a and 12b are directed to the main tone holes 10a and 10b provided in the back plate portion 7, and the sound output from the front sound output ports is directed toward the rear of the instrument (for example, Sounded (in the direction of the audience). The sound from the front sound emission port is emitted toward the back of the instrument, but the low frequency range is easily diffracted, so that it resonates well even on the player side facing the keyboard portion 3 on the front of the instrument. Since the subtone holes 11a and 11b are formed in the roof plate portion 2 at positions corresponding to the upper sides of the left and right speakers 12a and 12b, acoustic vibrations from the side surfaces of the speakers are emitted upward from the subtone holes. . Since the sound emitted upward from the subtone holes 11a and 11b is easily heard by the performer located in front of the musical instrument, the missing component in the diffracted sound, particularly the high-frequency component, is compensated. For this reason, the high frequency range component that tends to be insufficient on the performer side is compensated for, and good acoustic characteristics can be obtained. Behind the musical instrument (for example, the audience side), all the components are emitted from the main tone holes 10a and 10b, and the acoustic characteristics are further improved by the acoustic components emitted from the sub tone holes 11a and 11b.

Although the present embodiment has been described above, the arrangement of the subtone holes 11a and 11b is preferably as close as possible to the speakers 12a and 12b. In an extreme case, the high sound range can be reached directly if there is no barrier on the roof plate part 2 or the back plate part 7, but the acoustic diaphragm is used to increase the low sound level by the roof plate part 2 or the back plate part 7. That doesn't work. Therefore, it is desirable that the subtone hole for directly reaching the vibration from the back surface of the speaker cone is closest to the cone.
Then, the upward arrow portion 2X of the cone 12P is good, but since the distance between the rear end face of the roof plate portion 2 and the subtone holes 11a and 11b becomes small and the strength cannot be maintained, the subtone hole 11a, The arrangement position of 11b was set above the core part 12M as shown in FIG. Even in this case, the experimental results were good as described later.

  An actual measurement example of acoustic characteristics obtained according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 shows an electronic keyboard instrument according to the present embodiment placed on a stand having a height of 1 m, and a microphone is installed at a height of about 45 cm above the center of the keyboard portion 3 and about 15 cm in front of the microphone. The frequency characteristic of the acoustic signal which collected the performance sound generated from the speakers 12a and 12b with the microphone is shown. Since the position of the microphone generally corresponds to the position of the performer's ear, the characteristic shown in FIG. 3 corresponds to the frequency characteristic of the performance sound heard by the performer. The vertical axis represents the sound pressure level, and the horizontal axis represents the frequency. According to FIG. 3, the sound pressure level shows a relatively high value between frequencies of about 200 to 400 Hz, but does not drop so much to about 4 kHz after that. For example, in the case of 88 keys of a piano, the sound range generated by the electronic keyboard instrument is about 27 Hz to about 4 kHz. Therefore, it can be understood that good frequency characteristics can be obtained over the entire required sound range.

  In the above embodiment, the main tone holes 10a and 10b are made up of a plurality of elongated small holes. However, the main tone holes 10a and 10b are not limited to this, and one large hole substantially corresponding to the size of the sound outlet of the speaker. In this case, the main tone hole may be covered with a saran net or the like.

  According to the embodiment described above, it is possible to provide an electronic keyboard instrument having good acoustic characteristics at any position on the audience side and the performer side with a low cost, a compact and simple structure.

(A) is a top view which shows one Example of the electronic keyboard musical instrument which concerns on this invention, (b) is a rear view of the electronic keyboard musical instrument which concerns on the same Example. XX sectional drawing of Fig.1 (a). The graph which shows the example of an actual measurement of the frequency characteristic in the player side of the electronic keyboard instrument which concerns on the Example.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Case 2 Roof board part 3 Keyboard part 4 Bottom board part 5a, 5b Side board part 6 Mouth stick part 7 Back board part 8a-8c Partition board 9 Operation panel 10a, 10b Main tone hole 11a, 11b Subtone hole 12a, 12b Speaker 13 Saran net 14a, 14b Saran net mounting recess

Claims (2)

An electronic keyboard comprising a keyboard portion provided near the front surface of the housing, a main tone hole provided on the back surface of the housing, and a speaker provided in the housing with the front surface facing the main tone hole In musical instruments,
On the upper surface of the housing, a subtone hole made of a horizontally long hole is formed at a predetermined position corresponding to the side surface of the speaker, the portion of the subtone hole overlaps the side surface of the speaker, and the long side of the subtone hole An electronic keyboard musical instrument, wherein the electronic keyboard musical instrument is formed so as to be perpendicular to the sound output axis of the speaker.   2. The electronic keyboard instrument according to claim 1, wherein an opening area of the sub tone hole is smaller than a size of the entire main tone hole.

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