JP2007041608A - Waved fret of stringed musical instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stringed musical instrument with frets that can significantly improve the playing technique and achieve richer musical expressions using that. <P>SOLUTION: Waved frets formed by joining a finger plate and tip parts of frets by smooth surfaces are substituted for conventional frets raised upright from a finger plate to make movements between frets very smooth. Consequently, playing technique can be improved, and musical expression can be created. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a fingerboard and fret deformation in which a fingerboard and a fret of a stringed musical instrument such as a guitar, electric bass, ukulele, mandolin, and banjo are joined with a smooth inclined surface.

  Conventionally, in a stringed musical instrument with frets such as a guitar, an electric guitar, a ukulele, a mandolin, and a banjo, the fingerboard is flat, and the fret is a kind of “piece” that is attached vertically from the surface of the fingerboard. For this reason, when the finger is slid to the adjacent fret on the fingerboard, a very unnatural resistance is generated at the fingertip. Until now, this difficulty has been overcome with skilled performance techniques.

A device is required for the fingertip to move more smoothly on the fingerboard from one fret to the front and back fret. The solution to this problem is absolutely necessary to improve the playing skills of fringed stringed instruments and achieve a richer musical expression.

  As described above, when playing a stringed instrument with a fret, when moving the fingerboard from one fret to the fret before and after it while pushing the heel with a fingertip, the strong resistance that the fingertip hits the tip of the fret is skilled and skillful. I have overcome it. This imposes the restriction that the musical expression in the performance of a stringed instrument with frets hinders the smooth transition of the scale.

  For example, in classical guitars and jazz guitars, a chord change may be expressed by holding six strings with the left hand and sliding a few frets back and forth on the fingerboard. Even in such a case, if it can move smoothly on the fingerboard, the musical expression will be much richer.

  The point of the present invention that achieves the above-mentioned object is to transform the fingerboard of a stringed musical instrument with frets from a conventional flat plate into a curved surface having a smooth inclination toward the tip of the fret. Usually, the fingerboard and the fret are integrated by gently lifting the fingerboard toward the tip of the frets about 1 mm in height and connecting the fingerboard surface smoothly to the fret tip. If a mold is formed, the finger can be moved with almost no resistance while pressing the heel.

  A simpler means is to fix the fret itself shaped as a wave front part on the fingerboard. In this case, the fret itself also serves as a deformed portion of the fingerboard.

  This waveform deformed fret is shown in FIG. 6 as a comparison with a conventional fret (FIG. 5).

  As described above, the stringed musical instrument with a fret enables smooth movement from the fret of the finger holding the heel to the fret by deformation into a waveform in which the fingerboard and the fret are integrated. In this way, it will be possible to achieve a much improved performance technique and a richer musical expression. The target instruments are guitar, electric bass, ukulele, mandolin, banjo and so on.

  Furthermore, although not currently available, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, etc., will be new stringed instruments that can be used to express music that is quite different from the conventional ones, if they have corrugated frets with deformed fingerboards.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  1 to 4 relate to a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a corresponding portion (neck portion) of a fretted stringed instrument before carrying out the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a side view, FIG. 3 shows the best mode of the portion when the present invention is implemented, and FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a corrugated fret including a deformed portion of the fingerboard after the implementation of the present invention.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a neck portion of a guitar as a representative of a stringed musical instrument with frets, and shows a state in which six heels 3 are stretched on a fingerboard 1. 2 is a fret.

  Figure 2 shows the neck from the side, with the collar removed. Each fret 4 rises vertically from the fingerboard 5 and its height is about 1 mm. The fingerboard 5 is almost flat, and if a finger is placed on the fingerboard 5 and moved on it, it will hit the fret and it will be difficult to move between the frets 4 smoothly and agile unless skillful.

  FIG. 3 is a side view of a portion of the finger plate 7 when the finger plate 7 is joined with a smooth curved surface from the surface of the finger plate 7 to the upper tip 6 of the fret according to the embodiment of the present invention. When you move your finger on the fingerboard, there is no strong resistance and you can move smoothly from fret to fret even with a heel. This is due to the fact that the deformed part 8 of the fretboard shown in black shade is applied.

  FIG. 4 shows an enlarged view of the deformed portion 8 of FIG. Here, 絃 8 is also drawn. It is fairly easy to move your finger from side to side by pressing your finger against the corrugated fret.

  With a guitar with this waveform fret, for example, when the finger was moved from the 1st fret to the 4th fret of the 3rd rod, a very smooth sound movement from scale so to scale so sharp was obtained.

  Similarly for chords, the chords can be advanced with a very smooth transition in the “high chord”.

  The transition of a finger on a fret is not just a transition to the next fret, but the effect of this waveform fret is greater when there are several frets in succession.

  Corrugated frets can be applied not only to fret stringed instruments such as guitars, electric guitars, ukuleles, mandolin, banjos, but also to violin, viola, cello, contrabass, etc. that are currently not freted, There is a possibility of creating a new way of playing these fretless stringed instruments and creating an unprecedented musical expression.

It is an external appearance perspective view of the neck part of the stringed instrument (the guitar as the representative) with the conventional fingerboard and fret before implementing this invention. The lower diagonal curve shows the back side of the neck. It is a side view for demonstrating the fingerboard of a conventional stringed instrument, the shape of a fret, and the relationship between both. FIG. 3 is a side view of a neck of a stringed instrument with corrugated frets as a best mode for carrying out the invention, shown in comparison with FIG. FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the waveform fret shown in FIG. It is an enlarged view of the state which fixed the shape of the conventional fret on the conventional fingerboard. The hatched portion is a conventional fret. FIG. 6 is an enlarged view when the conventional frets shown in FIG. 5 are replaced with corrugated integrated frets. The hatched portion is a corrugated integrated fret.

Explanation of symbols

1 Fingerboard
2 frets
3 絃
4 frets
5 Fingerboard
6 frets
7 Flat part of the fingerboard
8 Deformed part of the fingerboard (black part)
9 絃
10 Fret tip
11 Deformed parts of the fingerboard
12 Flat part of the fingerboard
13 Conventional frets
14 Conventional fingerboard
15 Corrugated integrated frets
16 Conventional fingerboard

Claims (4)

  A corrugated fretboard and frets that are smoothly joined, with corrugated fingerboards and frets that are integrated with wood or solid goods instead of them.   The corrugated fingerboard is a corrugated fret obtained by attaching a corrugated deformed portion formed of wood or a solid article instead of a conventional flat fingerboard and joining the frets to the fret without any step.   The corrugated fingerboard is a corrugated fret in which a corrugated fret formed of a metal with a fret itself is attached to a flat fingerboard.   A mixed corrugated fret combining claim 2 or claim 2 and claim 3 depending on the location on the fingerboard.

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