KR102671686B1 - Wind instruments mounting tone hole hardwood key button - Google Patents

Abstract

We present a wind instrument equipped with hardwood key buttons that are sufficiently hard, can easily produce anti-slip patterns of precise shapes, and do not generate cold air. The wind instrument includes a key button that contacts the player's finger in a keywork that combines a mouthpiece and controls the degree of opening and closing of the tone hole in a wind instrument that uses air as a vibrating body, and the key button is made of hardwood. .

Description

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The present invention relates to a wind instrument, and more specifically, to a wind instrument equipped with a hardwood key button, which is a cover of the tone hole, by applying hardwood to increase the effect of resonance and to ensure the convenience of the player.

A wind instrument is a musical instrument that is combined with a mouthpiece and the player makes a sound by putting his/her lips on the mouthpiece and blowing, and uses air as a vibrating body to make the sound. Wind instruments are traditionally divided into woodwinds such as clarinet, flute, and saxophone, and brass instruments such as trumpet, trombone, French horn, and tuba. There are many tone holes in the main body of the wind instrument, and each chord is played according to the opening and closing of the key work containing the key button. If the key button allows the performer to move and press the position quickly and accurately, it smoothens the performance and prevents fatigue and abnormal situations. If the key buttons are slippery, the player may not press them smoothly or the fingers may slip, causing incorrect notes. In addition, since the key buttons frequently collide with the player's fingers, they are hard enough to not change shape or wear out due to collision.

Domestic Public Utility Model No. 2009-0008323 forms an anti-slip pattern on the surface of a metal key button to prevent slipping. Although the above patent has an anti-slip pattern, the key button made of metal is cold in places with low ambient temperatures such as winter or cold areas, so it is not easy to use, and it is not easy to create an anti-slip pattern with a precise shape. U.S. Patent No. 7,563,970 implements a key button using ore, but the key button made of ore causes the fingers to slip due to the player's sweat in the summer, is cold like a metal material in the winter, and has a precisely shaped anti-slip pattern. difficult.

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a wind instrument equipped with hardwood key buttons that are sufficiently hard, can easily produce an anti-slip pattern of a precise shape, and do not generate cold air.

A wind instrument equipped with a hardwood key button to solve the problem of the present invention includes a key button that contacts the player's finger in the keywork that controls the opening and closing degree of the tone hole in the wind instrument that combines the mouthpiece and uses air as a vibrating body. Includes. At this time, the key button is made of hardwood.

In the wind instrument of the present invention, the hardwood includes seeds of tagua palms (phytelephas spp.), birch wood, ebony, rose wood, mayple wood, and ash. ) tree, walnut tree, cherry tree, linden tree or oak tree, the hardwood may be the seeds of tagua palms (phytelephas spp.) It can be. The key button may include an anti-slip pattern to prevent the player's fingers from slipping. The key button can be inserted into a button bracket.

According to the wind instrument equipped with the hardwood key button of the present invention, by using the key button made of hardwood, it is possible to easily produce an anti-slip pattern that is sufficiently hard and has a precise shape, and cold air does not appear.

1 is a perspective view showing a saxophone according to the present invention.
Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view for explaining the first key work of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is an exploded perspective view to explain the second key work according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings. The embodiments described below may be modified into various other forms, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described in detail below. Examples of the present invention are provided to more completely explain the present invention to those skilled in the art. In the drawing, the representation is exaggerated for convenience of explanation. Meanwhile, terms indicating location, such as top, bottom, front, etc., are only related to what is shown in the drawing. In practice, the wind instrument can be used in any optional orientation, and in actual use, the spatial direction changes depending on the direction and rotation of the wind instrument.

An embodiment of the present invention presents a wind instrument that is sufficiently hard, can easily produce an anti-slip pattern of a precise shape, and does not generate cold air, by utilizing key buttons made of hardwood. To this end, we will learn in detail about key buttons made of hardwood and explain the effects of the key buttons in detail. The key button of the present invention is applied to a wind instrument, which is a musical instrument in which a mouthpiece is combined, the player puts his/her lips on the mouthpiece and blows to make a sound, and air is used as a vibrating body to produce the sound. The wind instruments are traditionally divided into woodwinds such as clarinet, flute, and saxophone, and brass instruments such as trumpet, trombone, French horn, and tuba.

Here, the saxophone will be described as an example among the wind instruments. In the saxophone, a reed made of reed is fixed to the neck by a ligature, and when you blow while holding the mouthpiece, the vibration of the reed resonates through the neck and into the main pipe to generate sound. When you press a key arranged on the main tube of the saxophone, the length of the resonance of the main tube changes and the pitch of the sound is adjusted. The saxophone is divided into several types depending on the sound range, and five types of saxophones are mainly used: soprano, alto, tenor, bass, and baritone. There are many tone holes in the main body of the saxophone, and each chord is played according to the tone holes being opened and closed by the key button.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a saxophone 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. However, it is not a drawing in the strict sense, and there may be components not shown in the drawing for convenience of explanation.

According to Figure 1, the saxophone 100 includes a neck (10), a ring band (20), a booster (30), and a main tube (40). The neck 10 is a part that connects the mouthpiece 11 and the main pipe 40, and is made of metal in a typical curved shape. A mouthpiece 11 is connected to the neck 10, and the reed 12 is fixed to the mouthpiece 11 by a ligature 13. The mouthpiece 11 is the part that touches the player's lips, and may have different shapes depending on the type and product of the saxophone 100. The ligature 13 fixes the reed 12 using a cylindrical body and tightening screws, and the cylindrical shape has a shape that matches the mouthpiece 11. The ligature 13 can be made of any material that maintains rigidity, but a metal such as brass with even sound vibration is more preferable. The surface of the ligature 13 may be plated with gold or the like to prevent corrosion. The mouthpiece 11 is inserted into the connecting tube 14 and connected to the neck 10.

The reed 12 is a thin diaphragm that produces sound, and is coupled to the mouthpiece 11 to serve as a sound emitter. The reed 12 is mainly made of wood made from giant reed, a type of reed. The reed 12 makes different sounds depending on the wood grain, period of use, cutting method, etc. The reed 12 made of wood has the advantage of being able to produce a rich and beautiful sound due to the grain of the wood. However, the lead 12 made of wood has many limitations due to external environments such as shock and humidity and is difficult to manage. Recently, synthetic resin reeds 12 are used, although the sound is not as rich. The neck 10 and the main pipe 40 are fixed or separated using a ring band 20 in the form of a ring. A booster 30 is coupled to the ring band 20. The booster 30 improves the sound quality in the main tube 40 and allows the neck 10 and the main tube 40 to be easily combined regardless of the shape of the saxophone 100.

The main tube 40 is connected to the neck 10, and if the length of the saxophone 100 is too long, it is difficult to handle. Therefore, saxophones with low registers such as alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, and bass saxophone have the lower part of the tube U. Bend it into a ruler shape. In particular, the baritone saxophone and bass saxophone wind the upper part of the tube twice more to further reduce the length of the instrument. The first keywork (50) is connected to a plurality of tone holes (42), and the tone holes (42) are holes that can be closed or opened to adjust the pitch. At the end of the main pipe (40), there is a bell (41), which is a round trumpet-shaped hole. At this time, except for the first key work (50), the neck (10), mouthpiece (11), reed (12), ligature (13), connecting tube (14), ring band (20), booster (30) ), the main building 40, the tone hole 42, etc., all known ones within the scope of the present invention can be applied.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view for explaining the first key work 50 of FIG. 1. At this time, the saxophone will refer to Figure 1. Since the presented first keywork 50 is merely presented as an example, it may be modified in various ways within the scope of the present invention.

According to FIG. 2, the first key work 50 includes a first key button 51, a key rod 56, and a tone hole cover 57. The first key button 51 is supported by a button support 53, the button support 53 is inserted into the button insertion part 54, and the button support 53 is supported by a fixing part 55 such as a bolt. It is fixed. The key rod 56 connects the button insertion portion 54 and the tone hole cover 57. In the drawing, the button post 53 and the button insertion part 54 fixed by the fixing part 55 are presented as examples, and the shape and fixing method may vary depending on the size, shape and type of the saxophone 100. You can. The tone hole cover 57, together with the first key button 51, controls the degree of opening and closing of the tone hole 42. The first key button 51 includes an anti-slip pattern 52 to prevent slipping.

The first key button 51 is made of hardwood, and in some cases, the button support 53 may also be made of hardwood together with the first key button 51. Softwood and broadleaf wood are called softwood and hardwood, respectively, and hardwood is much sturdier and has a lower rate of expansion and contraction than softwood. Even when applied to the first key button 51, the hardwood presented in the present invention does not lack in rigidity and expansion/contraction ratio compared to commonly used metal or ore materials. In particular, it has excellent sturdiness and does not change shape or wear out even if it frequently collides with the performer's fingers. In addition, since the first key button 51 made of hardwood is made of wood, its thermal conductivity is lower than that of conventional metal or ore materials. If the thermal conductivity is low, the first key button 51 generates much less cold than a metal or ore material in a place with a low ambient temperature, such as in winter or a cold area.

The hardwood includes seeds of tagua palms, phytelephas spp., birch trees, ebony, rose wood, mayple trees, ash trees, and walnuts. Trees, cherry trees, linden trees and oak trees can be applied. Preferably, the seeds of the ivory palm tree, the ebony tree, the rosewood tree or the maple tree tree are used. More preferably, the seeds of the ivory palm tree are good.

The ivory palm tree is a monocotyledonous tree of the palm tree family, and utilizes the endosperm of the seed. The endosperm is milky white and hard, so it is used for billiard balls, etc. Because the birch tree has a dense and hard structure, it is applied to bats, red bean sprouts, mills, and mortars. The ebony is a hard, black wood obtained from various plants of the persimmon genus, especially the ebony tree. The structure is dense and hard, and has a soft luster when polished. The ebony is used for the black keys of pianos, bridges and bridge pins of guitars, fingerboards, pegs, chin rests, tailpieces, frogs, etc. of string instruments. The rosewood is strong, heavy, and shiny, so it is used for guitars, marimba, recorders, wood processing products, handles, furniture, and wooden floors.

The maple and ash trees are hard and have beautiful patterns, making them materials for high-quality bats, furniture materials, wooden floors in gyms and bowling alleys, musical instruments, and tennis rackets. The walnut tree is dense and hard, so it is used as a body material for various firearms. The cherry wood, blood tree, and oak wood are also dense and hard, so they can be applied to the first key button 51 of the present invention. Since the first key button 51 is frequently in contact with the performer's fingers, it must maintain rigidity and its contraction/expansion rate must be small since it is related to the resonance of the sound. In other words, the hardwood of the present invention was selected in consideration of the above technical ideas rather than through simple repeated experiments. In particular, ivory palm seeds are particularly hard, making them more suitable for the first key button 51.

The first key button 51 includes an elaborate anti-slip pattern 52. The anti-slip pattern 52 prevents the first key button 51 from being slippery, which prevents the performer from pressing the key button smoothly or making a mistake due to a finger slipping. Since the first key button 51 made of hardwood is wood, a precisely shaped anti-slip pattern can be produced relatively easily compared to metal or ore materials. Metal or ore requires precision processing such as a separate mold or CNC, but since the first key button 51 of the present invention is made of wood, elaborate patterns can be easily produced using a blade, laser, etc. In particular, since the anti-slip pattern 52 is formed on the first key button 51 made of wood, the tactile feel of the key button 51 of the player is better than that of metal or ore.

Figure 3 is an exploded perspective view to explain the second key work 60 according to an embodiment of the present invention. At this time, the saxophone will refer to Figure 1. The second keywork 60 is the same as the first keywork 50, except for the second key button 61 and the button bracket 62. Accordingly, detailed descriptions of the same reference numerals will be omitted.

According to Figure 3, the second key work 60 includes a second key button 61 and a button bracket 62. The second key button 61 is inserted into and fixed to the button bracket 62. The button bracket 62 is preferably integrated with the button support 53. When the second key button 61 is inserted into the button bracket 62, unlike the first key button 51, it is advantageous to integrate the button bracket 62 and the button support 53. Specifically, the portion of the first key button 51 connected to the button support 53 is weak, so the first key button 51 may be separated from the button support 53. The button bracket 62 can solve the problem of the first key button 51.

Above, the present invention has been described in detail with preferred embodiments, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. possible.

10; neck 11; mouthpiece
12; lead 13; ligature
14; connecting tube 20; ring band
30; Booster 40; Main building
41; Bell 42; tone hole
50, 60; 1st and 2nd keywork
51, 61; 1st and 2nd key buttons
52; Anti-slip pattern 53; Button Holder
54; Button insertion part 55; fixed part
56; Keyword 57; Tone hole cover

Claims (5)

In a keywork that combines a mouthpiece and controls the degree of opening and closing of the tone hole in a wind instrument that uses air as a vibrating body, it includes a key button that contacts the player's finger,
The key button is made of hardwood,
The hardwood is sturdier than the softwood and has a smaller expansion and contraction rate, and the hardwood is a wind instrument equipped with a hardwood key button, characterized in that the degree of coldness expressed is smaller than that of metal or ore materials. The method of claim 1, wherein the hardwood includes seeds of tagua palms (phytelephas spp.), birch trees, ebony, rose wood, mayple trees, and ash. A wind instrument equipped with hardwood key buttons, characterized in that they are selected from wood, walnut wood, cherry wood, linden wood, or oak wood. The wind instrument equipped with a hardwood key button according to claim 1, wherein the hardwood is a seed of ivory palms (phytelephas spp.). The wind instrument equipped with a hardwood key button according to claim 1, wherein the key button includes an anti-slip pattern to prevent the player's fingers from slipping. The wind instrument equipped with a hardwood key button according to claim 1, wherein the key button is inserted into a button bracket.

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