US3479916A - Shoulder rests for stringed instruments - Google Patents

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US3479916A
US3479916A US611001A US3479916DA US3479916A US 3479916 A US3479916 A US 3479916A US 611001 A US611001 A US 611001A US 3479916D A US3479916D A US 3479916DA US 3479916 A US3479916 A US 3479916A
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    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10D—STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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  • the invention relates to a shoulder rest for a stringed instrument, more particularly a violin, which is to be clamped between the shoulder and the chin of a musician, and which can be clipped to the underside of the instrument and is resilient at the side directed to the ShOlllrleT/ or the shoulderside.
  • the object of this invention is to improve the movability of the arm against the shoulder on which the instrument rests and to provide an automatic adaptation of the shoulder rest to the individual shapes of the shoulders of the musician using the instrument.
  • the desired results are obtained by providing a shoulderside consisting of a stressable elastic band and more particularly a rest including a support which can be clipped to the underside of the instrument in the usual manner, but which is provided at the shoulder side with a more or less stressable elastic band, for instance of rubber, the width of which amounts to for instance 4-5 cm. and the thickness about 2 mm.
  • the thickness of the band is of course dependent upon the materials used and can vary within wide limits.
  • the band can be fixedly secured to a U- shaped band-support and at the other end it can be held after being passed around the support with the desired stress.
  • the stress of the band can thus be adjusted at will and can be adapted to the requirements of each particular musician.
  • Such shoulder rest adapts itself fully to the shape of the shoulder and enables, by the construction of the band, a fully fast position of the instrument.
  • the present shoulder rest consists of parts which can be foldable, so that the rest can be folded flat, if desired, and easily be packed into the instrument case and thus transported together with the instrument.
  • FIG. 1 is a side view of a shoulder rest according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary view on a larger scale of of the arrestation of the band of the shoulder rest
  • FIG. 3 is a view in side elevation on a larger scale of another embodiment of the shoulder rest according to the invention.
  • FIG. 3a is an end view from the right of FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the shoulder rest of FIG. 3, without the elastic band,
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a part of the shoulder rest of FIG. 3,
  • FIG. 6 is an end view from the left of the shoulder rest of FIG. 3,
  • FIG. 7 is an elevational view of another embodiment of a support of the shoulder rest
  • FIG. 7a is a view in cross-section on larger scale of a part according to FIG. 7,
  • FIG. 8 is a view of the elastic band for use with the shoulder rest according to the invention.
  • FIG. 9 is an elevational view of a variant of FIG. 7.
  • FIG. 1 the body of the stringed instrument is indicated by reference numeral 1 and a bracket 2 of the proper shoulder rest is secured to the body.
  • This bracket carries a broad band 3 and the configuration thereof is clearly illustrated in FIG. 8.
  • the band 3 is attached at one end 4 to the bracket 2 and at the other end is detachably attached to a connecting plate 5.
  • This detachable connection (FIG. 2) is obtained in that the bracket 2 is substantially U-shaped at the end and the band 3 is inserted into the inner space of this U-shaped portion and is further filled with the press plate 5.
  • a second press plate 6 is provided, which can be pressed against the press plate 5 by means of an adjusting screw 7 thereby holding the band 3 in its clamped position.
  • pinching members known per se are provided, and are defined by resilient jaws provided with a protecting cover layer at their ends, and by means of which the proper bracket 2 and the body 1 are interconnected and held.
  • FIG. 3 another bracket construction is shown on an enlarged scale, with such construction also being held against the body 1 by the pinching members 8.
  • This construction mainly includes two rods 9 and 10, which are arranged approximately parallel to one another as appears in FIG. 4.
  • the two rods 9 and 10 are each fixed to substantially U-shaped connecting members 11 and 12 respectively, and the members 11 and 12 also carry the pinching members 8.
  • each of the connecting members 11 and 12 respectively appears clearly in FIG. 5, in which for the sake of clarity the joint of the rods 9 and 10 is not shown.
  • the connecting members 11 and 12 carry frames 13 and 14 which are journalled in apertures 15- and 16 in the legs of the connecting members 11 and 12.
  • the inward movements of the frames 13 and 14 are delimited by stop hooks 17 and 18 formed in the bent out legs of the U-shaped connecting members 11 and 12 as shown in FIG. 5.
  • the frames 13 and 14 can for instance, be of the type according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 6, that is to say that consist of the two U-shaped bows 19 and 22 which are interconnected by sleeve-shaped members 20 and 27, in each of which one end of the U-shaped bows 19 and 22 is fixedly inserted, so that a generally rectangular closed frame is obtained.
  • the end frame 13 it is also possible to form the end frame 13 as a U-shaped frame, open at one lateral side, so that a looped end of the elastic band can be easily slid on the outer frame side.
  • the band 3 is attached in a manner shown clearly in FIG. 3.
  • the band 3 is in this case fixedly held at the end of the frame 14 in that the end portion 25 of the band is passed around the frame 14 and through the frame in such a manner that portions 26 and 27 are formed, which are pinched against the frame 14 by the stress of the band 3 per se and the friction between the band portions lying against one another.
  • the attachment to the frame 13 can, for instance, be defined by a loop formed by folding back of the band 3, for instance as shown at 28 in FIG. 8, and the loop end is welded or vulcanized to the inner side of the band 3.
  • the rods 9 and 10 are no longer formed as massive members, as shown in FIG. 4, but are slid telescopically into one another. More specifically, the rods 91) and 10b are provided with extensions 23 and 24 respectively of smaller diameter which can be introduced into tubular end portions of the rods 9a and 10a. In this manner, an adaptation of the frames to the several widths of the bodies or stringed instruments can be effected without any difliculty and, moreover, a good pinching and gripping of the shoulder rest around the instrument body is always automatically assured.
  • the rods 9 and 10 can have an arbitrary cross-sectional shape, but in addition to a round cross-section, a further particularly suitable cross-section is shown in FIG. 7a.
  • the rod 9a is not tubular, but is mainly of a C-shaped cross-section with inturned rims with the rod 9b having a corresponding C-shaped cross-section so that the two rods fit telescopically in one another.
  • the rods 9 and 10 have been shown as straight rods, but in the embodiment of FIG. 9, it is also possible to bend the rods 29 slightly according to the convex shape of the bottom of a stringed instrument so that the rods lie fully free from the bottom. Furthermore, in FIG. 9 it can be seen that the grip of the proper shoulder rest around the bottom of the body of the instrument can be effected with the intermediary of adequate felt pads 30 or like contact elements which possibly less hinder the resonance.
  • FIG. 1 the position and shape of the band 3 during use of the instrument is shown in dotted lines, that is to say that the musician can so far load the band, dependent of the stress adjusted for the band, and thereby it adapts itself to the several movements of the arm and also of the shoulder joint without influencing the holding and the position of the stringed instrument.
  • Several stress marks are provided on the narrow end portion of the band shown in FIG. 8.
  • a shoulder rest for attachment to the body of a stringed instrument held between the chin and the shoulder of the person playing the instrument comprising a stressable elastic band having opposite ends, bracket means afiixed to the bottom of the instrument body, and means for securing the opposite ends of the elastic band to the bracket means with the elastic band automatically adapting to the shape of the shoulder of the person.
  • said securing means includes a frame for each end of the elastic band, means operably related to the frame for fixedly securing one end of the band to one of the frames and means adjustably connecting the other end of the band to the other frame.
  • each frame includes two U-shaped elements and sleeves interconnecting the legs of said two U-shaped elements.

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US4386548A (en) * 1980-04-09 1983-06-07 Wilhelm Wolf Shoulder rest for a string instrument
US4506582A (en) * 1984-05-30 1985-03-26 Shar Products Company Shoulder support for violin or viola
US5275078A (en) * 1991-04-10 1994-01-04 Wilhelm Wolf Shoulder rest for stringed musical instruments
US5377573A (en) * 1994-03-02 1995-01-03 Tretick; Stephanie Shoulder pad for violin and viola
DE19500066A1 (de) * 1994-01-10 1995-07-13 Kun Shoulder Rest Inc Schulterstütze für Violinen
US7531727B2 (en) 2005-12-30 2009-05-12 Buttemer Evan D Chin rest for musical instrument
WO2010115512A3 (en) * 2009-04-01 2011-08-11 Kenneth Gordon Johnson Shoulder rest
US20120137853A1 (en) * 2007-08-10 2012-06-07 Gustav Pirazzi & Comp. Kg Adapter piece
USD717366S1 (en) 2011-04-29 2014-11-11 Gustav Pirazzi & Comp. Kg Shoulder rest for stringed instrument
US9117424B2 (en) * 2012-10-30 2015-08-25 Albert Ivan Stern Multilayer article that provides cushioning
US20210295804A1 (en) * 2020-03-18 2021-09-23 Chyh-Hong Chern Accessory assembly for string instrument and string instrument

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US2575569A (en) * 1947-11-07 1951-11-20 Ungh Elgard Malvin Violin support
US2747452A (en) * 1952-10-22 1956-05-29 Goldberger Erno Meir Shoulder rest for violins

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US4386548A (en) * 1980-04-09 1983-06-07 Wilhelm Wolf Shoulder rest for a string instrument
US4506582A (en) * 1984-05-30 1985-03-26 Shar Products Company Shoulder support for violin or viola
US5275078A (en) * 1991-04-10 1994-01-04 Wilhelm Wolf Shoulder rest for stringed musical instruments
DE19500066A1 (de) * 1994-01-10 1995-07-13 Kun Shoulder Rest Inc Schulterstütze für Violinen
DE19500066C2 (de) * 1994-01-10 1998-04-02 Kun Shoulder Rest Inc Schulterstütze für Violinen
US5377573A (en) * 1994-03-02 1995-01-03 Tretick; Stephanie Shoulder pad for violin and viola
US7531727B2 (en) 2005-12-30 2009-05-12 Buttemer Evan D Chin rest for musical instrument
US20120137853A1 (en) * 2007-08-10 2012-06-07 Gustav Pirazzi & Comp. Kg Adapter piece
US8618392B2 (en) * 2007-08-10 2013-12-31 Gustav Pirazzi & Comp. Kg Adapter piece
US20120011982A1 (en) * 2009-04-01 2012-01-19 Kenneth Gordon Johnson Shoulder rest
CN102334155A (zh) * 2009-04-01 2012-01-25 纯声有限公司 肩托
JP2012523011A (ja) * 2009-04-01 2012-09-27 ピュア アコースティック リミテッド 肩当て
US8492629B2 (en) * 2009-04-01 2013-07-23 Pure Acoustic Ltd. Shoulder rest
CN102334155B (zh) * 2009-04-01 2013-08-14 纯声有限公司 肩托
WO2010115512A3 (en) * 2009-04-01 2011-08-11 Kenneth Gordon Johnson Shoulder rest
USD717366S1 (en) 2011-04-29 2014-11-11 Gustav Pirazzi & Comp. Kg Shoulder rest for stringed instrument
US9117424B2 (en) * 2012-10-30 2015-08-25 Albert Ivan Stern Multilayer article that provides cushioning
US20210295804A1 (en) * 2020-03-18 2021-09-23 Chyh-Hong Chern Accessory assembly for string instrument and string instrument
US11205406B2 (en) * 2020-03-18 2021-12-21 Chyh-Hong Chern Accessory assembly for string instrument and string instrument

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