US3865005A - Wind musical instrument - Google Patents

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US3865005A
US3865005A US390351A US39035173A US3865005A US 3865005 A US3865005 A US 3865005A US 390351 A US390351 A US 390351A US 39035173 A US39035173 A US 39035173A US 3865005 A US3865005 A US 3865005A
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Robert Victor Carree
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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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    • G10D9/047—Valves; Valve controls for wood wind instruments

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  • a saxophone consists of a conical tube or body provided with a mouthpiece and formed with openings in its side over which shutters or stops are respectively applied. Each stop is carried by a lever mounted on the body. The other end of the lever terminates'in a key. By applying finger pressure to the key, the saxophonist removes the stop from its opening and obtains the desired sound.
  • the position of the keys, integral with their lever, is determined once and for all during manufacture of the instrument. It cannot be adapted to suit the particular hand technique of each individual saxophonist.
  • the lever itself can also be buckled during deformation of the key.
  • the object of the invention is to obviate all these disadvantages and to make it possible to produce an instrument of the saxophone type in which the deterioration in the adjustment of the stop on its orifice is avoided, the positions of the keys can be adjusted as required and the transfer of the finger from one key to an adjacent key is facilitated and can be carried out very quickly by sliding, the little finger always remaining in the vicinity of the adjacent edges of the keys.
  • the saxophone according to the invention comprises a key in contact with a stop lever and mounted for rotation about a shaft carried by the body of the instrument and parallel to the edge of the key adjacent another key.
  • the shaft is arranged at a distance from the adjacent edge, especially below the other key where it is protected against impact and, preferably, at a certain distance calculated on a line perpendicular to the median plane of the two keys which is parallel to the adjacent edges.
  • the lever arm of the finger which depresses the key is sufficiently long notto cause any fatigue, even if the finger is applied to that zone of the key closest to the adjacent edge.
  • the finger no longer has any need to move far from this edge. Accordingly, it remains very close to the other key. It is even possible for the finger no longer to have to be moved by translation by resting it on both keys at once and imparting solely a rotational movement to it, followed by a pushing movement towards one or other of the keys, depending on the sound required.
  • the other key is mounted symmetrically with respect to, and in the same way, as the first key.
  • the key is carried by a support engaged telescopically with a sleeve fixed to the body, the relative angular and/or engagement positions being maintained by a retaining means.
  • the key is mounted on the spindle or shaft by an arm whose fixing zone is near the adjacent edge of the key, so as to leave free the median or opposite zones furthest away from the other key which come into contact with the lever.
  • the zone defining the surface of contact between the key and the lever is with advantage slightly inclined along a radius of the circle described by the key about its axis of rotation so as to compensate for any misadjustment of the relative positions of the lever and key. Even if the lever is situated further away from the adjacent edges of the keys than intended, its displacement, perpendicularly of the body, under the pressure of the key remains substantially the same because the greatest displacement of that zone of the key in contact with the lever is compensated, clue to its greater distance away from the axis than intended, by the distance between this zone and the lever in its unintended position.
  • the saxophone shown in FIG. 1 comprises a body 1 provided with a mouthpiece 2 and formed with openings over which stops R mounted on levers L are applied.
  • the levers are operated by means of keys.
  • a lever is made up of a shaft 3 mounted on the body 1 through bearings 4, and of two arms 5 and 6 integral with the shaft.
  • the arm 5 carries a stop 7.
  • the angled arm 6 terminates beneath and comes into contact with a key 8.
  • the keys 8, 9 are mounted on the body 1 through a radial sleeve 12 which is fixed to the body and in which a grooved rod 13 (FIG. 4) telescopically engages.
  • a screw 14 screws into a radial thread 15 (FIG. 4) in the sleeve and its end is-accommodated in one of the grooves 16 of the rod 13 at the particular point in this groove selected by the saxophonist.
  • a plate 17 is fixed to the rod 13.
  • Two pairs of balls 18, 19 are fixed to the plate 17, forming bearings for two shafts 20 and 21, respectively, which are situated in a plane parallel to the axis of the body and which are integral with two arms 22 and 23, respectively, the end of one of which is fixed to the key 8 and the end of the other to the key 9.
  • the zone 24 where the arm 22 is fixed to the key 8 is close to the edge 10.
  • the zone 25 of contact with the arm 6 is inclined relative to the axis of the body 1 and moves away from it proportionally to its distance from the shaft 20. Accordingly, the zone 25 extends substantially in the extension of the arm 22, i.e., on a radius of the circle of rotation described by the key 8.
  • a spacer member 26 screws into a thread 27 in the arm 6 (FIG. 5).
  • the saxophonist unscrews the screw 14 and adjusts the penetration of the rod 13 into the sleeve 12 in dependence upon the required interval between the keys 8, 9 on the one hand and the body 1 on the other hand.
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 The comparative functions of conventional saxophones and the saxophone according to the invention are illustrated in FIGS. 6 and 7.
  • FIGS. 6A and 7A the saxophonist is not depressing either of the keys 8, 9, whilst in FIGS. 68 and 7B he has depressed the key 8 and is preparing to depress the key 9.
  • the contact zone 25 has been depressed through a distance D to release the stop from the orifice.
  • the edge 10 of the key although moved slightly away from the key 9, has remained at substantially the same level as the key 9 due to the rotation of the key 8 about the shaft 20 parallel to the edge 10.
  • the saxophonist is able to slide his finger easily from one key 8 to the other key 9'because, since the shaft 20 is remote from the adjacent edge of thekey 8, his finger is able to remain in the vicinity of this edge when it depresses the key 8. It remains close to the key 9 both in the horizontal and in the vertical direction so that it can be transferred to the key 9 through a simple rotational movement about its own axis.
  • a supporting structure for two keys positioned to be played by the same finger comprising:
  • first and second shafts mounted on said body for supporting first and second shafts, said shafts being mounted parallel to each other with the plane defined by said shafts being parallel to the axis of said body;
  • a second key connected to said second shaft by a second arm, said second key being located above said first shaft;
  • each of said keys having an edge facing the other key with both of said edges being positioned adjacent to one another and being located the same distance from said body;
  • first and second levers mounted on said body for rotation about third and fourth shafts, said first lever having one end connected to said first stop and a second end underlying said first key and adapted to be actuated by depression of said first key; and said second lever having one end connected to said second stop and a second end underlying said second key and adapted to be actuated by depression of said second key.
  • grooved rod integral with a plate supporting said first 5 ends in one of the grooves of the rod.

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US4250791A (en) * 1978-02-25 1981-02-17 Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha Key mechanism for musical wind instruments
US4328734A (en) * 1979-09-28 1982-05-11 Gebler James M Wind instrument key
WO1992010143A1 (en) * 1990-12-07 1992-06-25 Lyndon John Busch Simplified accessory drape for use by an anesthesia provider
US5299486A (en) * 1990-11-27 1994-04-05 Weril Instrumentos Musicais Ltd. Mounting arrangement for a key shaft in a musical instrument
US20060196342A1 (en) * 2004-12-16 2006-09-07 Cannonball Musical Instruments Brass instrument
US20070163421A1 (en) * 2006-01-17 2007-07-19 Cannonball Musical Instruments Wind instrument having a modified tone-rich surface
US20070245879A1 (en) * 2006-04-25 2007-10-25 K.H.S. Musical Instruments Co., Ltd. Height adjustable key assembly for a saxophone
US7563970B2 (en) 2004-12-16 2009-07-21 Cannonball Musical Instruments Woodwind instrument
US20150161972A1 (en) * 2013-12-11 2015-06-11 Yang Sherng Enterprise Co., Ltd. Key mechanism for a saxophone

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US2560083A (en) * 1949-11-05 1951-07-10 William S Bullock Saxophone

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4250791A (en) * 1978-02-25 1981-02-17 Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha Key mechanism for musical wind instruments
US4328734A (en) * 1979-09-28 1982-05-11 Gebler James M Wind instrument key
US5299486A (en) * 1990-11-27 1994-04-05 Weril Instrumentos Musicais Ltd. Mounting arrangement for a key shaft in a musical instrument
WO1992010143A1 (en) * 1990-12-07 1992-06-25 Lyndon John Busch Simplified accessory drape for use by an anesthesia provider
US7563970B2 (en) 2004-12-16 2009-07-21 Cannonball Musical Instruments Woodwind instrument
US20060196342A1 (en) * 2004-12-16 2006-09-07 Cannonball Musical Instruments Brass instrument
US7335831B2 (en) 2004-12-16 2008-02-26 Cannonball Musical Instruments Brass instrument
US20070163421A1 (en) * 2006-01-17 2007-07-19 Cannonball Musical Instruments Wind instrument having a modified tone-rich surface
US7439429B2 (en) 2006-01-17 2008-10-21 James Wood Wind instrument having a modified tone-rich surface
US20070245879A1 (en) * 2006-04-25 2007-10-25 K.H.S. Musical Instruments Co., Ltd. Height adjustable key assembly for a saxophone
US7544874B2 (en) * 2006-04-25 2009-06-09 K.H.S. Musical Instrument Co., Ltd. Height adjustable key assembly for a saxophone
US20150161972A1 (en) * 2013-12-11 2015-06-11 Yang Sherng Enterprise Co., Ltd. Key mechanism for a saxophone
US9058793B1 (en) * 2013-12-11 2015-06-16 Yang Sherng Enterprise Co., Ltd. Key mechanism for a saxophone

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