WO2015173445A1 - Diapason de guitare et d'instruments de musique analogues - Google Patents

Diapason de guitare et d'instruments de musique analogues Download PDF

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WO2015173445A1
WO2015173445A1 PCT/ES2015/070223 ES2015070223W WO2015173445A1 WO 2015173445 A1 WO2015173445 A1 WO 2015173445A1 ES 2015070223 W ES2015070223 W ES 2015070223W WO 2015173445 A1 WO2015173445 A1 WO 2015173445A1
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tuning fork
guitar
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Jose Mercader Arques
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G10D1/00—General design of stringed musical instruments
    • G10D1/04—Plucked or strummed string instruments, e.g. harps or lyres
    • G10D1/05—Plucked or strummed string instruments, e.g. harps or lyres with fret boards or fingerboards
    • G10D1/08—Guitars
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G10D3/00—Details of, or accessories for, stringed musical instruments, e.g. slide-bars
    • G10D3/06—Necks; Fingerboards, e.g. fret boards

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  • the present invention refers to a guitar fretboard with a configuration that is also valid for instruments of the family of plucked string, which facilitates and dramatically improves the execution of the eyebrows or eyebrows, with respect to the conventional fingerboard , without losing any of the conditions of the instrument to which it applies.
  • the guitar is a very popular instrument because it is present in many activities. It is a "simple” instrument because it is usually the 6 strings of its usual configuration that is manufactured both in series and handmade, and also, except special constructions, is a "cheap” instrument especially when you compare a basic with other less popular instruments .
  • the guitar has a mast, on this one a tuning fork (usually dark and preferably mahogany or hard wood, rosewood or other similar, even plastic materials) and in this diapason there are divisions or frets before which the string is pressed and produces a proportional reduction of the length of the string and allows the execution of the notes, of each of the semitones of a scale.
  • a tuning fork usually dark and preferably mahogany or hard wood, rosewood or other similar, even plastic materials
  • the masts have so far been configured in two different ways. Flat or straight in cross section, and curved, being the curve of regular arc of wide circumference. This is common in narrow neck guitars as well as the so-called “acoustic” and also electric, which share the shape of the neck and usually its radius of curvature.
  • the configuration of the fingers, and therefore of the index fingers is formed from the outside, a distal phalanx, which is the narrowest and shortest that the nail supports on the tissue of its dermis, a middle phalanx that it is somewhat longer, but significantly is not much thicker and a proximal phalanx, this one longer.
  • each of the fingers has digital fibrous sheaths and synovial sheaths.
  • the masts have in their diapason a surface of flat cross section or of cross section in convex form of wide circumference arc. radio.
  • this family of stringed instruments has its most severe strings in the upper part of the position in which they are strummed, which is oblique with respect to the body in which the rim or waist of the part corresponding to the sharp strings rests in the leg of the performer.
  • the eyebrows or eyebrows are arranged from the side of the tuning fork corresponding to the most acute strings, the tiples, and along the frets, so that a capo can cover two to six strings, from the most acute, -except for some strange case of intermediate capo- not being possible from the capo of the grave to the acute in these instruments.
  • ES 0 177 599 U that describes a configuration of molded frets to apply to guitars, evidently of very cheap construction. He applies them on a flat section fingerboard.
  • ES 0 218 881 U has internal strings that vibrate by sympathy and outer strings that ring.
  • ES 0 242 557 U represents an instrument in which the strings pass inside the box with the intention of improving their loudness.
  • ES 0 252 689 U has a floating tuning fork - flat - that does not touch the lid.
  • ES 1 031 583 U comprises a tuning fork extension by means of a displacement of the nut on a flat tuning fork.
  • ES 2 155 348 Bl presents a configuration in which the mast is made of carbon, which avoids bending of the wood of the mast. It has no diapason represented or described.
  • GR 2012 0 100 103 A presents a guitar that is double, when configured so that one part is a complete guitar, and at 180 ° another guitar complete with a new and different mast, integrated into one. Without mention on the fretboard.
  • the present invention consists of a tuning fork having in section, a configuration recessed in a part and along the same.
  • the fretboard is the part of the instrument where the strings are pressed before said frets.
  • This new tuning fork presents a recess in the corresponding area of the index finger, to the digital and synovial fibrous sheath that determines a recess or recess in the lower part of the proximal phalanx, so that this section becomes coincident with that more protruding portion. or thick finger. And with this the execution of eyebrows or eyebrows is favored.
  • the frets also adopt this lowered configuration of a part of the tuning fork.
  • each of the frets also has a descending shape in this part of the guitar that is also coincident with the bridge bone and with the nut or bone of the head of the mast.
  • the surface of the tuning fork is only slightly lowered, sufficient to accommodate the lower protruding part of the finger described and the fret designed to accommodate this recess. This reduction does not affect the execution in the instrument when a string is pressed before the fret, as it is enough to hold the string pressed to the fret.
  • the shaving must be repeated in all the aligned spaces that correspond to all the frets, in the way that is expressed in the drawings, so that the fretboard is instead of flat -or with regular curvature- of mixed form, flat in the scope approximate of the low strings, and lowered and descending in the approximate range of the triple strings. This can vary, being able to be the section lowered more or less broad, without varying the essence of the invented.
  • the edge of the tuning fork corresponding to the first tiple cord has its soft curved edge not prominent.
  • Figure 1 shows a schematic perspective view of a classical guitar
  • Figure 2 shows a sectional view of the neck of the guitar
  • Figure 3 shows a finger pressing the six strings in the tuning fork configuration of this invention.
  • the bridge bone which will adopt a shape similar to the bone of the nut, and in the same way a shape similar to the configuration of the tuning fork.
  • this configuration is fully suitable for set adapted to lutes, banjos, mandolins, thiorbas, bandurrias, as well as basses, three cubans, charangos, guitarrones, ukuleles, and so on.
  • the proposed invention consists of a tuning fork (2) for string instruments, such as a guitar.
  • the guitar comprises a mast (1) whose upper part is provided with a tuning fork, covering said mast on which the strings (5) vibrate when they are pressed.
  • the strings will be held in the mast (1), from the nut (4) located in the head of the mast, to the bridge bone in the box, whose distance when vanada will determine the frequency of vibration.
  • the strings are located at a certain height on the fretboard, increasing depending on their proximity to the soundboard, and somewhat higher the more serious the sound of the string, and are separated from the frets so that when you press a Rope on the fret, is free with respect to the following frets (those closest to the soundboard).
  • the tuning fork (2) comprises a set of transversal projections that constitute the frets (3), and which define distances that are smaller than the maximum distance described, and which determine the different vibration frequencies of each of the strings (5) depending on the tension of these strings.
  • the tuning of the instrument consists of giving each string the tension suitable for the sound to be adjusted to that of each musical note in question.
  • the mast (1) is grasped with one hand, the left hand in a right-handed person, so that the user's thumb is below said mast (1), while the rest of the fingers of the hand they remain above the strings (5), in conditions of pressing them against said tuning fork (2) in position proximal to the fret (3), to determine the different corresponding vibration frequencies, and therefore the sounds (musical notes) that they will be heard after being modulated.
  • the cross section of the tuning fork (2) has at least one portion with a recessed configuration, preferably curved, but unequal, with a higher side (that of the end of the fingers) and the opposite side (the closer to the palm of the hand) with a recess (6).
  • a mixed configuration is acceptable, straight in the part of the low notes, and lowered, curved or straight in the part of the acute notes, and always with the outer edge of the notes acute rounded.
  • the frets follow the same form that defines the fretboard.
  • the nut (4) adopts the same configuration, with a progressive recess, identical, in the same measure as that practiced in the tuning fork (2).
  • the bridge bone (9) will adopt a configuration with a progressive recess in the same measure as that practiced in the tuning fork (2) and in the nut (4).
  • the frets (7) are configured in the adapted or lowered downward form, so that in the position of each fret (7) in the nut (4) and in the bridge bone (9) ) keep the distance suitable for each string to the surface and the length of the tuning fork (2).
  • the pitch of the tuning fork is variable along the length of the mast (1), said recess being accentuated the closer to the bridge bone (9).
  • the bridge bone will adopt a different configuration than the nut (4).

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un diapason de guitare et d'instruments analogues, du type à installer sur le manche d'un instrument à cordes pincées et possédant habituellement des divisions correspondant à des demi-tons, fixes et incorporées audit diapason grâce à des rainures pratiquées à cet effet, les cordes aiguës étant normalement plus proches de la main de l'exécutant qui les presse que les cordes graves. L'invention se caractérise en ce que ledit diapason présente une forme dont au moins une partie de la section transversale est pourvue d'un évidement (6) à partir de l'une de ses extrémités, réduisant sa grosseur dans une zone voisine de la paume de la main de l'exécutant, correspondant aux cordes aiguës, par rapport à la partie opposée, conformément à la grosseur plus importante ou au bombement de la partie inférieure de la phalange proximale de l'index (8).
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FR456051A (fr) * 1913-03-27 1913-08-16 Henri Wagner Perfectionnement aux instruments de musique à archet
US1290177A (en) * 1916-08-25 1919-01-07 Samuel B Grimson Stringed musical instrument.
US3319504A (en) * 1966-10-06 1967-05-16 Orbra W Appleton Slanted finger board for stringed instruments
US4311078A (en) * 1980-04-14 1982-01-19 Frank Falgares Bow playable guitar
US5696337A (en) * 1996-02-13 1997-12-09 Hall; Charles R. Concave finger board for stringed instruments

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FR456051A (fr) * 1913-03-27 1913-08-16 Henri Wagner Perfectionnement aux instruments de musique à archet
US1290177A (en) * 1916-08-25 1919-01-07 Samuel B Grimson Stringed musical instrument.
US3319504A (en) * 1966-10-06 1967-05-16 Orbra W Appleton Slanted finger board for stringed instruments
US4311078A (en) * 1980-04-14 1982-01-19 Frank Falgares Bow playable guitar
US5696337A (en) * 1996-02-13 1997-12-09 Hall; Charles R. Concave finger board for stringed instruments

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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EP3438966A1 (fr) * 2017-08-01 2019-02-06 Taylor-Listug, Inc. Diapason de guitare

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