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EP1913575B1
EP1913575B1 EP07802994A EP07802994A EP1913575B1 EP 1913575 B1 EP1913575 B1 EP 1913575B1 EP 07802994 A EP07802994 A EP 07802994A EP 07802994 A EP07802994 A EP 07802994A EP 1913575 B1 EP1913575 B1 EP 1913575B1
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    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10C—PIANOS, HARPSICHORDS, SPINETS OR SIMILAR STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WITH ONE OR MORE KEYBOARDS
    • G10C1/00—General design of pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards
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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 method for improving the sound of musical instruments. It relates in particular to a method for reducing the transmission of sound between components of musical instruments. Finally, the invention also provides a novel musical instrument.
  • the term "passive area" of a musical instrument is to be understood as meaning those components or areas of components which are not directly required for sound generation. Examples of such components are e.g. in the case of a grand piano or grand piano, the cast plate on which the strings are stretched, the neck of a violin, the timpani on which the membrane is mounted, etc.
  • the "active region" of a musical instrument in the sense of this invention is to be understood as meaning those components of components which are directly required for the production of sound, e.g. the strings of a piano / grand piano or a violin, the reed of a clarinet, etc.
  • a primary sound event is one generated by the vibrations of the components of the active area of a component is triggered, in other words, that is actually in the foreground for the sound of the musical instrument wanted sound event.
  • a secondary sound event the sound event generated by vibrations or vibrations of the components of the passive range of the musical instrument is here understood, which co-determines the overall sound by superposition with the primary sound event.
  • the soundboard 13 is sound conducting with the rest of the body (wing frame 6 and wall 7), and in this way connected to all components of the instrument. This means that all parts of the instrument by the primary sound event, ie by the vibrations of the active area, consisting of strings, bridge 14 and sound board 13, are stimulated to resonate.
  • Noise e.g. caused by moving keys and mechanical parts, have been and are regularly fought only where they arise.
  • Classic measures to reduce mechanical noise are the use of softer or thicker felt buffers, softer or thicker leather upholstery or similar. The remaining residual sound is considered an inevitable part of the sound.
  • a wing e.g. the main function of the chair bottom 9 (game table) ensuring a dimensionally stable support for the play mechanism.
  • Static aspects dominate the various versions, the unwanted amplification of mechanical noise (or rather their prevention) has so far played no role.
  • the dimensional stability of the plate surface characterizes the layer structure in order to obtain a good basis for the highly polished polyester lacquer.
  • the secondary sound radiation of a sonic coupled to the rest of the instrument and therefore stimulated to resonate lid played so far in the layer structure is not important.
  • Analog uses the GB 2285848 Loosely inserted, resilient materials with thin lips to dampen vibration of the return springs in brass instruments.
  • a trumpet In the US 59204 a trumpet is shown in which is placed in a clamp connection between a pipe carrying the mouthpiece and the valves and a tube containing the sound outlet funnel elastic material (eg rubber) between.
  • a sound outlet funnel elastic material eg rubber
  • the object of the invention is therefore, in order to achieve a significant improvement of the sound of musical instruments, to provide a method by which the disturbing influence of secondary sound events, which are generated by within the musical instrument forwarded between different components sound conduction, to reduce the primary sound event ,
  • the kinetic decoupling is thus achieved by the targeted use of materials with a sound velocity that is significantly lower than the airborne sound velocity of 340 m / s, in particular with a sound velocity of less than 150 m / s and with a density of more than 2.4 g / cm 3 .
  • the material used for the kinetic decoupling must always have a lower speed of sound than the components to be decoupled from each other.
  • the present invention describes concrete measures and the use of certain materials that cause the primary sound event is radiated undistorted and unadulterated by interference by the introduction of the sound energy in the components, their Mitschwingen and sound radiation is not required or desired, is reduced by decoupling to a minimum.
  • sound events emanating from secondary sound sources e.g., key and mechanical noises
  • the inventive kinetic decoupling of the components by interposition of the sound propagation preventing material causes a limitation of the original, caused by the primary vibrator primary sound event to a clearly defined local area, the This context should be referred to as the active area with the active components.
  • Opposite are the passive components and components of a musical instrument. In contrast to the sound-generating, active area, the range of these passive components should be referred to as a passive area, since passive components and components have to fulfill other functions (statics, type of play, optics, etc.).
  • the kinetic decoupling effected according to the invention therefore means that there is no transition of the primary sound event from the active area into the other, passive areas of the instrument. Furthermore, in a set up on the floor of the respective room (concert hall, podium and the like) instruments the acoustic coupling of the instrument via the feet, rollers, supports or the like is avoided to the ground. Also, such components of a musical instrument, in which the desired sound disturbing sound events are basically generated (eg mechanical noises in the gaming table of a grand piano or piano), are isolated from the remaining components sonically, to the radiation of the disturbing sound event and thus its influence on the overall sound of Minimize instrument.
  • the desired sound disturbing sound events are basically generated (eg mechanical noises in the gaming table of a grand piano or piano)
  • a suitable material for the kinetic decoupling in the context of the invention is a flexible heavy plastic mat with inorganic fillers, as offered by the company Stankiewicz GmbH in Adelheidsdorf, Germany under the name "Bary-X", called a speed of sound of about 60 m / s and at 3 mm thickness has a basis weight of 8 kg / m 2 (or at 6 mm thickness 16 kg / m 2 ).
  • Bary-X has a density of between 2.45 g / cm 3 and 2.7 g / cm 3 and thus a sound characteristic impedance between approximately 147000 Ns / m 3 and approximately 162 000 Ns / m 3 .
  • Such a plate may e.g. be inserted (for example, glued) at a joint between an active and a passive component at a piano or wing, in order to achieve a complete kinetic decoupling of the respective components or areas.
  • a specified as in a variant of claim 4 inventive use of a sound propagation-suppressing material in an intermediate layer in a multi-layer structure of a component of a musical instrument leads to an "acoustic immobilization" of the same.
  • This means that the component is neither excited by the instrument body initiated, nor by incoming airborne sound to natural vibrations and can not trigger the primary sound event disturbing secondary sound event.
  • such a structure for the lid of a Wing are selected to prevent its fundamentally disturbing resonance.
  • Fig. 1 a three-dimensional representation of a grand piano as a possible musical instrument for applying the method according to the invention
  • Fig. 2 a representation of the corpus of in Fig. 1 wing shown
  • Fig. 3 in a sectional view, a possible constructive variant for decoupling the soundboard from the body
  • FIG. 4 in a representation analogous to Fig. 3 a constructive variant with intermediate soundboard bearing
  • FIG. 5 in a representation analogous to Fig. 3 a constructive possibility for decoupling a connecting element
  • Fig. 6 in a schematic representation of a constructive way to decouple the game table from the other body
  • Fig. 7 a possibility of decoupling the chair bottom according to the invention from the other housing in a multi-layered construction.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 a wing or insulated body is shown as a possible musical instrument for the application of the method according to the invention.
  • the wing consists of a central main component, the rim, consisting of the wall 7 and the frame 6, which is placed on feet 10 with rollers 11 arranged thereon and closed with a lid 8 on the top.
  • the underside of the chair bottom or game table 9 At the front of the rim is the underside of the chair bottom or game table 9, on which there is needed for striking the strings game, consisting of a keyboard (keyboard) and a mechanism.
  • sound board 13 usually made of spruce, with overlying cast plate 5, usually made of gray cast iron, on which the strings are spanned, and underlying, the body stiffening struts.
  • the connection between struts and cast plate 5 consists of a box angle 4, the connection of strings and sound board 13 takes place through the firmly connected to the soundboard 13 web 14.
  • the music stand 12th In the front upper part of the wing is the music stand 12th
  • the primary sound event i. the desired sound event is used for pianos and grand pianos, for example. generated by vibrating strings transmitted through the bridge 14 on the sound board 13 and reinforced by this.
  • the active area for pianos and grand pianos consists of the strings, the bars 14 and the soundboard 13 together with all its other components (ribs, transverse and edge reinforcements, etc.).
  • the passive area is formed by all other components, i. from the instrument body (wall 7 and frame 6), the cast plate 5, the lid 8, the music stand 12, etc.
  • the inventive kinetic decoupling of the active region can be done on the example of the wing as a comprehensive storage of the soundboard 13.
  • the storage of the soundboard 13 can be done directly on a suitable material for decoupling 1 (see. Fig. 3 ) or by decoupling a portion of the frame 6, on which the soundboard 13 is glued (see. Fig. 4 ).
  • all connections, screws, dowels or other contact points between active and passive area in a sleeve (a "dowel") 3 are made of this material (see. Fig. 5 ) to achieve sufficient decoupling and to make a clear separation of active and passive area.
  • the string tension is taken up by a cast plate 5 on pianos and wings. Due to this function, the decoupling of string and cast plate 5 is not possible. However, because of this coupling sound energy from the string through the cast plate 5 can get into all other components of the instrument, the cast plate 5 must be decoupled from the remaining passive components of the wing (ie that at the casting plate 5 unwanted, but unavoidable sound event is also limited to the smallest possible local area). This is analogous to the procedure for decoupling the active region by comprehensive storage and embedding of the cast plate 5 in a material 1, which is suitable for kinetic decoupling (see. Fig.
  • the cast plate 5 and the plate edge screw 4 is not only decoupled from the soundboard 13, but also from the frame 6 and the wall 7). If the cast plate 5 in turn inseparably connected to other components (such as with the voice post 15), the decoupling takes place in each case at the next possible component in order to keep the sum of not mechanically decoupled components as small as possible (see Fig. 6 : Here, the decoupling between the vocal can 15 and wall 7 and frame 6 takes place, since decoupling of the cast plate 5 and the reed 15 is not possible for constructional reasons).
  • the chair bottom 9 (game table) is primary amplifier of the unwanted secondary sound event "mechanical noise", which is caused by the movement of the keys and the underlying mechanics.
  • mechanical noise For local limitation of this sound event, or to avoid the propagation of the sound energy of the mechanical noise in the entire instrument, a local limitation is made by the kinetic decoupling of the chair bottom 9 of frame 6, 7 wall and surrounding air through a multi-layered structure of the chair bottom in which one or more layers of the material 1 are inserted for decoupling (see Fig. 7 ).
  • Other possibilities for local limitation of the mechanical noise are by incorporating a material 1 for decoupling in the keyboard frame, by the storage of the mechanical frame or the keyboard frame on this material or similar. possible.
  • a mouthpiece such as Saxophone, clarinet, oboe and all instruments with kettle mouthpieces
  • a mouthpiece such as Saxophone, clarinet, oboe and all instruments with kettle mouthpieces
  • This action will cause the sound stream required and desired for the primary sound event to be amplified in the pipe by velocity transformation, but not to excite the housing material (i.e., body) of the wind instrument into secondary, interfering sound.
  • the frame and neck of the rest of the instrument in accordance with the invention can be kinetically decoupled (in cello and double bass and the leadership of the sting from the instrument and the lower end of the sting from the floor) to limit the primary sound event on the active part.
  • This procedure can be arbitrarily transferred to other musical instruments by identification and consistent kinetic decoupling of the required for the generation of the primary sound event, active range of an instrument of all components that have no immediate sonic functions, by means of the method claimed below.

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  1. Procédé de réduction de la transmission du son entre des composants d'instruments de musique, une couche intermédiaire en un matériau réduisant la transmission du son étant disposée aux points de jonction entre des composants, caractérisé en ce que ce matériau réduisant la transmission du son présente une densité d'au moins 2,0 g/cm3, en particulier supérieure à 2,4 g/cm3, et une vitesse du son inférieure à 150 m/s.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ce matériau réduisant la transmission du son présente une densité comprise entre 2,45 g/cm3 et 2,7 g/cm3.
  3. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le matériau réduisant la transmission du son est disposé aux points de jonction entre un composant équipé d'éléments mobiles mécaniquement et un composant contigu.
  4. Utilisation d'un matériau présentant une densité supérieure à 2,4 g/cm3 et une vitesse du son inférieure à 150 m/s dans au moins une couche intermédiaire pour une structure à plusieurs couches d'un composant d'un instrument de musique pour la position de repos acoustique de celui-ci et/ou comme couche intermédiaire aux points de jonction entre des composants d'un instrument de musique.
  5. Utilisation selon la revendication 4, caractérisée en ce que le matériau présente une densité comprise entre 2,45 g/cm3 et 2,7 g/cm3.
  6. Instrument de musique doté d'au moins deux composants, un matériau présentant une densité supérieure à 2,4 g/cm3 et une vitesse du son inférieure à 150 m/s étant intercalé aux points de jonction entre les composants.
  7. Instrument de musique selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que le matériau présente une densité comprise entre 2,45 g/cm3 et 2,7 g/cm3.
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