CN219267294U - Automatic tuning ware and guitar that has it - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides an automatic tuning device and a guitar with the same, wherein the automatic tuning device is used for automatically adjusting strings through buttons of a stringed instrument, the automatic tuning device comprises a main body and a pickup, the main body is provided with a circuit board and a plurality of motors, the pickup is connected with the circuit board through signals and is used for sending signals generated by collected string sounds to the circuit board, the circuit board is electrically connected with the plurality of motors and is used for generating control instructions according to signal processing and controlling one or the plurality of motors to rotate based on the control instructions, and the buttons are driven to rotate so as to adjust tightness of the strings, so that vibration frequency of the strings is close to standard vibration frequency. The automatic tuning machine solves the problem that tuning of the stringed instrument is required to be adjusted manually, and can adjust a plurality of strings at one time, so that the use experience of a user is greatly optimized, and meanwhile, the strings of the stringed instrument can be adjusted in the playing process conveniently.

Description

Automatic tuning ware and guitar that has it

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of tuning of stringed instruments, and particularly relates to an automatic tuning device and a guitar with the same.

Background

Stringed instruments are an important branch of instruments, and soft and listening is a common feature of all stringed instruments in classical as well as modern music, almost all the lyrics are played by the string sounds. The tone color of the string instrument is uniform, and the string instrument has multi-level expressive force: surge is high during ensemble, and the solo is gentle and restrained; but also has flexible colors because of rich and varied bow methods.

The buttons of the stringed musical instrument are parts for fixing strings and tuning, and the tuning speed and accuracy can be greatly affected. The user needs to adjust the buttons in a manual adjustment mode, but the manual adjustment accuracy is not high, taking a guitar as an example, the guitar is provided with six strings, each string is correspondingly connected with one button, and sometimes a plurality of buttons can be needed to be adjusted, and the adjustment is troublesome. In addition, if tuning is required during the playing process, the playing must be stopped, which affects the user experience and brings inconvenience to the user.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the defects in the prior art, the utility model provides an automatic tuning machine which is used for automatically adjusting strings through a string button of a string instrument and comprises a main body and a pickup, wherein the main body is provided with a circuit board and a plurality of motors;

the pickup is in signal connection with the circuit board and is used for sending signals generated by collecting the string sounds to the circuit board;

the circuit board is electrically connected with the motors, is used for generating control instructions according to the signals after processing, and controls one or more motors to rotate based on the control instructions, so that the string buttons are driven to rotate to adjust the tightness of strings, and the vibration frequency of the strings is close to the standard vibration frequency.

Further, the automatic tuning machine further includes a fixing portion provided to the main body for fixing the automatic tuning machine to a head of the stringed musical instrument.

Specifically, the main body comprises a shell and a cover plate, the motor is arranged on the same side or two sides of the shell and corresponds to the string button in position, and the circuit board is arranged inside the shell and is closed by the cover plate.

Preferably, the cover plate is provided with a groove corresponding to the motor, and the groove is used for limiting the cover plate through the string button.

Further, the automatic tuning machine further comprises a battery, wherein the battery is arranged inside the shell and is sealed by the cover plate and used for supplying power to the circuit board and the motor.

Further, the automatic tuning machine further comprises a display screen, wherein the display screen is electrically connected with the circuit board and used for displaying the vibration frequency of each string.

Specifically, the fixing portion includes a fixing clip that fixedly connects the tuning machine with the stringed instrument by being clamped to a head of the stringed instrument.

Optionally, the pickup includes a microphone to pick up one or more of the string sounds; the microphone is connected with the circuit board.

Optionally, the pickup comprises multiple pickup modules, each pickup module correspondingly collects a vibration signal of one string, and different pickup modules correspondingly different strings; each pickup module is connected with the circuit board.

Preferably, the pickup is provided to the main body or the head.

The utility model also proposes a guitar provided with an automatic tuning machine as described above.

The utility model has at least the following beneficial effects:

the automatic tuning device provided by the utility model collects the sound emitted by the strings as tuning basis, and can automatically adjust a plurality of strings at the same time, so that a user does not need to tune in a manual mode, the automatic tuning device has higher precision than manual adjustment, and tuning can be performed in the process of playing a string instrument by the user, and the use experience of the user is optimized;

further, the structure of the automatic tuning machine provided by the utility model is matched with the head of the string instrument, so that the stability of the automatic tuning machine when connected with the string instrument is ensured, and the automatic tuning machine is provided with a display screen, so that a user can conveniently check tuning standards, states of the automatic tuning machine and the string instrument.

Therefore, the automatic tuning device and the guitar with the same provided by the utility model solve the problem that tuning of a stringed instrument is required to be adjusted manually, can be used for adjusting a plurality of strings at one time, greatly optimize the use experience of a user, and can be used for adjusting strings of the stringed instrument in the playing process more conveniently.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings that are needed in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and that other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the automatic tuning machine provided in example 1;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the automatic tuning machine according to example 1 at another angle;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an exploded construction of the automatic tuning machine provided in example 1;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of the structure of the automatic tuning machine according to embodiment 1 when the automatic tuning machine is mounted on the guitar head;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing the overall structure of the automatic tuning machine according to example 2;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an exploded construction of the automatic tuning machine provided in example 2;

fig. 7 is a schematic view showing the overall structure of the guitar provided in example 3 when provided with the automatic tuning machine provided in example 2.

Reference numerals:

1-a main body; 2-a fixing clip; 3-a head; 11-a circuit board; 12-an electric motor; 13-a battery; 14-a charging port; 15-a housing; 16-cover plate; 17-power button; 18-a display screen; 19-receiving a microphone; 151-a boss; 161-groove.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present utility model will be made clearly and fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is evident that the embodiments described are only some, but not all embodiments of the utility model. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the utility model without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the utility model.

Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present utility model will be described more fully. The utility model is capable of various embodiments and of modifications and variations therein. However, it should be understood that: there is no intention to limit the various embodiments of the utility model to the specific embodiments disclosed herein, but rather the utility model is to be understood to cover all modifications, equivalents, and/or alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the various embodiments of the utility model.

Hereinafter, the terms "comprises" or "comprising" as may be used in various embodiments of the present utility model indicate the presence of the disclosed functions, operations or elements, and are not limiting of the addition of one or more functions, operations or elements. Furthermore, as used in various embodiments of the utility model, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and their cognate terms are intended to refer to a particular feature, number, step, operation, element, component, or combination of the foregoing, and should not be interpreted as first excluding the existence of or increasing likelihood of one or more other features, numbers, steps, operations, elements, components, or combinations of the foregoing.

In various embodiments of the utility model, the expression "or" at least one of a or/and B "includes any or all combinations of the words listed simultaneously. For example, the expression "a or B" or "at least one of a or/and B" may include a, may include B or may include both a and B.

Expressions (such as "first", "second", etc.) used in the various embodiments of the utility model may modify various constituent elements in the various embodiments, but the respective constituent elements may not be limited. For example, the above description does not limit the order and/or importance of the elements. The above description is only intended to distinguish one element from another element. For example, the first user device and the second user device indicate different user devices, although both are user devices. For example, a first element could be termed a second element, and, similarly, a second element could be termed a first element, without departing from the scope of various embodiments of the present utility model.

It should be noted that: in the present utility model, unless explicitly specified and defined otherwise, terms such as "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium; may be a communication between the interiors of the two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present utility model can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to the specific circumstances.

In the present utility model, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the terms indicating an orientation or a positional relationship are based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are merely for convenience of description and simplicity of description, not to indicate or imply that the apparatus or elements referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the utility model.

The terminology used in the various embodiments of the utility model is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the various embodiments of the utility model. As used herein, the singular is intended to include the plural as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which various embodiments of the utility model belong. The terms (such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries) will be interpreted as having a meaning that is the same as the context of the relevant art and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein in connection with the various embodiments of the utility model.

Example 1

The embodiment provides an automatic tuning machine for adjust the string to the best position through the string button of string instrument is automatic, makes the user not need adjust the string button through manual adjustment's mode, has solved the problem that must manual regulation when need adjusting string elasticity of string instrument at every turn, and the automatic tuning machine that this embodiment provided can be adjusted string of string instrument in play the in-process, and comparatively convenient, and once can accomplish the regulation to many strings, has optimized user's use experience greatly.

The automatic tuning machine comprises a main body 1 and a pickup, wherein the main body 1 is provided with a circuit board 11 and a plurality of motors 12, the pickup is connected with the circuit board 11 through signals, the signals generated by collected string sounds are transmitted to the circuit board 11, the circuit board 11 is electrically connected with the plurality of motors 12, and is used for generating control instructions according to signal processing and controlling one or more motors 12 to rotate based on the control instructions, so that a string button is driven to rotate to adjust the tightness of strings, and the vibration frequency of the strings is close to a standard vibration frequency; the standard vibration frequency is preset by the user.

In this embodiment, the motors 12 are connected with buttons of the stringed musical instrument in one-to-one correspondence, taking a guitar with six strings as an example, the guitar is correspondingly provided with six buttons, and the six motors 12 of the automatic tuning device are connected with the six buttons in one-to-one correspondence.

Further, the automatic tuning machine further comprises a fixing portion, the fixing portion is arranged on the main body 1, the fixing portion and the main body 1 are integrally formed in the embodiment, and the automatic tuning machine is detachably connected with the guitar through the fixing portion.

In this embodiment, the fixing portion includes a fixing clip 2, and the circuit board 11 includes a PCBA board, and the automatic tuning machine is provided to the guitar by clamping the guitar head 3 with the fixing clip 2.

It should be noted that, the pickup is also called a monitor head, and is a device for collecting the sound of the field environment and transmitting the sound to the back-end device, and the pickup is composed of a microphone and an audio amplifying circuit, and is generally divided into a digital pickup and an analog pickup, where the digital pickup is a sound sensing device that converts an analog audio signal into a digital signal through a digital signal processing system and performs corresponding digital signal processing; the analog pick-up amplifies the sound collected by the microphone with a general analog circuit. Pickup products are generally classified into active and passive types, and vocal guitar and monitor pickup are classified according to performances.

Optionally, the pickup comprises a microphone, the microphone being connected to the circuit board 11 for picking up sound of one or more strings; after the microphone is adopted to collect the sound emitted by a plurality of strings simultaneously, the sound emitting frequency of the specific strings is identified through the tuner, the sound emitting frequency of each string is detected through higher-level computing capacity of the tuner, then the sound emitting frequency is compared with the preset standard sound emitting frequency, the motor 12 is controlled to rotate according to the comparison result, and the tightness of all the sounding strings is adjusted, so that the sound emitting frequency is close to the corresponding standard vibration frequency. After the microphone records the sound of the string vibration, the tone decoding chip in the circuit analyzes and calculates the string vibration frequency, and compares the string vibration frequency with the standard vibration frequency.

Optionally, the pickup comprises multiple pickup modules, each pickup module is used for correspondingly collecting vibration signals of one string, and different pickup modules are used for correspondingly different strings; each pickup module is connected to the circuit board 11. The multi-path pickup module in the embodiment comprises six paths of pickup, the six paths of pickup have the advantage of easily identifying which strings vibrate, the six paths of pickup are used for simultaneously collecting vibration signals of each string, meanwhile, the vibration signals of different strings are transmitted to the tone decoding chip for independent analysis and processing, the obtained vibration frequency data are compared with preset standard vibration frequency, and an adjusting instruction is sent to the corresponding motor 12 for string adjustment; the six-way pickup can be arranged on the body of the guitar.

Preferably, the pickup is arranged on the head 3 close to the automatic tuning machine body 1, and the pickup can be directly and electrically connected with the circuit board 11, so that information is not transmitted in a signal sending and receiving mode, and timeliness and stability of information transmission are guaranteed. Further, a sound pickup may be provided to the main body 1.

The circuit board 11 performs operation and sends instructions, and the motor 12 rotates and all needs to use electric energy, but if the automatic tuning ware needs to be connected with an external power supply for use, then must be connected with the external power supply through the power cord when playing guitar, and is comparatively troublesome, in order to solve this problem, preferably, the automatic tuning ware still includes battery 13, and battery 13 sets up inside main part 1, and the dismouting is comparatively troublesome when changing the battery, and battery 13 that uses in this embodiment is rechargeable battery, and shell 15 still is provided with charge port 14, connects external power supply through charge port 14 and can realize the charge to battery 13. Further, the battery 13 may also be used to power the pickup when the pickup is provided to the main body 1 or to the head 3 as with the automatic tuning machine.

Specifically, the main body 1 includes a casing 15 and a cover plate 16, in this embodiment, the motor 12 is symmetrically disposed at two sides of the casing 15, corresponding to the position of the guitar's button, and the battery 13 and the circuit board 11 are both disposed inside the casing 15 and are enclosed by the cover plate 16.

Preferably, the motor 12 is directly connected with the knob through the output shaft, so that synchronous coaxial rotation of the knob and the output shaft of the motor 12 is realized, and furthermore, the output shaft of the motor 12 can be in transmission connection with the knob through a transmission device and is based on the transmission device so as to drive the knob to rotate through rotation of the output shaft.

Further, the cover plate 16 is provided with a plurality of grooves 161 corresponding to the positions of the motor 12, so that the motor 12 is connected with the string buttons, and the cover plate 16 is limited through the string buttons, so that sliding does not occur when the automatic tuning machine is connected with the guitar. Further, the automatic tuning machine further includes a power button 17 for adjusting the switch, and the power button 17 is provided to the housing 15.

Preferably, the two sides of the housing 15 for setting the motor 12 are provided with the protruding parts 151, so that when the fixing part fixes the automatic tuning device to the guitar head 3, the main body of the head 3 can be disposed between the two protruding parts 151, and the buttons can be disposed in the grooves 161 of the cover plate 16, thereby enhancing the stability of the automatic tuning device when connected to the head 3.

Further, the main body 1 further includes a display 18, and the display 18 is electrically connected to the circuit board 11 for displaying various data information, such as vibration frequency information of each string, preset standard vibration frequency information and electric quantity information of the battery 13, and the electric energy required by the display 18 is also provided by the built-in battery 13 of the automatic tuning machine.

Example 2

To match a guitar with the string button positioned on one side, this embodiment provides another implementation of an automatic tuning machine, which also includes a main body 1 and a pickup, which includes a microphone 19.

Referring to fig. 5 and 6, unlike the automatic tuning machine according to embodiment 1, in this embodiment, the motor 12 of the automatic tuning machine is disposed on the same side of the housing 15, and the cover plate 16 is provided with a groove 161 corresponding to the position of the motor 12, so that the motor 12 is connected with the button, and the button limits the cover plate 16, so as to ensure that sliding does not occur when the automatic tuning machine is connected with the guitar.

In this embodiment, the fixing portion also includes a fixing clip 2, and the circuit board 11 includes a PCBA board, and the automatic tuning machine is provided to the guitar by clamping the guitar head 3 with the fixing clip 2. Further, the fixing clip 2 is provided on the opposite side of the housing 15 to the side on which the motor 12 is provided.

Preferably, a protruding portion 151 is disposed on one side of the housing 15 for setting the motor 12, so that when the fixing portion fixes the automatic tuning device to the guitar head 3, the protruding portion 151 can be combined with the fixing clip 2 to fix and limit the main body portion of the guitar head 3, and the button can be placed in the groove 161 of the cover plate 16, so that stability when the automatic tuning device is connected to the guitar head 3 is enhanced.

Example 3

This embodiment also proposes a guitar provided with an automatic tuning machine as set forth in embodiment 1 or embodiment 2, taking fig. 7 as an example, fig. 7 showing a guitar provided with an automatic tuning machine as set forth in embodiment 2, which is fixed to the head of the guitar by a holder.

In summary, the automatic tuning device and the guitar with the same provided by the utility model solve the problem that tuning of a stringed instrument is required to be adjusted manually, and can be used for adjusting a plurality of strings at one time, so that the use experience of a user is greatly optimized, and meanwhile, the strings of the stringed instrument can be adjusted conveniently and rapidly in the playing process.

The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the utility model is not intended to limit the utility model to the precise form disclosed, and any such modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the utility model are intended to be included within the scope of the utility model.

Claims (10)

1. An automatic tuning machine is characterized by comprising a main body and a pickup, wherein the main body is provided with a circuit board and a plurality of motors;

the pickup is in signal connection with the circuit board and is used for sending signals generated by collecting the string sounds to the circuit board;

the circuit board is electrically connected with the motors, is used for generating control instructions according to the signals after processing, and controls one or more motors to rotate based on the control instructions, so that the string buttons are driven to rotate to adjust the tightness of strings, and the vibration frequency of the strings is close to the standard vibration frequency.

2. The automatic tuning machine of claim 1, further comprising a securing portion provided to the body for securing the automatic tuning machine to a head of the stringed musical instrument.

3. The automatic tuning machine of claim 1, wherein the body comprises a housing and a cover plate, the motor is disposed on the same side or both sides of the housing and corresponds to the position of the button, and the circuit board is disposed inside the housing and is closed by the cover plate.

4. An automatic tuning machine as claimed in claim 3, wherein the cover plate is provided with a recess corresponding to the motor position for limiting the cover plate by the button.

5. The automatic tuning machine of claim 3, further comprising a battery disposed within the housing and enclosed by the cover plate for powering the circuit board and the motor.

6. The automatic tuning machine of claim 4, further comprising a display screen electrically connected to the circuit board for displaying the vibration frequency of each of the strings.

7. The tuning machine of claim 2, wherein the securing portion comprises a securing clip that fixedly connects the tuning machine to the stringed instrument by clamping to a head of the stringed instrument.

8. The automatic tuning machine of claim 1, wherein the pickup includes a microphone to pick up one or more of the string sounds; the microphone is connected with the circuit board.

9. The automatic tuning machine of claim 1, wherein the pickup comprises multiple pickup modules, each pickup module corresponding to picking up a vibration signal of a string, different pickup modules corresponding to different strings; each pickup module is connected with the circuit board.

10. A guitar, characterized in that an automatic tuning machine as claimed in any one of claims 1-9 is provided.

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