EP1745461A1 - Device and method for automatically tuning a stringed instrument, particularly a guitar - Google Patents
Device and method for automatically tuning a stringed instrument, particularly a guitarInfo
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- EP1745461A1 EP1745461A1 EP05701037A EP05701037A EP1745461A1 EP 1745461 A1 EP1745461 A1 EP 1745461A1 EP 05701037 A EP05701037 A EP 05701037A EP 05701037 A EP05701037 A EP 05701037A EP 1745461 A1 EP1745461 A1 EP 1745461A1
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a device for automatically tuning a string instrument according to the preamble of claim 1. It also relates to a method for automatically tuning a string instrument according to the preamble of claim 11.
- Tuning instruments generally requires a lot of time in addition to practiced hearing, which has to be spent in particular by inexperienced, for example hobby instrumentalists.
- the musician works with a tuning fork, which sets the desired tone by striking and adjusts the pitch of the respective string by changing the string length or tension. By striking the string and tuning fork multiple times, the result is obtained adjusted until the desired tuning of the string is reached. The other strings are then tuned based on this tuning.
- the strings of the instruments were tuned regularly due to the resilience of the material the strings can also vary in length depending on the climatic conditions (a guitar string expands on the stage of a concert room with the heat and humid air compared to the conditions in the comparatively dry and cool practice room) is a common one Votes required. Even after opening new strings, they have to be tuned.
- the system is very much to be welcomed to the extent that it enables quick and automatic tuning and thus takes a lot of effort off the hands of inexperienced musicians as well as professionals.
- the system has a not inconsiderable disadvantage. Overall, it is large and chunky and requires considerable changes to the body of the guitar, which on the one hand have an impact on its acoustics (sound) and on the other hand on its handling (due to the changed weight). Apart from that, the look of the guitar is also changed in a not inconsiderable way.
- the invention is based on the problems described. It has the task of specifying a device which has been improved in this respect and which can be integrated into an instrument, in particular a guitar, with minimal influence on the sound properties and with as few and small elements as possible. Furthermore, a method for automatic tuning of a stringed instrument is to be specified which meets these requirements.
- Claims 2 to 10 and 12 to 15 contain advantageous developments of the device and the method.
- the main idea of the invention is to supply at least parts of the components of the device with the required voltage supply via one or more of the strings.
- the strings are designed to be conductive, they either consist of a conductive material or are wrapped and / or coated with such.
- components can be arranged on the head of the same without a voltage supply also having to be integrated there (for example in the form of a battery or its own supply connection).
- the voltage supply can be via the Body of the guitar fed and on the one or more guitar string (s) to the head.
- the components of the device are distributed on the instrument and a bus line bridges the distance along the length of the strings.
- a bus line bridges the distance along the length of the strings.
- the entire device is not arranged in the body.
- the head or neck also offers, if only a little, space for the (subtle) attachment of further components.
- the signal transmission via the bus line can, for example, take place via a conventional bus cable, but also wirelessly, for example via radio or infrared.
- the control signals between the control located on an instrument part and the at least one drive are preferably conducted via the strings serving as bus lines 3).
- the strings of stringed instruments consist in many cases of a conductive material (metal) or are wrapped in a thread from one. Alternatively, if the sound permits, they can be coated with a conductive material. This solution saves the use of additional cables that would have to be laid in the instrument body. In addition to the sound characteristics, the optics of the instrument are also retained. To ensure that if several strings are to be used as conductors, they are not electrically short-circuited to one another, elements over which the strings are guided together (e.g.
- the bridge on a guitar must be designed in such a way that they isolate the strings from each other.
- these elements can be made of a non-conductive material (for example ceramic) or coated with such, or other measures of the insulation must be taken (for example between ordered insulating washers etc.).
- the drive can be a motor, for example an electric motor, but it can also operate pneumatically or hydraulically.
- the instrument is an instrument that is electrically connected to an amplifier (e.g. an electric guitar)
- an already existing pickup of the instrument that is connected to the amplifier can be used as a (part of) the registration unit.
- An interface gives the possibility of feeding software into the device from the outside, even subsequently. Furthermore, various reference moods can be entered into the memory device via the interface in order to be able to tune the instrument according to different schemes.
- a configuration of the device as proposed in claim 6 allows the instrument to be tuned in strings.
- a drive can also be used as well, which can be switched by appropriate gears or similar devices for adjusting one string at a time.
- the result is a particularly compact structure. If the individual components are chosen to be as small as possible, they almost “disappear” in the overall impression of the instrument and do not disturb the musician when playing the instrument. In addition, it is not necessary to use external components when tuning the instrument, the musician can use his instrument practically anywhere and almost vote independently.
- a development of the device according to claim 8 results in a redundant system.
- the device can still be operated to tune the instrument even if a string is defective.
- the method according to claim 11 represents a solution to the above-mentioned object with regard to a method. It can preferably be operated with a device according to one of claims 1 to 10, but is not restricted to such a device.
- Claim 13 describes how preferably the strings of the instrument can be used as bus lines. This means that no separate cables or other means of transmission (radio, infrared) need to be installed. A processing of the first digital signal as required in a development of the method according to claim 14 can be useful in order to be able to reliably determine a pitch from this signal.
- the basic frequency (pitch) of the first digital signal is preferably determined with the aid of a mathematical frequency filter (claim 15).
- a mathematical frequency filter (claim 15).
- FFT Fast Fourier Transformation
- FIG. 1 is a schematic front view of an electric guitar as a possible application example of the invention
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic view of the electric guitar from FIG. 1 from behind
- FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the body of the electric guitar as shown in Fig. 3,
- Fig. 8 in four different views, the wing in the head of the guitar with the actuators and
- Fig. 9 is a schematic circuit diagram of a detector circuit for controlling a Tonadersfeung for the device for automatic tuning of the guitar.
- an electric guitar 1 is shown in various, partially enlarged views, which is provided with a device according to the invention.
- the electric guitar 1 can be roughly divided into the body 2, the bridge 3 and the head 4.
- the strings 6a- ⁇ f are attached to the body at the so-called tremolo system block 5 with their first ends (ball ends) and side by side over the Web 3 stretched to the head 4, where they are wound with their second ends on vertebrae 7 and are adjustably fixed.
- the pegs 7 are mechanically connected to wings 8, so that the string end can be wound onto or from the peg 7 by rotating the wing 8. This changes the tension or length of the string and tunes the guitar.
- FIG. 1 also shows a so-called pick guard 9, which is a type of cover plate and under which a space is created in the body 2 in which the electronics of the electric guitar 1 are arranged.
- a control chip belonging to the device according to the invention is arranged below this pick guard 9, which is indicated schematically in FIG. 2 by 10.
- actuators 11 acting on the head 4 of the electric guitar 1 are arranged on the mechanics of the wings 8, for example via a gear mechanism.
- the servomotors belong to the device according to the invention and are connected to the control chip 10 for actuation in a manner to be described later.
- the motors can rotate the pegs 7 and thus adjust the tension of the strings 6a to 6f.
- the electric guitar 1 is shown in another representation.
- the pickups 12 which are seated on the body 2 below the strings 6a to 6f and which convert the vibrations of the strings (and thus the sound produced by striking them) into an electrical signal.
- These pickups 12 also serve in a manner to be explained later as a component of the device according to the invention.
- potentiometer 13 is shown in these representations.
- electric guitars have several such potentiometers for adjusting the treble, bass and volume.
- the potentiometer 13 shown here is the volume control.
- This special controller is for integrating the device according to the invention into the electric guitar 1 not designed as a conventional potentiometer, but as a so-called push-pull potentiometer, which has an additional switching function.
- Figs. 5 and 6 is the tremolo system block 5 or riders 15 arranged thereon for guiding the string ends fixed in the tremolo system block 5.
- FIG. 6 it can be seen how the strings 6a to 6f are guided through bores 17 in the tremolo system block 15 and are held at the lower edge of the bores 17 with thickenings (ball ends) 18 arranged at their ends.
- an insulating sleeve 19 is inserted, which is provided on its edge protruding from the bore 17 with an outwardly facing collar.
- Conductive disks 20 are positioned between the collars of the sleeves 19 and the thickenings (ball ends) 18, which contact the thickenings (ball ends) 18 of the strings 6a to 6f. These disks are in turn connected to the lines 14 connected to the control chip 10 (shown here as 14a to 14f).
- the strings 6a to 6f of the electric guitar 1 consisting of a conductive metal or wrapped with a conductive metal thread are electrically connected to the control chip 10.
- FIGS. 5 (a) to 5 (d) show tab 15 attached.
- the pages run over these in the area of the 16 rider inserts.
- the rider insert shown enlarged in FIG. 5 (d) is converted into the rider shown in FIG. 5 (a) into that shown in FIG. 5 (a). recess shown on the right used. Since the riders 15 and the rider inserts 16 in an electric guitar 1 regularly consist of metal and thus of a conductive material, in order to avoid a short circuit between the strings electrically contacted via the lines 14, the rider inserts 16, via which the strings 6a run to 6f, be isolated from each other. For this purpose, the areas designated 21 in Fig. 5 (a) are isolated.
- FIGS. 7 (a) to 7 (d) once again show details of the head 4 of the electric guitar 1 with the components of the device according to the invention arranged thereon, FIG. 7 (d) showing an enlarged detail of the device shown in FIG. c) area marked with D.
- FIGS. 8 (a) to 8 (d) the mechanical units for adjusting the string tension consisting of the pegs 7, the wings 8 and the servomotors 11 are shown once again detached from the head 4. It can be seen that all of these units are seated on a common circuit board 22 which contains further control elements for controlling the servomotors 11.
- the strings are electrically connected to corresponding conductor tracks on the circuit board 22 via the metallic and thus conductive pegs 7.
- the device according to the invention for automatically tuning the electric guitar 1 works as follows:
- the system is activated by pulling the push-pull potentiometer 13.
- the system is activated by pulling the push-pull potentiometer 13.
- FIG. 9 a circuit shown in FIG. 9, which will be described below.
- the control chip 10 can now be given commands by striking one of the strings.
- the tones generated by striking the strings are converted by the pickups 12 into an electronic signal converted into a frequency in the control system.
- Certain preprogrammed commands are stored in the control and are called up at a frequency within a certain tolerance. In this way, the program for tuning one of the strings, e.g. B. the e-string 6f can be called. If the program is activated, the control chip loads a reference frequency for this string from a memory, which serves as the target frequency.
- the string is now struck again if necessary, the actual frequency is calculated from the signal converted by the pickups 12 in the control chip 10 and, via the strings used as bus lines, a signal to the circuit board 22 or via this to the corresponding servomotor 11 for adjusting the String tension sent to reach the target frequency.
- the control chip 10 monitors the change in frequency and sends a stop signal to the servo motor 11 when the target frequency is reached. In this way, all the strings can be tuned one after the other.
- a mathematical frequency filter is used as a routine for calculating the actual frequency from the electrical signal of the pickups, since this can calculate the frequency particularly quickly and reliably.
- control chip 10 can be given different frequency presets for the strings, depending on the type of tuning that is to be selected (for example, open tuning, etc.).
- the power supply for the circuit board 22 and the servomotors 11 is brought into the head 4 via two further strings, here the strings 6f (deep e-string) and 6e (a-string), so that a separate voltage source is not required there.
- the strings 6f and 6e are used for carry the tension chosen, since the deep e-string and the a-string are the thickest strings of the electric guitar 1 and therefore break the least.
- any two of them can be freely controlled by the control chip 10 as bus lines. In this way, the system is redundant and can also work with one or even two broken strings of strings 6a to 6d.
- Light-emitting diodes on the body 2 can indicate the state of the control chip 10 or the program sequence and thus simplify the handling of the device.
- a "brief instruction" can also be applied here, for example with the display, by striking which of the strings 6a to 6f in which tone which commands are called up.
- the frequencies assigned to the commands can be managed by the control chip 10 in such a way that they are adapted to the current tuning of the electric guitar, which means that the user must always strike the same string with the same handle to call up a command, regardless of how the guitar and thus the string is currently tuned.
- the system is supplied with voltage externally, specifically via the amplifier cable, with which the guitar is in any case electrically connected to an amplifier.
- the tonewire circuit shown in FIG. 9 continuously monitors the internal resistance of the electric guitar 1. This is high in the electric guitar 1 which is normally ready to play. If the musician now pulls the push-pull potentiometer 13, he couples the pickups 12 from the jack socket for the amplifier cable and thus from the amplifier and switches on the control chip 10. As a result, the internal resistance of the electric guitar 1 drops by at least a factor of 20. This recognizes the circuit and switches the amplifier cable on the one hand from that Amplifier, so that the electric guitar 1 can be "muted".
- the circuit switches a supply voltage, which it can obtain, for example, from the power supply unit of the amplifier, but also from an external power supply unit, to the amplifier cable. This voltage then becomes the controller 10 and fed via the strings 6e and 6f into the head 4.
- the device according to the invention can now work After the tuning or, for example, setting up the circuit or applying new data, the musician switches the push-pull potentiometer 13 back into position The internal resistance of the electric guitar 1 rises again due to the pickups 12 which are now connected to the amplifier cable again. This is recognized by the tonewire circuit according to FIG. 9 and passes the signals from the amplifier cable back onto the amplifier, and the musician can continue playing.
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EP05701037A EP1745461B1 (en) | 2004-05-13 | 2005-01-19 | Device and method for automatically tuning a stringed instrument, particularly a guitar |
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