WO1989004107A1 - A pick-up system for musical instruments, in particular for bridges on stringed instruments, and instrument or instrument part comprising such a system - Google Patents

A pick-up system for musical instruments, in particular for bridges on stringed instruments, and instrument or instrument part comprising such a system Download PDF

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WO1989004107A1
WO1989004107A1 PCT/DK1988/000171 DK8800171W WO8904107A1 WO 1989004107 A1 WO1989004107 A1 WO 1989004107A1 DK 8800171 W DK8800171 W DK 8800171W WO 8904107 A1 WO8904107 A1 WO 8904107A1
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Helge Wahlgreen
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H3/00—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means
    • G10H3/12—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument
    • G10H3/14—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument using mechanically actuated vibrators with pick-up means
    • G10H3/18—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument using mechanically actuated vibrators with pick-up means using a string, e.g. electric guitar
    • G10H3/185—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument using mechanically actuated vibrators with pick-up means using a string, e.g. electric guitar in which the tones are picked up through the bridge structure
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H2220/00—Input/output interfacing specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2220/461—Transducers, i.e. details, positioning or use of assemblies to detect and convert mechanical vibrations or mechanical strains into an electrical signal, e.g. audio, trigger or control signal
    • G10H2220/465—Bridge-positioned, i.e. assembled to or attached with the bridge of a stringed musical instrument
    • G10H2220/475—Bridge-positioned, i.e. assembled to or attached with the bridge of a stringed musical instrument on the side, i.e. picking up vibrations from a side of the bridge
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H2220/00—Input/output interfacing specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2220/461—Transducers, i.e. details, positioning or use of assemblies to detect and convert mechanical vibrations or mechanical strains into an electrical signal, e.g. audio, trigger or control signal
    • G10H2220/465—Bridge-positioned, i.e. assembled to or attached with the bridge of a stringed musical instrument
    • G10H2220/485—One transducer per string, e.g. 6 transducers for a 6 string guitar
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H2220/00—Input/output interfacing specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2220/461—Transducers, i.e. details, positioning or use of assemblies to detect and convert mechanical vibrations or mechanical strains into an electrical signal, e.g. audio, trigger or control signal
    • G10H2220/525—Piezoelectric transducers for vibration sensing or vibration excitation in the audio range; Piezoelectric strain sensing, e.g. as key velocity sensor; Piezoelectric actuators, e.g. key actuation in response to a control voltage
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S84/00—Music
    • Y10S84/24—Piezoelectrical transducers

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  • a pick-up system for musical instruments in particular for bridges on stringed instruments, and instrument or instrument part comprising such a system.
  • the present invention relates to a pick-up system for acoustic devices such as musical instruments, in particular for mounting in connection with bridges on stringed instru ⁇ ments . It is well known that the vibrations of strings and in instrument cases may be detected by suitable microphones or transducers with a view to an electrically amplified sound reproduction, but it is also known, that hereby a certain number of problems arise concerning correct repro ⁇ duction of timbre and sound intensity relations among various local sound sources such as the individual strings of a multistring musical instrument.
  • Incorrectly detected inten ⁇ sity relations may, however, be corrected by selective atten ⁇ uation of the signals from the various transducers associated with the individual sound sources, but such electrical atten- uation in itself implies certain problems regarding necessary attenuation equipment, noise generation and interference phenomena in a parallel connected system of transducers.
  • a correct detection and reproduction of the timbre it is in no way given that this will be achiev- able by placing an otherwise excellent microphone at a pre ⁇ sumed suitable place of the instrument, as the timbre may well be determined or codetermined by sound waves which pass through or along the relevant instrument surface portion without revealing itself outwardly to the microphone.
  • the present invention is aimed at providing a pick-up system which distinguishes itself by such placeabilitv and adjustability that in a simple manner both a possibility of a purely acoustic attenuation of the signal to be detected and a possibility of an adjustment to an optimized reproduc- tion of the timbre of the instrument is achievable, and ac ⁇ cording to the invention this is achieved through the pick-up system being designed as indicated in the characterizing part of claim 1.
  • the microphone or microphones are placeable in narrow mounting holes in a relevant part of the instru- ent, whereby sound vibrations can be detected which are transmitted along the relevant surface portion in some main direction therein.
  • an optimum angular position as the directional microphone may be empirically determined, whereby a required individual attenuation of the detected signal and/or an individual correction of the detected and reproduced timbre, respectively, will be achievable.
  • the transducers are mounted in cylindrical holes, they may furthermore be adjusted with respect to their pene- tration depth into the holes, and also hereby an attenuation and/or timbre adjustment may be effected.
  • a trans ⁇ ducer is situated immediately below each of the strings of the bridge of a stringed instrument, whereby it is possible to solve the problem of getting the signals from the indi ⁇ vidual strings suitably mutually attuned without applying electrical attenuation equipment.
  • the transducers may produce quite heavy output signals when they are oriented in the primary sound routes from the strings down along the bridge, while the same signals may be attenuated by the said purely mechanical adjustment of the orientation and mounting depth of the transducers.
  • secondary vibrations occur as reflections from the timbre box and just this renders it possible for the transducers to also detect the timbre of the instrument.
  • a pick-up system according to the invention can be con ⁇ structed of small and very compact transducers that can be mounted in a simple manner without affecting the instrument construction and without changing the acoustic characteris- tics of the instrument, and also the transducers may be insensitive to outer sources of noise, among others the humming from alternating current fields and electric noise from lighting systems.
  • the transducers may be optimized or minimized to different types of instruments according to the lowest sound frequency of the instrument and the compact transducers have been found to be able to react evenly, i.e. in a uniform manner for all frequencies. It has even been ⁇ found that the reproduction of equally strong tones at piz- zicating and bowing, respectively, is uniform, which other- wise is not always the case.
  • the invention additionally comprises a musical instrument or a part of an instrument such as a string bridge which has the concerned transducers premounted.
  • Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a bridge for a contrabass provided with a pick-up system according to the invention
  • Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through one of the trans ⁇ ducers applied in this system
  • Fig. 3 is an end sectional view of the same along the line III-III in Fig. 2.
  • Fig. 4 is a plan view of the bridge shown in Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 1 a bridge 2 underneath the string incision 4 of which are situated respective transducers 6 with connecting wires 8 to a common plug 10 for connection to an amplifier.
  • the transducers 6 are made as small rigid cylinder elements which are inserted into tight fitting holes in the bridge and each one comprises a radially pro ⁇ jecting tube portion 12 acting both as an outlet stub for the wire 8 and as an operating handle at the mounting and a following adjustment of the position of the transducer in the associated tight-fitting hole.
  • the cylinder body 6 consists of two se i- cylindrical blocks 14, between which is placed a pair of piezoelectric crystal discs 16 which by means of an elec ⁇ trically conducting epoxy glue are glued to an intermediary metal foil 18 just as the outer sides of the discs 16 are conductively glue connected to the respective blocks 14. Round the edges of the discs 16 is provided an insulating compound 20, and the blocks 14 are additionally held together by means of end discs 22 and 24 that are soldered on.
  • the intermediary foil 18 constitutes the "hot" electrode of the piezo element and is connected to the central conductor 26 in an output coaxial cable 8 the screen conductor 28 of which is connected to the metallic block system surrounding the crystal discs 16.
  • the metal parts 14,22,24 consist pre ⁇ ferably of brass in which the velocity of the sound is almost the same as in wood. It will be understood that the crystal discs 16 will detect the pressure variations between the block portions 14 in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the plates and that such variations will be transmitted to the transducer from the wall of the surrounding tight-fit ⁇ ting hole. It should be particularly noted that the foremost fixed end disc 24 of the transducer is rather thin such that it does not interlock the blocks 14 against transferring the pressure variations concerned to the crystal discs 16. This frontal disc 24 might even be dispensed with and be substi ⁇ tuted by the hardened moulding compound 20.
  • the tube 12 is slightly rearwardly inclined whereby it is easily caught for turning and displacing the transducer body in the mounting hole.
  • the holes should be made with substantial accuracy such that the transducers may be in ⁇ serted with a good and friction-yielding fit without causing any essential tension in the wood.
  • Fig. 4 is shown a just struck string 30 from which a front wave 32 propagates through the bridge 2.
  • the asso ⁇ ciated transducer 6 is shown with its axis positioned trans ⁇ versely to the direction of propagation of the wave at the particular place, i.e. the transducer will reproduce the signal with appreciable attenuation.
  • a sounding string 34 with an associated wave pattern in the bridge including waves - shown in dotted lines - originating from the timbre box of the instrument.
  • the transducer 6 referred to is here oriented with its active axial plane intersecting the strings, whereby the transducer produces a signal at full intensity; this, however, will also depend on the degree to which the transducer is inserted into the tight - fitting hole.
  • the area of the crystal discs 16 may as shown be approx. half the diametric area of the transducer and the disc area and thickness may be adapted such that the transducer should be able to reproduce the deepest tones of the instrument, the lower frequency limit of the transducer being determined by the crystal size.
  • the deepest string of which is of 41.2 Hz a transducer having a length of 12 mm and diameter 5 mm and 30 Hz as lower frequency limit may be designed, whereas the measurements for violin transducers may be as small as 3 x 5 mm, viz. having a lower frequency limit of 135 Hz, which is somewhat lower than the frequency 196 Hz for the deepest string of the violin.
  • the upper frequency limit of the transducers may be higher than 30 kHz and they may produce a wholly linear signal between the frequency limit areas.
  • the signal size is ap- prox. 100 mV over 1 Mohm.

Abstract

A pick-up system for placing in connection with the bridge (2) of a stringed instrument consisting of individual, cylindrically designed microphone units (6), that are inserted in bored tight-fitting holes (7) in the bridge close to the individual strings (34), such that the microphones are rotatably frictionally fixed therein. The acoustic axes of the microphones are transversely oriented, whereby for individual adjustment it is possible by turning the microphones (6) in the tight-fitting holes to adjust the angle between the individual axes and the respective directions to the strings.

Description

A pick-up system for musical instruments, in particular for bridges on stringed instruments, and instrument or instrument part comprising such a system.
The present invention relates to a pick-up system for acoustic devices such as musical instruments, in particular for mounting in connection with bridges on stringed instru¬ ments . It is well known that the vibrations of strings and in instrument cases may be detected by suitable microphones or transducers with a view to an electrically amplified sound reproduction, but it is also known, that hereby a certain number of problems arise concerning correct repro¬ duction of timbre and sound intensity relations among various local sound sources such as the individual strings of a multistring musical instrument. Incorrectly detected inten¬ sity relations may, however, be corrected by selective atten¬ uation of the signals from the various transducers associated with the individual sound sources, but such electrical atten- uation in itself implies certain problems regarding necessary attenuation equipment, noise generation and interference phenomena in a parallel connected system of transducers. As far as a correct detection and reproduction of the timbre is concerned, it is in no way given that this will be achiev- able by placing an otherwise excellent microphone at a pre¬ sumed suitable place of the instrument, as the timbre may well be determined or codetermined by sound waves which pass through or along the relevant instrument surface portion without revealing itself outwardly to the microphone. With the present invention it is aimed at providing a pick-up system which distinguishes itself by such placeabilitv and adjustability that in a simple manner both a possibility of a purely acoustic attenuation of the signal to be detected and a possibility of an adjustment to an optimized reproduc- tion of the timbre of the instrument is achievable, and ac¬ cording to the invention this is achieved through the pick-up system being designed as indicated in the characterizing part of claim 1.
Hereby the microphone or microphones are placeable in narrow mounting holes in a relevant part of the instru- ent, whereby sound vibrations can be detected which are transmitted along the relevant surface portion in some main direction therein. As the microphone is rotatably mounted in the mounting hole an optimum angular position as the directional microphone may be empirically determined, whereby a required individual attenuation of the detected signal and/or an individual correction of the detected and reproduced timbre, respectively, will be achievable.
As the transducers are mounted in cylindrical holes, they may furthermore be adjusted with respect to their pene- tration depth into the holes, and also hereby an attenuation and/or timbre adjustment may be effected.
According to a main embodiment of the invention a trans¬ ducer is situated immediately below each of the strings of the bridge of a stringed instrument, whereby it is possible to solve the problem of getting the signals from the indi¬ vidual strings suitably mutually attuned without applying electrical attenuation equipment. By their close contact with the bridge in the near fields of the respective strings the transducers may produce quite heavy output signals when they are oriented in the primary sound routes from the strings down along the bridge, while the same signals may be attenuated by the said purely mechanical adjustment of the orientation and mounting depth of the transducers. In the bridge also secondary vibrations occur as reflections from the timbre box and just this renders it possible for the transducers to also detect the timbre of the instrument. The mounting in the near field of the strings presents the advantage that it is predominantly the actual instrument sound that is detected while noise signals from e.g. the fingering at a fingerboard will only to a limited extent be transmitted to the transducers. A pick-up system according to the invention can be con¬ structed of small and very compact transducers that can be mounted in a simple manner without affecting the instrument construction and without changing the acoustic characteris- tics of the instrument, and also the transducers may be insensitive to outer sources of noise, among others the humming from alternating current fields and electric noise from lighting systems. The transducers may be optimized or minimized to different types of instruments according to the lowest sound frequency of the instrument and the compact transducers have been found to be able to react evenly, i.e. in a uniform manner for all frequencies. It has even been ■ found that the reproduction of equally strong tones at piz- zicating and bowing, respectively, is uniform, which other- wise is not always the case.
A preferred embodiment of the compact transducers is indicated in claims 2 through 4.
According to claims 6 and 7 the invention additionally comprises a musical instrument or a part of an instrument such as a string bridge which has the concerned transducers premounted.
The invention is described in further detail in the following with reference to the drawing in which: -
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a bridge for a contrabass provided with a pick-up system according to the invention,
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through one of the trans¬ ducers applied in this system,
Fig. 3 is an end sectional view of the same along the line III-III in Fig. 2. and
Fig. 4 is a plan view of the bridge shown in Fig. 1.
In Fig. 1 is shown a bridge 2 underneath the string incision 4 of which are situated respective transducers 6 with connecting wires 8 to a common plug 10 for connection to an amplifier. The transducers 6 are made as small rigid cylinder elements which are inserted into tight fitting holes in the bridge and each one comprises a radially pro¬ jecting tube portion 12 acting both as an outlet stub for the wire 8 and as an operating handle at the mounting and a following adjustment of the position of the transducer in the associated tight-fitting hole.
The more detailed design of the transducers is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The cylinder body 6 consists of two se i- cylindrical blocks 14, between which is placed a pair of piezoelectric crystal discs 16 which by means of an elec¬ trically conducting epoxy glue are glued to an intermediary metal foil 18 just as the outer sides of the discs 16 are conductively glue connected to the respective blocks 14. Round the edges of the discs 16 is provided an insulating compound 20, and the blocks 14 are additionally held together by means of end discs 22 and 24 that are soldered on. The intermediary foil 18 constitutes the "hot" electrode of the piezo element and is connected to the central conductor 26 in an output coaxial cable 8 the screen conductor 28 of which is connected to the metallic block system surrounding the crystal discs 16. The metal parts 14,22,24 consist pre¬ ferably of brass in which the velocity of the sound is almost the same as in wood. It will be understood that the crystal discs 16 will detect the pressure variations between the block portions 14 in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the plates and that such variations will be transmitted to the transducer from the wall of the surrounding tight-fit¬ ting hole. It should be particularly noted that the foremost fixed end disc 24 of the transducer is rather thin such that it does not interlock the blocks 14 against transferring the pressure variations concerned to the crystal discs 16. This frontal disc 24 might even be dispensed with and be substi¬ tuted by the hardened moulding compound 20. The tube 12 is slightly rearwardly inclined whereby it is easily caught for turning and displacing the transducer body in the mounting hole. The holes should be made with substantial accuracy such that the transducers may be in¬ serted with a good and friction-yielding fit without causing any essential tension in the wood. In Fig. 4 is shown a just struck string 30 from which a front wave 32 propagates through the bridge 2. The asso¬ ciated transducer 6 is shown with its axis positioned trans¬ versely to the direction of propagation of the wave at the particular place, i.e. the transducer will reproduce the signal with appreciable attenuation. On the right is shown a sounding string 34 with an associated wave pattern in the bridge, including waves - shown in dotted lines - originating from the timbre box of the instrument. The transducer 6 referred to is here oriented with its active axial plane intersecting the strings, whereby the transducer produces a signal at full intensity; this, however, will also depend on the degree to which the transducer is inserted into the tight - fitting hole.
The area of the crystal discs 16 may as shown be approx. half the diametric area of the transducer and the disc area and thickness may be adapted such that the transducer should be able to reproduce the deepest tones of the instrument, the lower frequency limit of the transducer being determined by the crystal size. For use with a contrabass, the deepest string of which is of 41.2 Hz, a transducer having a length of 12 mm and diameter 5 mm and 30 Hz as lower frequency limit may be designed, whereas the measurements for violin transducers may be as small as 3 x 5 mm, viz. having a lower frequency limit of 135 Hz, which is somewhat lower than the frequency 196 Hz for the deepest string of the violin. The upper frequency limit of the transducers may be higher than 30 kHz and they may produce a wholly linear signal between the frequency limit areas. By the said pre¬ ferred design with two crystal discs the signal size is ap- prox. 100 mV over 1 Mohm.

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1. A pick-up system for acoustic devices such as musical instruments, in particular for mounting in connection with the bridges of stringed instruments characterized in that it comprises one or more microphones each designed with a circular cylindrical housing for frictionally fixed rotatable reception in a mounting hole in a selected part of the musi¬ cal instrument, said housing comprising a piezoelectric transducer with diametrically oriented axis.
2. A pick-up system according to claim 1, characterized in that the housing is formed of substantially semi-cylin¬ drical block parts, preferably of brass, between which is or are laid one or more discs of a piezoelectric material.
3. A pick-up system according to claim 2, characterized in that two piezoelectric discs are glued with electrically conducting glue to an intermediary foil electrode and at their opposite outer sides are correspondingly glued to the block parts, which are mutually electrically connected through at least one end disc portion.
4. A pick-up system according to claims 1, 2 or 3, charac¬ terized in that the housing near one of its ends is designed having a tube projecting in a radial plane and constituting both an operating handle for the housing and an outlet stub for the connecting wire to the transducer.
5. A pick-up system according to claim 2, characterized in that the transducer takes up an area of the magnitude half the diametral area of the housing and that the trans- ducer is minimized for adaptation of its lower frequency limit of the deepest tone of the particular instrument, e.g. at a housing size of approx. 5 12 mm for a contrabass and approx. 3 x 5 mm for a violin.
6. A musical instrument or instrument part with a pick-up system according to claim 1 , characterized in that the said cylindrical microphones are mounted in one or more tight- fitting holes in a frictionally fixed displaceable and rota¬ table manner.
7. An instrument or instrument part according to claim 1, comprising or consisting of a bridge for a multistringed instrument, characterized in that substantially respective tight-fitting holes for individual microphones are provided immediately belov; the fixing point for each individual string.
PCT/DK1988/000171 1987-10-26 1988-10-25 A pick-up system for musical instruments, in particular for bridges on stringed instruments, and instrument or instrument part comprising such a system WO1989004107A1 (en)

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