JP2591657B2 - Woodwind fingering display - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a woodwind instrument fingering display device for electronically displaying fingering of a woodwind instrument such as a flute, oboe, bassoon, and the like.

[Conventional technology]

The fingering of woodwind instruments such as flute, recorder, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, etc., corresponds to the generated pitch, the basic fingering, the alternate fingering of the basic fingering, and the two pitches in succession There are trill fingering (fingering to alternately play two tones separated by a semitone or twice) and tremolo fingering (fingering to alternately play two tones separated by more than a third). The basic fingering is the fingering of the musical instrument with the best tone and pitch. It is fingering to make it easy to play difficult and difficult passages. The trill fingering tremolo fingering is a fingering for playing two pitches alternately at high speed, so that the performance is convenient even if the timbre and pitch are sacrificed to some extent.

The number of these fingerings ranges from several times to several tens of times the pitch of a woodwind instrument, and it is impossible for a player to memorize all fingerings. It was put together in the index.

The fingering table is usually composed of a staff notation indicating a pitch, a picture of a musical instrument or a picture of a key, in which a key to be pressed is painted in black, and a note or a note.

[Problems of the prior art]

Such a fingering table is indispensable, but not always necessary, for the player of the musical instrument, and a fingering table for advanced users is particularly bulky and not only inconvenient to carry, but also provides the desired fingering. It was difficult to find out quickly.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and is small and lightweight, and is capable of displaying various types of fingering of a woodwind instrument quickly and complicatedly, from finger replacement of a trill or a tremolo. It is an object of the present invention to provide a fingering display device for a woodwind instrument.

[Means for solving the problem]

The present invention relates to a first storage device for storing basic fingering and replacement fingering of a woodwind instrument, a second storage device for storing data of trill tremolo fingering, and the first and second storage devices. An address generator for generating a read address of the device;
A pitch indicator for displaying a pitch corresponding to the address,
A fingering display for displaying fingering according to fingering data read from the first or second storage device.

[Action]

The note displayed on the pitch display, the note name and the fingering corresponding to the note displayed on the fingering display are the addresses of the address generation device that sequentially changes the generated address in accordance with an external operation. Is changed sequentially. In particular, the display of the fingering indicates the presence or absence of the replacement finger in addition to the basic fingering in the basic fingering, and the fingering of the replacement finger is also displayed by an external operation. In the trill tremolo fingering, two sounds required for the trill or tremolo are displayed on the pitch display, and the fingering portion to be moved by the trill tremolo is blinked on the fingering display.

As a result, the basic fingering and the alternate fingering can be known very easily, and even in the complicated trill / tremolo fingering,
Extremely easy-to-understand display becomes possible.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 shows the appearance of a woodwind instrument fingering display device 1 of the present invention. The pitch is displayed on the pitch display 2 by a note or a note name. In FIG. 1, two pitches, that is, F-sharp (#), that is, the pitch name and its note, and G, that is, the pitch name and its note, are displayed. The pitch display 2 displays one pitch in the case of the basic fingering and the alternative fingering, and displays two pitches in the case of the trill tremolo fingering. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the trills of F # and G are displayed. The fingering display 3 displays a key that is depressed in the woodwind instrument, and indicates whether the fingering has a replacement finger and whether the fingering is suitable for playing fortissimo or pianissimo. Further, in the case of displaying the trill / tremolo fingering, the keys to be repeatedly pressed and released are blinked or displayed, and the fingering of the two pitches for performing the trill or the tremolo by selection is alternately displayed. It is also possible.

The fingering display corresponding to the content displayed on the pitch display 2 is displayed on the fingering display. In the case of the trill tremolo display, the pitch display is used in the blinking display or the alternating display. Also, in response to the blinking or alternate display of the fingering display 3, the pitches to be generated may be displayed alternately. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, two pitches can be displayed on the pitch display 2; however, the present invention is not necessarily limited to this. For example, if one pitch can be displayed. Good.

The fingering display in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 displays the pitch of F # on the flute by fingering, that is, the key to be depressed by hatching. In the figure, when displaying the trill of F # and G, the key 4 blinks or the fingering display of F # and G
Is alternately repeated.

The operation of the fingering display device 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

When the power switch 5 is turned on, the initial address is given from the address generator 21 to the pitch display control unit 22, and the first pitch, for example, C (C) between the third pitch on one of the two display units of the pitch display 2 is displayed. The pitch of c) is displayed by a note, a note name, or the like. In the initial state, the gates 231, 232, 235 are off and the gates 233, 234 are on under the control of the gate control unit 23. Therefore, the initial value of the address generator 21 is
Is transmitted to the basic / replacement fingering storage device 24 through the memory, first, the data of the basic fingering is read out, and is transmitted to the fingering display control unit 25 via the gate 234, and corresponds to the pitch C of the above. The fingering to be performed is displayed by the fingering display 3.

Next, a case where a fingering at a desired pitch is displayed will be described. When the UP switch 6 is pressed, a pulse of the pulse generator 126 is sent to the address generator 21 and the pitch display control unit 22, and an up / down counter (not shown) inside the address generator 21 is advanced to advance the address. Can be In response to this, the pitch display control unit 22 improves the pitch display of the pitch display 2 by semitones. When the UP switch 6 is pressed, the pitch display control section 22 controls the pitch display 2 so as to display a semitone using sharpness. As is well known, at the average rate, C-sharp and D-flat, D-sharp and E-flat, F-sharp and G-flat, G-sharp and A-flat, A-sharp and B-flat have the same pitch. That is, when the UP switch is pressed, C,
C-sharp, D, D-sharp, E, F, F-sharp, etc. The pitch is displayed over the entire range that can be covered by the woodwind instrument.

When the DOWN switch 7 is pressed, the pulse of the pulse generator 126 is sent to the address generator 21 and the pitch display control unit 22, and the count value of the up / down counter in the address generator 21 is reduced and the address is returned. In this case, the pitch display control unit 22 lowers the pitch display of the pitch display 2 by semitones using a flat. For example, starting from C, H, B flat,
A, A flat, G, G flat, etc. are displayed using flats over the entire sound range.

The address value of the address generator 21 is sent to the basic / finger fingering storage device 24 via the gate 233, the fingering data is read out, sent to the fingering display control unit 25 via the gate 234, and the fingering indicator 3 To display fingering.

When both the UP switch 6 and the DOWN switch 7 are released when the desired pitch is reached, the address generated by the address generator 21 is fixed, and the display of the pitch display 2 and the fingering display 3 is also the desired sound. Stop at high display. In the example shown in FIG. 1, the pitch of F sharp is displayed on one of the two display portions of the pitch display 2, and the corresponding fingering is displayed on the fingering display 3.

In the basic / finger fingering storage device 24, in addition to the basic fingering, fingering fingering, presence / absence of fingering fingering, comments on fingering fingering (for example, suitable for playing fortissimo or pianissimo) Is stored. The presence or absence of a finger replacement is detected by the finger replacement determination unit 26 based on the data, and the fingering display control unit 25 displays that fact on the fingering display 3. When the user wants to know the replacement finger, the replacement finger switch 8 is pressed, the replacement finger address generator 27 is driven, and the replacement finger reading is read out from the basic / replacement fingering storage device 24 and displayed. If there is comment data, it is also displayed.

When the UP switch 6 and the DOWN switch 7 are continuously pressed, the pulse of the pulse generator 126 is sent to the address generator 21.
Only the number may be sent to the address generator 21.

Next, a case in which fingering of trill and tremolo is displayed will be described. As described above, one of the two sounds required for trill or tremolo is set. When the SET switch 9 is pressed in such a state, the gate control unit 23 turns on the gate 232 and temporarily stores the one pitch address in the address register 28.
2,233,234 are turned off, and gates 231,235 are turned on (at this time, the address generator 21 has an address for generating one of the above sounds, but an initial address may be generated for this). In this state, UP switch 6,
Pressing one of the DOWN switches 7 causes the address generator 21
Forward or backward to set the desired other tone of the trill or tremolo. First, the above address is displayed in the pitch display control section 22 on the other of the two display sections of the pitch display 2 (one of which has already displayed the pitch, in the example of FIG. 1, the F sharp is already displayed). I do. On the other hand, the above address is sent to the trill tremolo address generator 29 via the gate 231 and is combined with one pitch address already stored in the address register 28 to generate a trill tremolo address. The address is sent to the trill / tremolo fingering storage device 30, the fingering data is read out, and the fingering data is sent to the fingering display control unit 25 via the gate 235. The fingering data includes data of a key to be always pressed and data of a key to be repeatedly pressed during a trill or tremolo performance. Fingering display control unit
At 25, the key to be pressed is always displayed, and the key to be repeatedly pressed is blinked. In response to this blinking, the pitch display control unit 22 may alternately display the pitch of the sound produced by the fingering.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, fingering of the trill of F sharp and G is displayed, and the key 4 blinks on the fingering display 3. When the key 4 is turned on, the fingering of the F-sharp is shown, and when it is turned off, the fingering of the G is shown. In this case, in the pitch display 2, when the key 4 is turned on, the left F-sharp note is turned on and the right G note is turned off. When the key 4 is turned off, the right G note is turned on. To turn off the note on the left F-sharp.

When there is a finger replacement in the trill and tremolo fingering, it is possible to display the existence of the finger replacement and to operate the finger replacement switch 8 to sequentially display the finger replacement. Further, a comment for the replacement finger may be additionally displayed.

The STOP switch 10 is used to stop the blinking display of the fingering of the trill and the tremolo. This is because in the case of complicated fingering, fingering cannot be immediately grasped by blinking display. Therefore, by repeatedly pressing and pressing the STOP switch 10, the pitch display control section 22 and the fingering display control section 25 are operated to repeat the cycle of displaying one sound of the trill tremolo → displaying the other sound → blinking display. If this is the case, fingering can be easily grasped, and the learning effect increases.

After the display of the fingering of the trill / tremolo has been completed in this way, if the RESET switch 31 is pressed, the address generator 2 is displayed.
1. The gate control unit 23 is reset and returns to the initial state, and a search for a new fingering becomes possible.

In the case of woodwind instruments, a ring key may be used, and only the ring may be pressed, or the tone hole or the ring key hole may be closed halfway. If the display portion is divided by a double circle or a vertical line as described above so that each display portion can be displayed independently or in coordination with the other, fine fingering display can be performed.

A liquid crystal display is most suitable for the pitch display 2 and the fingering display 3 from the viewpoint of power consumption, but is not limited thereto.
Any other known display means may be used.

In the embodiment of FIG. 1, the fingering of the flute is displayed, but other woodwind instruments such as a recorder, an oboe,
It may be a clarinet, a bassoon, a saxophone, or the like, and the fingering of some or all of these instruments may be displayed. in this case,
The fingering display 3 needs to display which instrument is showing fingering.

The present invention relates to a fingering display device, but may include a built-in sound generator that generates sound corresponding to each pitch, or a known tuner, metronome, or the like.

If a solar cell is used as a power source, the switch 5 is unnecessary.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, the present invention can store the basic fingering, the alternate fingering, the trill or the tremolo fingering electronically, and selectively display the stored contents by the pitch display and the fingering display. This eliminates the need for the player of the instrument to carry a fingering table that weighs a large amount, and the trill tremolo fingering can also display the keys to be pressed intermittently by flashing or alternately, so that complicated performance Even if it is a finger, it is easy to understand and can improve the learning effect.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the embodiment of the present invention. 2. Pitch display, 3. Fingering display, 6. UP switch, 7. DOWN switch.

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A first storage device for storing data of basic fingering and replacement fingering of a woodwind instrument, a second storage device for storing data of fingering of trill and tremolo, and the first and second storage devices. 2
An address generating device for generating a read address of the storage device, a pitch display for displaying a pitch corresponding to the address, and a fingering data read from the first or second storage device. A woodwind instrument fingering display device comprising: a fingering indicator for displaying fingering. 2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein a key to be depressed intermittently blinks when the fingering of the trill tremolo is displayed. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the fingering of the trill tremolo is displayed, the pitch and the fingering of one or the other of the two sounds played can be selectively displayed.
Item 3. The woodwind instrument fingering display device according to item 2 or 2. 4. When setting a desired pitch, the display of the treble is upwardly or downwardly shifted by one semitone at a time. 4. The fingering display device according to claim 1, wherein the semitone is displayed in a flat or sharp manner. 5. The woodwind musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the display of the basic fingering and the presence of the replacement fingering of the pitch are displayed. Fingering display.