Keyboard instrument
AssigneeVioga GmbH
InventorHannes Schimmel-Vogel
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Abstract
The Invention relates to a keyboard instrument with a keyboard and a sound board including a front edge which runs substantially parallel to the keyboard. The sound board further includes a first lateral edge which forms a first angle (A) with the front edge, and a second lateral edge which forms a second angle (B) with the front edge. Strings are provided which are induced to vibrate by respective keys of the keyboard. There is also at least one sound bridge which is secured to the sound board and on which the other end of the strings which faces away from the keys is supported. The first angle (A) is >90°. The sound bridge extends at a right angle on the sound board approximately as far as a line that runs rearwards from the intersection of the front edge of the sound board and the first lateral edge.
Claims13
A keyboard instrument
- with a keyboard (12),
- with keys,
- with strings that can be induced to vibrate by keys of the keyboard (12) that are assigned to each string,
- with the keys and the assigned strings of the lower tones being formed as bass choirs and those of the middle and higher tones being formed as tenor and descant choirs, with a sound board (10), having a front edge (14), which runs substantially parallel to the keyboard (12) when mounted, and having a first lateral edge (16a), which forms a first angle (A) with the front edge (14), and a second lateral edge (18a), which forms a second angle (B) with the front edge (14), with at least one sound bridge (36), which is secured to the sound board (10) and on which the other end of the strings that faces away from the keys of the keyboard (12) is supported,
- is hereby characterized
- in that the first angle (A) is >90°,
- so that the sound board (10) extends over a line, which runs rearwards at a right angle from the intersection of the front edge (14) of the sound board (10) and the first lateral edge (16a), and
- in that the end of the sound bridge (36) facing away from the keys of the keyboard (12) extends at least so far in the direction of the first lateral edge (16a)
- that the longest string of the tenor choir is supported unwrapped in the region of this end of the sound bridge (36).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.