SU16985A1 - A device for playing with the help of the feet on instruments such as balalaika - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to instruments for playing with the help of legs known stringed instruments with keyboard devices for pressing the strings to the frets. By means of a rotary disk connected to the pedal, carrying a mediator and a counterweight, it is supposed to get a device for playing with the help of legs on instruments such as balalaika, so that to slow the rotation of the rotary disk are springs attached at the ends to the frame, and at the other to the disc process.

The drawing shows a schematic view of the fixture.

The device is a frame fixed on four wooden legs 1, 1 1 and 1 fastened with wooden strips 2. 2 2 and 2 On the balalaika a wooden frame is fastened, consisting of racks 3, 3 and 3 fastened with strips 4 and in this frame on the wooden axis a metal disk 7 is fixed on one side, on the other a wooden process 5. A disk 8 is attached to the disk 7 by a rod 8 and 9 by a rod 13 a counterweight 14. The process 5 is pulled back by a spring 6,

attached to the crossbar 4, on the other side of the appendix, there is a suspension spring 11. The appendix 5 is connected by a cable 16 to the pedal 17 mounted on the crossbar 18.

The cable 16 is pulled away by a spring attached at one end of the E balalaika 15. When the pedal 17 is pressed down, the shoots 5, as well as the mediator with a load, move and hit the strings. With the release of the process 5 through the spring 6 will go in the opposite direction and again hit the strings, the pedal 17 the spring 15 will be in its original position. At the other end of the ball, on the side of the neck, there is a wooden plank carrying two valves 19 and 19 on which the plugs 21 are fastened, the number of plugs depends on the number of strings participating in the chord. The valve 19 is always discharged upwards by a spring 22.

Each of the valves is associated with a separate pedal by a trot. The cable of the valve 19 on the one hand is fixed at point 20, and on the other on the pedal at point 24; the cable 23 of valve 19 is fortified on the one hand at point 20 and on the other at point 25.

The subject of the patent.

1. A device for playing with the help of the instruments on the balalaika type, consisting of a bed with pedals connected to clamps for the frets and a percussion device (mediator), characterized by the use of an articulated 17 pedal with the pedal

disc 7 carrying the mediator 9 and equipped with a counterweight 14.

2. The form of the device according to n. 1, characterized by the use of springs 6, 11 attached at the ends to the frame, and others to the process of the disk 7, in order to slow down the rotation of the lowermost one, while moving in one direction with the help of one spring 6 and in the reverse stroke the other 11.