Music – Instruments – Stringed
Patent
1972-02-18
1976-07-20
Gonzales, John
Music
Instruments
Stringed
84291, G10D 102
Patent
active
039699714
ABSTRACT:
Up to twenty bow-operable violin-type stringed instruments, or VIODES of different tonality and twelfth coloration or shade, are combined to form a string ensemble. All of the instruments have substantially identical overall length, fingerboard length, effective string length, and fingering but graduated body sizes (volume, width, thickness). Thus all of the instruments may be played da braccio in exactly the same manner. The higher-pitched groups, the VIODINAS and VIODENAS, are tuned in a relationship similar to that of the customary first and second violin. The next lower group the VIODAS, is tuned one fifth lower, whereas the next lower group, VIOBASA, is an octave lower. The lowest frequency group, VIOGRAVAS, is tuned a twelth lower than the VIODINAS and VIODENAS. The lower three groups are transposing instruments all scored on a g-clef. One instrument for each group can be used to form a balanced quintet, or the VIOGRAVA may be eliminated for a quartet. Each instrument has its sounding boards formed with special resonance zones in the form of concavities or lands having centers inward of the periphery.
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Grove's Dictionary of Music & Musicans, edited by H. C. Colles, MacMillan Co., N.Y., 1947, vol. 5, pp. 520-524 & Plate LXXXVIII.
Complexul Pentru Prelucrarea Lemnului Reghin
Dubno Herbert
Gonzales John
Ross Karl F.
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