阅读说明：本技术 电子乐器及其使用方法 (Electronic musical instrument and method of using the same ) 是由 曾耀君 于 2019-03-26 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明实施例涉及音乐设备,且公开了一种电子乐器及其使用方法。所述电子乐器,包括箱体、位于箱体内部的音效配件、传感器、音频声音处理器、微型可编程序处理器,其中,音效配件设置于木箱鼓内将木箱鼓分不同的敲击区域；在微型可编程序处理器上电连接音频声音处理器和传感器,其中所述音频声音处理器的声源模块接收外连的实时音乐,所述传感器感应演奏者的距离和移动来控制实时音乐的播放音效。本发明的电子乐器特别适合用于音乐治疗的过程中,即便患者不接触该乐器,也可以感知到音乐,进行音乐演奏互动。(The embodiment of the invention relates to music equipment, and discloses an electronic musical instrument and a using method thereof. The electronic musical instrument comprises a box body, sound effect accessories, a sensor, an audio sound processor and a micro programmable processor, wherein the sound effect accessories are positioned in the box body and divide the wooden box drum into different knocking areas; the micro programmable processor is electrically connected with an audio sound processor and a sensor, wherein a sound source module of the audio sound processor receives externally connected real-time music, and the sensor senses the distance and the movement of a player to control the playing sound effect of the real-time music. The electronic musical instrument is particularly suitable for being used in the music therapy process, and even if a patient does not contact the electronic musical instrument, the patient can sense the music and perform music playing interaction.)

1. An electronic musical instrument is characterized by comprising a box body, a sound effect accessory, a sensor, an audio sound processor and a micro programmable processor, wherein the sound effect accessory, the sensor, the audio sound processor and the micro programmable processor are positioned in the box body,

the sound effect accessory is arranged in the wooden box drum to divide the wooden box drum into different knocking areas;

the micro programmable processor is electrically connected with the audio sound processor and the sensor, wherein a sound source module of the audio sound processor receives externally connected real-time music, and the sensor senses the distance and the movement of a player to control the playing sound effect of the real-time music.

2. The electronic musical instrument of claim 1, wherein the sound effect accessories include an inverter tube and snare drum wires and/or a sand band, which are provided in the cabinet to divide the cabinet into different striking areas, comprising:

a bass zone which is close to the inverter tube and can generate bass drum sound when being struck;

a high-pitch region which is far away from the inverter tube and can generate a soundboard sound with higher pitch when being hit; and

the two edge areas of the long edge of the wooden drum box can generate a tapping area with the effect of vibrating a sand belt by a sound line in military drum music when tapping.

3. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the audio sound processor includes a sound effect module that performs a plurality of different sound effect processes on sound effects of real-time music;

the sound effect processing includes one or more of: reverberation, echo and distortion, and high and low frequency equalizers and microphone amplifiers.

4. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, further comprising: the device comprises a sound amplifier and a resonance loudspeaker, wherein real-time music processed by the sound effect of an audio sound processor amplifies power to the resonance loudspeaker through the sound amplifier, and the resonance loudspeaker makes a box body become an independently applied sound box by utilizing a resonance principle to play the real-time music.

5. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein when the sensor senses the player, real-time music is started to be played;

if the sensor senses that the player approaches, the sound of the real-time music becomes larger;

if the sensor senses that the player is far away, the sound of the real-time music is reduced;

and when the sensor does not sense the player, stopping playing the real-time music.

6. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the sensor employs an ultrasonic sensor;

the electronic musical instrument further includes: the external sensor connector can be externally connected with other sensors to control the playing of real-time music;

the other sensors include one or more of the following: vibration sensor, infrared ray sensor and grip strength sensor.

7. Electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, characterized in that the micro-programmable processor is provided with a reset function, the restart of which is controlled by a reset button provided on the wooden case.

8. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the micro-programmable processor is electrically connected to a gear motor, the gear motor being a slow motor.

9. The electronic musical instrument of claim 1, wherein the electronic musical instrument is an electronic wooden drum;

the electronic wooden drum further comprises: the ornaments are rotated to attract players to approach and participate in the performance.

10. A method of using the electronic musical instrument according to any one of claims 1 to 9, comprising:

turning on a sensor of the electronic musical instrument;

when the distance of a player is sensed to be within a set range, the micro programmable processor of the electronic musical instrument controls the audio sound processor and plays real-time music through the sound amplifier and the resonance loudspeaker;

and in the set range, controlling the sound change of the real-time music according to the distance and the movement of the player from the box body sensed by the sensor.

Technical Field

The present invention relates to musical instruments, and more particularly to electronic musical instruments and methods of use thereof.

Background

A drum is a percussion instrument, and the performance of the drum is generally to strike the head and the shell with hands, or strike the head and the shell with a stick. Drums, particularly tambourines, are often used in musical treatments because of the tactile nature of the drums and their ease of use.

Music education is primarily directed to teaching music and enhancing music perception and music knowledge and to molding or learning a musical instrument. While music therapy is a professional item in adjuvant medicine, music therapists plan and creatively use music to achieve specific therapeutic goals, including the needs of individual physiology, psychology, emotion, cognition, social interaction, communication, and the like, to promote, improve or maintain the physical and mental health and lifestyle of an individual, can understand that music is used as a medium to improve therapeutic goals that are not music, such as social ability, emotional awareness, communication ability, muscle ability, persistent attentiveness, and the like.

The current service category of music therapy is mainly in preschool education, special education, medical system, mental health, physical rehabilitation, health maintenance, old people service and the like. The general use of music to treat conditions that ameliorate signs of disease and its emotional behavior problems includes: attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD); autistic Spectrum Disorder (Autistic Spectrum Disorder); read-write disorders/learning disorders; a delay in development; mentally handicapped; thought disorder/schizophrenia; depression; other mood disorders; other psychiatric disorders; cognitive impairment/brain degeneration; physical disability; patients with chronic diseases; patients with telophase disease; rehabilitation after stroke, etc.

The inventor finds that at least the following problems exist in the prior art:

in the course of participating in music therapy, it has been found that conventional wooden drums for music therapy, although easily producing sound, often play a single instrumental sound in use, not only in a relatively simple and boring manner, but also must make direct contact with the drum, such as by tapping or beating. For patients who perform music treatment, they often have physical, psychological and mental problems of varying degrees, and are likely to be unacceptable or slow to accept for the surroundings, and if they have to be in direct contact with the drum to be able to interact with them, they are likely to be unable to perform music treatment effectively and smoothly.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide an electronic musical instrument and a using method thereof, so that a patient can sense music and perform musical performance interaction even if the patient does not contact the musical instrument in the music treatment process.

In order to solve the technical problems, an embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic musical instrument, including a box body, a sound effect accessory, a sensor, an audio sound processor, and a micro programmable processor, wherein the sound effect accessory is arranged in the box body to divide the box body into different knocking regions; the micro programmable processor is electrically connected with the audio sound processor and the sensor, wherein a sound source module of the audio sound processor receives externally connected real-time music, and the sensor senses the distance and the movement of a player to control the playing sound effect of the real-time music.

In addition, the audio effect accessory includes inverter tube and military drum sound line and/or sand belt, sets up in the box and divides the box different area of strikeing, includes: a bass zone which is close to the inverter tube and can generate bass drum sound when being struck; a high-pitch region which is far away from the inverter tube and can generate a soundboard sound with higher pitch when being hit; the two edge areas of the long side of the wooden drum box can generate a tapping area with the effect of vibrating a sand belt with a sound line in the military drum music when tapping; the effect that the edge area where the snare drum sound lines and/or the sand belts are located is obvious compared with the edge area at the other side when the snare drum sound lines and/or the sand belts are lightly tapped to vibrate the sand belts is obvious.

In addition, the audio sound processor comprises a sound effect module which carries out various different sound effect processing on the sound effect of real-time music; the sound effect processing includes one or more of: reverberation, echo and distortion, and high and low frequency equalizers and microphone amplifiers.

In addition, the electronic musical instrument further includes: the device comprises a sound amplifier and a resonance loudspeaker, wherein real-time music processed by the sound effect of an audio sound processor amplifies power to the resonance loudspeaker through the sound amplifier, and the resonance loudspeaker makes a box body become an independently applied sound box by utilizing a resonance principle to play the real-time music.

In addition, when the sensor senses the player, real-time music is played; if the sensor senses that the player approaches, the sound of the real-time music becomes larger; if the sensor senses that the player is far away, the sound of the real-time music is reduced; and when the sensor does not sense the player, stopping playing the real-time music.

In addition, the sensor adopts an ultrasonic sensor; the electronic musical instrument further includes: the external sensor connector can be externally connected with other sensors to control the playing of real-time music; the other sensors include one or more of the following: vibration sensor, infrared ray sensor and grip strength sensor.

In addition, the micro programmable processor is provided with a reset function, and the restart of the micro programmable processor is controlled by a reset button arranged on the wooden box body.

In addition, the micro programmable processor is electrically connected with a speed reducing motor, and the speed reducing motor adopts a slow motor.

In addition, the electronic musical instrument is an electronic wooden drum; the electronic wooden drum further comprises: the ornaments are rotated to attract players to participate in the performance near the wooden drums.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of using an electronic wooden drum as described above, comprising: opening a sensor of the electronic wooden drum; when the distance of the player is sensed to be within a set range, the micro programmable processor controls the audio sound processor to play real-time music through the sound amplifier and the resonance loudspeaker; and in the set range, controlling the sound change of the real-time music according to the sensed distance between the player and the wooden drum.

In the invention, the traditional wooden drum is improved, the micro programmable processor is arranged in the wooden drum and electrically connected with the ultrasonic sensor and used for sensing the distance and the movement of a patient to control the playing sound effect of real-time music, when the patient is sensed, the real-time music is played, when the patient is sensed to approach, the sound of the real-time music is increased, when the patient is sensed to be far away, the sound of the real-time music is decreased, and when the patient is not sensed, the real-time music is stopped being played. Therefore, even if the patient who carries out music treatment does not contact the wooden drum, the patient can sense the music and carry out music playing interaction, and the purpose of music treatment is achieved.

The invention aims to provide a method for attracting a patient who performs music treatment to get close to a wooden drum and performing music. For this technical problem, there are many influencing factors, for example, a patient who performs music therapy usually does not have the performance capability, and if the patient only performs a shuffle, the music therapy effect is not ideal. The invention electrically connects the audio sound processor on the micro programmable processor, and the sound source module of the audio sound processor receives the externally connected real-time music in a wired or wireless way. In addition, the sound effect module of the audio sound processor carries out various different sound effect processing on the sound effect of the real-time music; the real-time music processed by the audio processing of the audio processor amplifies the power to a resonance loudspeaker through a sound amplifier, and the resonance loudspeaker plays the real-time music by utilizing the resonance principle. Namely, the music generated by the wooden drum is not played by the patient who performs music treatment, but the playing sound effect of the externally connected real-time music is controlled by sensing the distance and the movement of the patient. Therefore, in the music treatment process, a music therapist can not only use music in a planned and creative way to achieve a specific treatment target, but also attract a patient who performs music treatment to approach the wooden boxed drum to interact under the condition of no contact with the wooden boxed drum, and achieve the specific treatment target better.

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One or more embodiments are illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings, which correspond to the figures in which like reference numerals refer to similar elements and which are not to scale unless otherwise specified.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an electronic musical instrument provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an electronic musical instrument partition provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a sensor switch, a reset button, an indicator light, and other sensors connected externally;

FIG. 4 is a diagram of a sound effect button according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic flow chart of using the electronic musical instrument according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more apparent, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous technical details are set forth in order to provide a better understanding of the present application in various embodiments of the present invention. However, the technical solution claimed in the present application can be implemented without these technical details and various changes and modifications based on the following embodiments.

A first embodiment of the present invention relates to an electronic musical instrument, which in a specific example is an electronic wooden drum. As shown in fig. 1, the electronic wooden drum includes a case 1, an inverter tube 2 inside the case, an ultrasonic sensor 3, an audio sound processor 4, and a micro-programmable processor 5.

The box body is preferably a cuboid and comprises an upper panel, a lower bottom plate and peripheral plates. For convenience of hand carrying, the length range of the box body is 300-400 mm (380 mm is preferred), the width range is 200-300 mm (240 mm is preferred), and the height range is 80-150 mm (103 mm is preferred). The thickness of the wood board is 5-10 mm (preferably 7mm) in the range of the four-side board, 2-6 mm (preferably 4mm) in the range of the lower base board and 2-6 mm (preferably 3mm) in the range of the upper board. The upper panel is preferably made of basswood, and the lower bottom plate and the peripheral plate are preferably made of pine. Of course, the box body may have other shapes, the length, the width, the height, and the thickness of the wood board may have other values, and the wood board may also be made of other materials, which is not limited herein. The wood board may be printed with a pattern or hand-drawn with a pattern, and is not limited herein.

Unlike conventional wooden drum, the present invention adds an inverter and snare drum wire/sand strap 6 to the wooden drum in a sealed ported design. Through repeated calculation, two inverter tubes are added on one side of the wooden box drum, the low frequency of about 60hz can be generated through beating, and the placement distance of the two inverter tubes is preferably 50-100 mm (preferably 85 mm). The military drum noise line/sand belt is added in the wooden case drum, the flat row nails are arranged on the wood sheets and are placed on the other side opposite to the inverted pipe, the effect of vibrating the sand belt with the noise line in the military drum music is generated through light beating, and preferably, each width range is 30-80 mm (preferably 50mm), and the width range is 100-200 mm (preferably 145 mm).

As shown in figure 2, the invention can generate different sound effects by adding an inverter tube and a snare drum sound wire/sand belt and dividing the wooden case drum into three different knocking areas. In particular, the amount of the solvent to be used,

(I) a bass zone 100, which is a region near the inverter tube and generates a bass drum sound of about 60hz when struck;

(II) a high-sound zone 200 which is a zone far away from the inverter tube and can generate high-sound soundboard sound generated when the wood board is knocked by beating;

(III) the flicking area 300 is the two edge areas of the long edge of the wooden drum box, the effect of vibrating the sand belt with the sound line in the military drum music can be generated during flicking, wherein the effect of vibrating the sand belt with the sound line is more obvious when the corresponding area of the military drum sound line/sand belt is flicked than the other edge area.

With continued reference to fig. 1, the micro-programmable processor is electrically connected to the ultrasonic transducer and the audio sound processor. Specifically, an audio sound processor is electrically connected to the micro programmable processor, and a sound source module of the audio sound processor can receive externally connected real-time music in a wired or wireless (lap joint Bluetooth wireless module); the sound effect module of the audio sound processor performs various different sound effect processing on the sound effect of real-time music, for example, 16 different sound effects including reverberation, echo and distortion are selected, and a high-tone equalizer, a low-tone equalizer, a microphone amplifier and the like are additionally arranged for sound effect processing.

Furthermore, the real-time music processed by the sound effect of the audio sound processor amplifies the power to a resonance loudspeaker 8 through a sound amplifier 7, and the resonance loudspeaker makes the wooden drum become an independently applied sound box by using a resonance principle to play the real-time music;

the miniature programmable processor is electrically connected with the ultrasonic sensor, can sense the distance and the movement of a player, controls the playing sound effect of real-time music, for example, when the player is sensed, the real-time music starts to be played, if the player is sensed to be close to, the sound of the real-time music becomes larger, when the player is sensed to be far away, the sound of the real-time music becomes smaller, and when the player is not sensed, the playing of the real-time music is stopped.

As shown in FIG. 3, the micro-programmable processor is configured with a reset function, and when the reset button 9 is pressed, the micro-programmable processor is restarted; the indication lamp 10 is lighted to indicate that the real-time music is playing; the ultrasonic sensor switch button 11 is used to turn on and off the ultrasonic sensor.

As shown in fig. 4, 16 different sound effects can be selected by the sound effect selection knob 12; a sound effect output knob 13; Hi-Lo/high bass equalizer; a volume control knob 14; the switch button 15 comprises a sound effect module switch, a main power switch, a built-in micro programmable processor switch, a built-in loudspeaker switch and a Bluetooth output switch; a USB port 16 for updating the software of the built-in micro programmable processor; a stereo plug 17 for Aux audio input and audio output, respectively; a toggle selection button 18 for selecting either a wood box drumbeat output or a real-time music output. Of course, the sound effect processing is not limited to the above list, and the sound effect buttons will be increased or decreased accordingly.

As shown in fig. 3, the electronic wooden drum of the present invention further includes an external sensor connector 19, which can be externally connected with other sensors, such as a vibration sensor, an infrared sensor, a grip sensor, etc., to sense a player, so as to control the playing of real-time music. Of course the type of sensor is not limited to the above list.

As shown in fig. 3, in order to attract players (particularly players who need musical treatment) to participate in the musical performance near the wooden drum, a rotation ornament 20 (preferably a kaleidoscope) is built in, and the barrel of the kaleidoscope is preferably an isosceles triangle having a first side length at one end and an isosceles triangle having a second side length at the other end, and the first side length and the second side length may be the same or different; plastic PC soft lenses are pasted in the cylinder. The pattern box of the kaleidoscope is opposite to the long opening of the first edge, colorful fragments are placed in the pattern box to increase the patterns of the kaleidoscope, and the kaleidoscope can be connected with a diode, such as a self-flashing red, green and blue light-emitting diode, so that the ornamental property of the patterns is further increased.

In addition, a speed reducing motor (not shown) is also provided, preferably a slow speed motor with the working voltage of 3V-12V and the axle center rotating at the speed of 52 rpm.

A second embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of using the above electronic wooden drum, as shown in fig. 5, including:

step 501, turning on an inductor of the electronic wooden drum;

step 502, when the distance of the player is sensed to be within a set range, the micro programmable processor controls the audio sound processor to play real-time music through the sound amplifier and the resonance loudspeaker;

step 503, controlling the sound change of the real-time music according to the sensed distance between the player and the wooden drum within the set range.

Specifically, the ultrasonic sensor is started through an ultrasonic sensor switch button, or other sensors are externally connected through an externally connected sensor connector; taking the ultrasonic sensor as an example, when the distance of a player is sensed to be within a set range, preferably the distance of the player to the ultrasonic sensor is 280-560 mm, the micro programmable processor controls the audio sound processor to play real-time music through the sound amplifier and the resonance loudspeaker, and within the set range, if the player is sensed to be close to, the sound of the real-time music is controlled to be increased, and when the player is sensed to be far away from, the sound of the real-time music is controlled to be decreased; the player also adjusts the buttons according to the requirements to carry out various different sound effect processing on the sound effect of the real-time music. When the distance of the player is not sensed to be within the set range, the micro programmable processor controls to stop playing the real-time music.

The steps of the above methods are divided for clarity, and the implementation may be combined into one step or split some steps into multiple steps, which are within the scope of the present invention as long as the same logical relationship is included; it is within the scope of the present invention to add insignificant modifications to the algorithms or processes or to introduce insignificant designs without changing the core design of the algorithms or processes.

It should be understood that this embodiment is a method example corresponding to the first embodiment, and may be implemented in cooperation with the first embodiment. The related technical details mentioned in the first embodiment are still valid in this embodiment, and are not described herein again in order to reduce repetition. Accordingly, the related-art details mentioned in the present embodiment can also be applied to the first embodiment.

It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the foregoing embodiments are specific examples for carrying out the invention, and that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention in practice.