Body-Supported Flute Lyre Design to Reduce Bouncing During Marching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional flute lyres are unstable and tend to bounce when the player moves, making it difficult for flute or piccolo players to read music while marching or performing.
Innovation Solution
A flute lyre design that includes a music holder with a body comprising a neck member, support member, and arm member, formed from a continuous piece of wire, which contacts the user's neck, torso, and arm to provide stability, allowing the lyre to remain secure without attaching to the flute itself.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional flute lyres use spring clamps and rods to secure to the instrument, then the lyre can be attached to the flute, but the lyre becomes unstable and bounces when the player moves
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the attachment mechanism from the flute itself and extracts the support function to be provided by the player's body. The lyre body is designed to rest against the player's torso, neck, and arm rather than attaching to the instrument, eliminating the bouncing problem caused by instrument attachment while maintaining secure positioning through body contact points.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of support from instrument-based to body-based. By redesigning the lyre to contact the player's neck, torso, and arm at specific points, the system transforms from an instrument-mounted device to a body-supported device, fundamentally altering how stability is achieved and eliminating the bouncing issue.
2Ease of operation
If the flute lyre is designed to wrap around the forearm, then it can be held in place by the user, but it becomes unstable when the player moves or marches
Solution Approach 1:
The lyre body is segmented into multiple contact points distributed across different body regions (neck member contacting posterior neck, base support contacting anterior torso, arm member contacting arm). This segmentation allows each point to independently maintain contact during movement, providing overall stability that a single forearm-wrapping design cannot achieve.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a two-dimensional forearm-wrapping design to a three-dimensional body-contacting structure. The lyre contacts the player at multiple spatial dimensions (neck, torso, arm), creating a distributed support system that maintains stability during dynamic movement rather than relying on a single plane of contact.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the lyre is secured to the flute, then it remains fixed to the instrument, but it bounces and becomes unstable during marching or dynamic performance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts the player's body movements, which would normally cause bouncing, into a stabilizing mechanism. The body-contacting design allows the lyre to move with the player's natural motions rather than resist them, converting potential harmful bouncing into beneficial synchronized movement that maintains reading stability during marching and dynamic performance.
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AI summary
A flute lyre includes a music holder and a body attached to the music holder. The body includes a neck member, a support member, and an arm member extending between the neck member and the support member. The support member includes a base support and a music holder support. The neck member is configured to extend about and contact a user's neck, and the base support is configured to contact the user's torso when the flute lyre is positioned on the user. The music holder support is positioned on an exterior side of an arm of the user, and the arm member is positioned between the user's arm and the user's torso for contacting the user's arm when the flute lyre is positioned on the user and the user holds the flute in the playing position. Other example flute lyres and methods of constructing flute lyres are also disclosed.