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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7667119 | Portable keyboard system A portable keyboard system having a pair of keyboards rigidly secured to and directed outward from one another. The keyboard system is secured to a user with shoulder straps, which allow the user to control one keyboard with each hand. The keyboards are separately a... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7314991 | Method of conveying musical information A method of conveying musical information is described. The method includes the steps of assigning sequential alphabetic and numeric designations as a system of reference to the physical location of individual piano keys on a piano keyboard, the physical location co... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7253349 | Engineers piano with bisymmetrical manuals and accompanying musical notation system A 2 manual musical keyboard with the pitch progression on one of the manuals reversed. The keys on these manuals are segregated into 2 groups of 2 different heights in the same way as a standard musical keyboard. The key configurations on these manuals have 12 semi-... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7183481 | Apparatus and method for embedding content within a MIDI data stream A method implemented on a data processing device is described comprising: generating supplemental data defining one or more characteristics of one or more light-emitting diodes (“LEDs”) on the data processing device; embedding the supplemental data within a musi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7094964 | Music performance data processing method and apparatus adapted to control a display Performance data processing apparatus includes a memory for storing settings input by a user and a processor for performing various control in accordance with the settings stored in the memory. Performance data are displayed in one or more display forms desired by t... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7038123 | Strumpad and string array processing for musical instruments A system for expanding generalizing aspects of an autoharp and making these functionalities beneficially available on other instruments. Strumpads comprising arrays of isolated touch switches, each generating distinct signals, are used to generate MIDI note events a... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6930235 | System and method for relating electromagnetic waves to sound waves A system for relating electromagnetic waves to harmonic sound waves that includes a memory with logic, and a processor configured with the logic to assign one fundamental color of a color spectrum of twelve analogous colors to one of twelve fundamental tones of a mu... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6740800 | Portable keyboard tremolo musical instrument A portable instrument with strings hammered by strikers operated by keys of a chromatic keyboard is described. The unique tremolo sounding of the strings is sensitively controllable by a players's touch on the keys as well as by manipulation of the instrument during... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6720492 | Portable keyboard An arrangement for facilitating the installation of an action in a piano body. The arrangement includes at least one adjusting medium being adapted to facilitate the positioning of the action with respect to a piano body, wherein the at least one adjusting medium is... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6703552 | Continuous music keyboard An apparatus and method for continuous keyboard system. The Continuous Music Keyboard resembles a traditional keyboard in that it is approximately the same size and is played with ten fingers. It also resembles a fretless string instrument in that it has ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6649821 | Keyboard musical instrument equipped with key-touch regulator provided between keys and stationery member A grand piano have a keyboard implemented by white and black keys selectively depressed by a player for specifying the notes of tones to be generated, and action units are linked with the white and black keys so as to give rise to free rotation of associa... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6452079 | Keyboard musical instrument equipped with hammer stopper promptly driven for rotation by means of rigid link work A composite keyboard musical instrument includes an acoustic grand piano, an electronic sound generating system and a silent system, and an electric motor, a hammer stopper, a link work and a controller form in combination the silent system, wherein rigid... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6392131 | Device for patterned input and display of musical notes A device for input of musical notes and chords, each triad including a plurality of musical notes and being classified into types according to a number of notes in the chord and the tonal relationship among the notes, includes a plurality of input devices... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6259006 | Portable foldable electronic piano Portable and foldable modular electronic keyboard which includes a keyboard having a plurality of white and black keys capable of reproducing the notes of a piano through an individual headphone by using associated electronics. The foldable keyboard is fo... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6194646 | Musical keyboards playing new kinds of music A new musical keyboard and musical scale is provided by subdividing each octave into a larger number of parts, or notes. In one case, each octave contains sixteen notes, rather than the conventional twelve. In another case, each octave contains twenty not... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5741990 | Method of and means for producing musical note relationships In a method of and means for producing musical note relationships there is provided an array of staggered lines or rows or columns of symbols, in which each symbol represents a musical note. Each line may comprise a repeated series of twelve symbols formi... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5404788 | Musical instrument with keyboard A keyboard for a musical instrument based on a twelve note per octave scale has keys on at least two playing rows, including a front playing row and a rear playing row. The front playing row includes keys for the notes "D.music-flat.", "E.music-flat.", "F... | 04/11/1995 |
| 4926734 | Graphic/tactile musical keyboard and nomographic music notation A graphic/tactile musical instruction system includes a three-row equal temperament whole tone graphic/tactile keyboard and a nomographic system of music notation. In a first embodiment of the keyboard, an upper row of keys produces the notes C.sup.# /D | 05/22/1990 |
| 4658695 | Multi-decked keyboard for musical instruments A multi-decked keyboard for musical instruments has three decks arranged for ease of playing with each hand. The primary deck is substantially a normal piano-like keyboard; the second deck is also substantially a normal piano-like keyboard except that the... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4352310 | Portable keyboard musical instrument The portable keyboard musical instrument employs two hollow tubes with either keyboards in each or one keyboard and one button cord unit, connection means at either end, a collar means with which to secure the two tubes and end caps to close off the non-c... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4123960 | Device for the manual playing of electronic musical instruments A console for use in playing an electronic musical instrument. Two manuals are slidably arranged on a stationary frame or desk, to slide sideways toward and away from each other. Each manual carries various keys and other movable control elements to be op... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4106388 | Keyboard unit for electronic musical instruments A keyboard unit for an electronic organ wherein the bed of the housing supports two adjustably mounted bearing members which are adjacent the inner sides of the respective side walls of the housing and have round holes for posts provided in the end portio... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4099437 | Remote control wireless keyboard musical instrument A musical instrument which comprises (i) a portable transmitter unit, (ii) a receiver unit, and (iii) a standard or modified piano, electronic organ, or other keyboard musical device. The transmitter unit has sixty keys, each of which corresponds to a key... | 07/11/1978 |
