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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7956271 | Musical rhythmic teaching block system A set of music instructional blocks includes a number of blocks having mating magnets on two opposing sides thereof and musical indicia on the four remaining sides. The musical indicia represent standard rhythmic notes, musical rests and time signatures. The blocks ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7709721 | Music and math teaching system A music and math teaching system teaches fraction computations utilizing musical note names and note values in the form of blocks with varying lengths while simultaneously teaching rhythmic topics of time signatures, beats, and tempo. A rhythm board is used to mount... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7687702 | System and method for teaching music A system for teaching music and an associated method of teaching music. The system and method for teaching music use multiple bodies that are each associated with a unique letter that corresponds to the letters A through G from the Latin alphabet and each body has a... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7396988 | Method and apparatus for music composition A music composition method and apparatus is provided and consists of a plurality of small playing cubes each having a color-coded musical chord with a number to indicate the position of the chord within the matching color-coded musical key of a separate, larger cube... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7238026 | Activity device A multiple-sided activity device for toy blocks is disclosed. The activity device has a first side including a first activity adapted to interact with at least one of the plurality of toy blocks. The activity device also has a second side distinct from the first sid... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7212213 | Color display instrument and method for use thereof A method for graphically displaying on a display device, a musical note in a range of notes within an octave, in a range of octaves. The method including, determining the display attributes of a reference octave selected from the range of octaves, receiving a musica... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7134457 | Method of weaving braille and woven braille textile A method of weaving Braille and/or the resulting woven Braille textile may assist sighted persons in determining the woven Braille cells by differentiating the colors of each number 1 through number 6 Braille cell warp thread. A method of weaving Braille and/or the ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7094960 | Musical score display apparatus A musical score display apparatus reads note data and lyric data, and displays the read note data and lyric data on a displayed musical score. In the case where the lyric data are displayed to match the displayed note data, a position where character strings of the ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7021340 | Method of and loom for teaching Braille Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method of and loom for teaching Braille by weaving with a loom, wherein the levers to move the harnesses are shaped and spaced like the levers on a Perkins Brailler (a Braille typewriter). ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7011525 | Encoding system combining language elements for rapid advancement A system and method for literacy and language instruction that can be practiced with graphophonic word-building blocks, learning activities, software, an electronic device, and educational card/dice/bingo, etc. games with multi-sensory learning that revolves around ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6967274 | System and method for teaching music A system and method for teaching music both visually and tactilely. In one embodiment, the invention comprises blocks shaped to resemble musical symbols used to compose music, including time signatures, notes, rests, and dots. Each of the blocks are relative in thic... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6921855 | Analysis program for analyzing electronic musical score An analysis programs, apparatus, and method is provided for analyzing electronic musical scores. The invention relates to analyzing an electronic musical score that designates a desired musical note sequence in electronic musical score data, extracts a musical note ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6545208 | Apparatus and method for controlling display of music score Supply section supplies performance data of a music piece, and a processor, coupled with a display device and the supply section, controls the display device to display a music score of the music piece using a predetermined basic display block. On the bas... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6469238 | Method and apparatus for teaching rhythm Rhythm, beat, choreography, and body movement are taught, and a coordination system for rehabilitation provided, using an apparatus having a base, vertical time-indicators, and beat marks. Students or patients clap, or perform similar functions when the t... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6366758 | Musical cube An apparatus for facilitating an understanding and recognition of polyphonic and orchestral music in infants and small children includes a housing, a speaker within the housing, a plurality of input devices such as buttons positioned on the housing; and a... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6353168 | Educational music instrument for children The educational music instrument is a musical toy that allows one or more musical sequences to be played. The toy includes a base with a signal processing unit and five receiving portions. The toy also includes five blocks which are configured to be inser... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6271453 | Musical blocks and clocks A music education apparatus for teaching musical concepts, comprising note meaning and pitch recognition, music reading, instrument playing, tempo, staccato, degrees of loudness, note duration, rhythm, harmony, chords, trills, the sonic characteristics of... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6175069 | Music instruction apparatus A music instruction apparatus. The apparatus includes a support frame (13), a plurality of blocks (22) in rotating connection with the support frame. The blocks are organized in an array pattern of thirteen rows (101-113) and eight columns (121-128). Each... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6018117 | Device for familiarizing a child with a musical instrument A device for familiarizing a child with a keyboard of a musical instrument and for familiarizing a child with musical concepts. The device comprises at least two blocks, each block having a top face which comprises indicia resembling at least one of the k... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5949010 | Musical blocks A music education apparatus for teaching musical concepts. The music education apparatus comprises a block with visual representations on each side designating musical notes, letters representing musical notes, and physical portions on musical instruments... | 09/07/1999 |
| 4924743 | Musical dancing block set A block set includes a plurality of sounding blocks which can be optionally arranged and each block is provided an electronic or a mechanical sounding device in the block so that upon a treading on an individual block by a player's foot, the sounding bloc... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4819539 | Music teaching system and apparatus An educational method and apparatus for teaching reading of music to a musical instrument user. One display case is utilized with a treble clef indicia. Another display case is utilized with a base clef indicia. Each case contains unlabeled compartments a... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4736665 | Musical language game A musical language game including a plurality of board modules with musical staff lines in the form of painted grooves on one face of the board. A series of grooves are defined on another face of the board. Melody pieces permit forming of the notes on the... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4651613 | Musical block A music box toy including a cube having a recess formed in each of the six faces, each of the recesses being disposed to receive a separate music box which plays a separate tune. The toy includes a cover disposed around the cube and the cover includes an ... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4417497 | Stringed musical instrument teaching device and process A teaching device for stringed musical instruments used by a player thereof to identify, practice and make changes between notes of scales of different keys. It is constructed of a simulated fingerboard comprising a rigid support surface (56) with magneti... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4271744 | Musical toy A musical toy includes a bellows for creating a flow of air and an air tube connecting the bellows to a musical instrument such as a harmonica or a plurality of whistles. The musical instrument is selectively moved relative to the outlet of the air tube t... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4128037 | Apparatus for displaying practice lessons for drummers A device for teaching and/or practicing the art of drumming comprises an array of tiles disposed within a frame. The tiles bear in each case indicia to indicate a type of percussive stroke, the component or components of a set of trap drums with which sai... | 12/05/1978 |
| 3982463 | Piano-like musical instrument A piano-like musical instrument to be played by a group of people including individual tone blocks each played by one person using a music score coded to that one person's note. The tone blocks may be arranged as an oversized piano keyboard or may be sepa... | 09/28/1976 |
