Class 84/721 - Foot control

Subclass of Class 84 - Music
Definition: Subject matter wherein the mechanical feature is a foot
No. of patents: 37
Last issue date: 10/27/2009

Number	Title	Issue Date
7608776	Modular structures facilitating field-customized floor controllers The invention allows for easy field-customization of floor controllers using techniques that are similar to those applicable to the easy creation of aggregated instruments. The invention further facilitates entirely new manufacturing, marketing, and sales paradigms ...	10/27/2009
7326849	Foot-operated docking station for electronic modules used with musical instruments A modular docking station receives a variety of electronic modules, such as a tuner, effects processor, signal conditioner, signal distributor, and signal converter, for use with a musical instrument, such as a guitar. A base unit has a flat bottom portion and an an...	02/05/2008
7260535	Web server controls for web enabled recognition and/or audible prompting for call controls Web server controls are provided for generating client side markups with recognition and/or audible prompting to enable telephone call controls such as making, transferring and disconnecting telephone calls. ...	08/21/2007
7244165	Entertainment toy having multiple configurations An entertainment toy that can be disposed in multiple configurations is disclosed. In one embodiment, the entertainment toy includes a base having an upper surface, a support frame coupled to the base, and a seat that is configured to hold an infant. The seat is mov...	07/17/2007
6965070	Upright keyboard instrument An upright keyboard instrument comprises a prescribed number of keys that are interlocked with actions, hammer assemblies, and a plate spring unit, which is interlocked with a loud pedal. When the key is depressed, the action is activated to drive the hammer assembl...	11/15/2005
6777606	Automatic accompanying apparatus of electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument, a key operation detecting section detects a key operation on a keyboard, and the hand key operation contains a key pushing operation and a key releasing operation. A control unit detects a chord of a chord part in response to the...	08/17/2004
6762357	Resonance apparatus, resonance method and computer program for resonance processing Resonance is realized at a desired plurality of tone pitches even after the musical tone signals of a plurality of channels have been synthesized; synthesized musical tone signals are successively delayed, the musical tone signals that are successively delayed are w...	07/13/2004
6689947	Real-time floor controller for control of music, signal processing, mixing, video, lighting, and other systems A floor controller for real-time control of signal processors, synthesizers, musical instruments, MIDI processors, lighting, video, and special effects in performance, recording, and composition enviroments. Various combinations of physical controllers ma...	02/10/2004
6605769	Musical instrument digital recording device with communications interface A portable device is used for recording, editing, and replaying musical sounds generated by a musical instrument external to the device. The musical sounds are converted from analog to digital format, compressed for minimum storage usage, and stored in a ...	08/12/2003
6380475	Chord detection technique for electronic musical instrument A chord detection apparatus for an electronic musical instrument has a hand keyboard for hand operation, a foot keyboard for foot operation, a hand-keyboard detection unit for detecting a temporary hand-keyboard chord root and a temporary hand-keyboard ch...	04/30/2002
6201173	System for remotely playing a percussion musical instrument An arrangement for enabling facile and efficient operation of at least one bass drum mallet, in combination with at least one bass drum, such that the bass drum with its associated mallet can be placed in any desired location, within and beyond, a limited...	03/13/2001
5981862	Guitar effects pedal with foot operated overdrive control dial A guitar effects pedal system is provided including a base and a pair of ports mounted on the base for receiving an input cord to a guitar and an output core to an amplifier, respectively. An actuation pedal is situated on the pedal for actuating the syst...	11/09/1999
5886279	Switch mechanism of piano with built-in electronic musical instrument A switch mechanism of a piano with a built-in electronic musical instrument, which eliminates the disposition of switches on the surface of a piano to improve the appearance of the piano. An upright piano(1) includes a hammering mechanism(7) which strikes...	03/23/1999
5803835	Musical hop scotch game kit A game kit including a pliable hop scotch mat, an electrical actuated sound producing component and a plurality of individual electrical switches disposed between layers of the mat and adapted to be individually closed by pressure from a game participant ...	09/08/1998
5741995	Keyboard instrument for selectively producing mechanical sounds and synthetic sounds without any mechanical vibrations on music wires In order to give piano-like key touch to a player in an electronically sound producing mode, a keyboard incorporated in a musical instrument is linked with key action mechanisms associated with hammer mechanisms, and a stopper blocks the hammer shanks bef...	04/21/1998
5726374	Keyboard electronic musical instrument with guitar emulation function A polyphonic electronic musical instrument is provided wherein a keyboard is used to trigger arpeggiated chords which emulate a strumming guitar sound. Select keys are provided for selecting which notes are included in chords to be strummed. At least one ...	03/10/1998
5659145	Foot operated audio signal controller with lighted visual reference A foot-operated signal controlling pedal with a series of LED's integrated in the pedal housing to indicate signal level. The pedal may perform one or more of a variety of sound effect functions with any of the common circuits in use currently, with a par...	08/19/1997
5550321	Foot operated electronic musical apparatus A foot operated electronic musical instrument with a plurality of foot actuated pedals, which correspond to the notes produced by a bass guitar. Depressing a particular pedal causes an electronic tone generator to produce a corresponding note. Pedals are ...	08/27/1996
5391830	Foot pedal control system incorporated in musical instrument and shared between analog signal and digital signal A foot pedal control system incorporated in an electrical musical keyboard instrument is expected to decide an output signal of a foot control pedal unit to be either analog or digital signal on the basis of a series of discrete voltage levels through per...	02/21/1995
5350883	Electronic musical instrument with a pedal An electronic piano with a pedal, which can control various parameters by the pedal. The electronic piano has a mode switch for selecting a mode, and the electoronic piano switches parameters to be controlled by the pedal according to the selected mode by...	09/27/1994
5166467	Foot pedal operation of an electronic synthesizer A chord-generating synthesizer system including an electronic keyboard instrument and a remote control unit operable by a musician's foot--while the musician is using both hands to simultaneously play an instrument such as a guitar. The keyboard instrumen...	11/24/1992
5028776	High hat actuating system with photoelectric control means A high hat cymbals device is automatically actuated to hold the cymbals locked in place. The presence or absence of the drummer's foot on or above the foot pedal for actuating the high hat is sensed, and the cymbals held together if the drummer's foot is ...	07/02/1991
5022305	Tube overdrive pedal operable using low voltage DC battery eliminator The distortion pedal for electric guitar and other electronic musical instruments employs vacuum tube circuitry operated by low voltage "battery eliminator" DC power supply. A pull-up resistor biasing circuit on the vacuum tube grid improves input and out...	06/11/1991
4488468	Electronic musical instrument and compact pedal board and storage case therefor An electronic musical instrument including a compact, portable pedal board and a storage case for the pedal board and for the electronic components of the instrument is disclosed. The pedal board includes shortened foot pedals having a low profile and a v...	12/18/1984
4462294	Control unit for an electrical musical instrument Manually operable control apparatus for an electrical musical instrument such as an electronic organ having automatic chord circuitry which includes a plurality of spaced apart individually operable chord switches less in number than the number of chords ...	07/31/1984
4342244	Musical apparatus A musical apparatus including a novel combination by which a musician may control the output of a musical synthesizer, while playing his own musical instrument in a normal manner. The musical synthesizer may be pre-programmed for many unusual and exciting...	08/03/1982
4245539	Musical platform Apparatus for producing signals of varying volume and pitch which are functions of the magnitude and distribution respectively, of weight (or weights) placed upon a platform hinged at one corner and swingable in mutually orthogonal directions. Sensors con...	01/20/1981
4227432	Electronic musical instrument having multiplexed keying An electronic musical instrument having tone signal sources and keyers for the tone signal sources has a time division multiplexer for multiplexing the key-down information in groups such as for the upper manual, lower manual and pedals. The keyers are pr...	10/14/1980
4211141	Pedal control circuits for electronic piano Pedal control circuits for use with an electronic musical instrument, such as a piano, which provide control functions analogous to the actions of a sustaining pedal, of a sostenuto pedal, and of a volume pedal of a conventional piano. Damper circuits ope...	07/08/1980
4200025	Foot-operated control device A foot-operated control device for musical instruments includes a self-contained sounding member which can be struck by a beater pivotally attached to the device....	04/29/1980
4185530	Automatic glissando A circuit intended for use with electronic organs and, more specifically, with those electronic organs in which the keyboard switches are multiplexed, and which circuit provides a method for automatically sounding in succession either the natural notes (w...	01/29/1980
4129056	Pedal control circuits for electronic piano Pedal control circuits for use with an electronic musical instrument, such as a piano, which provide control functions analogous to the actions of a sustaining pedal, of a sustenuto pedal, and of a volume pedal of a conventional piano. Damper circuits ope...	12/12/1978
4121488	Step-on type tone scale play device A step-on type tone scale play device has a flexible mat within which is arranged a plurality of flexible switch elements in accordance with a tone scale and is adapted to produce corresponding music sounds when marks configured on the surface of a mat to...	10/24/1978
4100831	Automatic digital circuit for generating chords in a digital organ An automatic chord generating circuit for a digital polyphonic tone synthesizer having one or more keyboards. Key operated switches are connected in groups corresponding to the notes in an octave. A signal source is selectively connected by the closed swi...	07/18/1978
4043242	Circuit for musical instrument An electronic circuit connected to and operated by the bass buttons of an accordion to simulate a string bass instrument. The circuit can be disposed in the accordion or remote from the accordion. Each button has a switch associated therewith which couple...	08/23/1977
3986425	Bass signal control circuit This invention relates to a circuit for use in an electronic musical instrument such as an organ, the instrument having two separate sources of bass signals and transducing elements for converting the bass signals into a sound output. The circuit is opera...	10/19/1976
3939751	Tunable electrical musical instrument An electronic musical instrument including two or more keyboards individually capable of selecting, simultaneously, any twelve out of at least 1,024 discrete pitches per octave to produce scales of twenty-four or more notes per octave using conventional k...	02/24/1976

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