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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183455 | Removable inline signal interrupter for electric guitar A removable inline signal interrupter having a male/female combination plug, the male portion of the plug insertable into an electric guitar output receptacle, the female portion of the male/female plug having an internal negative-negative connection and an internal... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8129608 | Automatic playing and recording apparatus for acoustic/electric guitar Automatic playing and recording apparatuses for an acoustic/electric guitar allow a user to play in concert along with music of other musical instruments outputted by an automatic playing apparatus by adding the automatic playing apparatus to an acoustic/electric gu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7767902 | String array signal processing for electronic musical instruments System and method expanding and generalizing string selection aspects of an autoharp and applying to general forms of string arrays. String vibration may be sympathetic or induced by strumming, plucking, and/or electrical drive transducers. Volume of individual vibr... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7554028 | Performance assist apparatus of wind instrument In an apparatus for assisting play of a wind instrument, an actuator is attached to the wind instrument for vibrating a portion of the wind instrument so as to assist play of the wind instrument. A microphone receives a vibration of a sound generated by the wind ins... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7435895 | Automatic playing system used for musical instruments and computer program used therein for self-teaching An automatic playing system is independent of acoustic pianos, and is designed to perform music tunes expressed by sets of MIDI music data codes on the acoustic pianos; since the acoustic pianos have their own individualities, control parameter table, which were pre... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7361827 | Transducer free from aged deterioration, musical instrument using the same and method used therein An electronic system, which serves as a recorder and an automatic player, is installed in an automatic player piano, and hammer sensors, which are implemented by photo couplers, report current hammer positions through analog signals to a data processor so that the d... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358429 | Magnetized frets for a stringed musical instrument The present invention is concerned with providing a fret for a stringed musical instrument having strings containing ferromagnetic material, wherein the fret is arranged to be magnetic. Having a downward magnetic force exerted on the strings by a fret ensures full a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355110 | Stringed musical instrument having a built in hand-held type computer An apparatus and method is disclosed for storing, editing, deleting and visually displaying personal information within a stringed musical instrument. A hand-held type computer (34) located in and forming a portion of the envelope or housing of the stringed m... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351905 | Apparatus for powering an electronic musical instrument Apparatus for providing electrical power to signal conditioner circuitry inside a musical instrument having a signal output jack mounted thereon to carry a conditioned music signal via a signal cable to a remote location. The power source is a battery mounted inside... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7332669 | Acoustic piano with MIDI sensor and selective muting of groups of keys A high technology acoustic piano includes a piano body. A musical keyboard is mounted on the piano body. Keys are connected to the action for operating the hammers to strike strings. Strings adjacent to the hammers are arranged in different groups according to frequ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7323629 | Real time music recognition and display system Systems and methods for performing simple and quick real time single music note recognition algorithm based on fuzzy pattern matching are disclosed. In one aspect, the systems and methods use a 256-point FFT and fuzzy pattern identification and recognition method. T... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7304232 | Joystick gain control for dual independent audio signals A joystick control (20) mounted on the body (12) of an electric guitar (11) adjacent to the customarily picked section of the strings (16) provides convenient simultaneous independent gain control of two pickup signals. A pick may be held... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7262359 | Digital recording device for electric guitars and the like A digital recording device includes a housing that is engageable with a lower curvature of a guitar's frame. The housing includes an arcuate inner surface, an arcuate outer surface coextensively shaped with the inner surface, and a padded member conjoined to the ext... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7247789 | Soundhole accessible musical instrument control platform A soundhole accessible musical instrument control platform mounted inside the body of a musical instrument requires no physical alterations to the instrument, allowing the user convenient and ergonomic access to the control platform through the soundhole while using... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7060889 | Strap amplifier An apparatus for amplifying the sound of a stringed instrument includes, in its most basic form, a speaker attached to a strap that is adapted to be draped around a musician with each end thereof detachably-attachable to the stringed instrument. An amplifier circuit... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7060888 | Movable stringed instrument pickup system A pivoting electromagnetic pickup device is provided. The invention generally is comprised of an elongated support structure, an electromagnetic pickup, a pivoting means, and an angular position locking means. The extremity of the elongated support structure is pivo... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6946594 | Method for reproducing the sound of an accordion electronically Method for electronically reproducing the sound of an acoustic accordion, that is provided with a number of keys/buttons, which can be pressed individually so as to excite a corresponding number of reeds that are coupled with every single key/button; for electronica... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6946592 | Plectrum for a string instrument, a transmitter/receiver arrangement and a signal processing apparatus A plectrum for a stringed musical instrument having a plurality of conductive strings is provided with a non-conductive body and a conductive tip. The conductive tip is sized so as to fleetingly contact a string when the string is plucked with a plectrum. The tip is... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6737572 | Voice controlled electronic musical instrument The invention is an electronic, voice-controlled musical instrument. It is in essence an electronic kazoo. The player hums into the mouthpiece, and the device imitates the sound of a musical instrument whose pitch and volume change in response to the player's voice.... | 05/18/2004 |
| 5977474 | Continuously variable circuit for producing an output signal having a continuously variable amount of clean and distorted signals An amplifier circuit for providing a combined clean and dirty output signal from an electric guitar. The circuit comprises a panning pedal that has two potentiometers attached thereto so that movement of the panning pedal results in two continuously varyi... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5866834 | Digitally controlled analog electric stringed musical instrument and apparatus An electric stringed musical instrument that produces and processes electric signals through an analog circuit has the analog circuit digitally controlled. The digital control is preferably such that it enables desired preset conditions for the analog cir... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5814752 | Musical instrument crossover circuits and method of using same A musical instrument amplifier system (FIGS. 1 and 2) with a frequency selective crossover circuit (10) using passive band pass filters (36, 44) to separate the amplified signals from the power amplifier (14) of an amplifier system (12) into low frequency... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5780760 | Guitar pickup switching system for three-pickup guitar A guitar pickup switching system has a single-coil treble pickup, a single-coil middle pickup, and a single-coil rhythm pickup for an electric guitar. A switch arrangement allows the guitar player to select outputs of the pickups in any one of the followi... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5731535 | Proximity sensitive control circuit for electrical musical instrument A control circuit for use with a guitar or other musical instrument having an electromechanical pickup for converting natural vibrations of the instrument into electrical signals amplified or otherwise conditioned by a sound system to produce a derivative... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5723804 | Electric monophonic/stereophonic stringed resonator instrument An electric monophonic/stereophonic stringed resonator instrument includes a body, a resonator assembly mounted on the guitar body, and strings connected to the body. A pickup responsive to string movement and a transducer responsive to resonator assembly... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5455381 | PIE20 electric pickup with adjustable string output An intonation adjustment system is provided for a stringed instrument. A saddle setup tool has a plurality of selectable, distinctly spaced intonation points so that a preferred one of the selectable, distinctly spaced intonation points can be determined ... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5422956 | Sound parameter controller for use with a microphone A microphone is provided with sensors to detect pitch and roll of the microphone and pressure applied to the microphone. The sensor signals are mapped by control circuitry to control desired effects such as reverberation, vibrato and tremolo to be applied... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5218160 | String instrument sound enhancing method and apparatus A sound enhancing apparatus for use with a string instrument has separate tone pick-ups for picking up the tones of individual strings and circuits for, determining the fundamental tones of these tones, multiplying the frequencies of these fundamental ton... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5069107 | Electronic musical instrument in which a musical tone is controlled in accordance with a digital signal A breath detection signal from a breath sensor section is converted to a digital breath detection signal, and when the value of the detection signal exceeds a preset value, a tone is generated. After the tone generation, a tone parameter of the tone being... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5024133 | Electronic musical instrument with improved generation of wind instruments The purpose of the present invention is to offer an electronic musical instrument which can synthesize the sound of brass instruments with fidelity and furthermore in real time. In order to achieve the above purpose, the musical sound synthesis algorithm ... | 06/18/1991 |
| 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 |
| 5014589 | Control apparatus for electronic musical instrument for generating musical tone having tone pitch corresponding to input waveform signal A pitch is extracted from an input waveform signal, and a musical tone having a corresponding tone pitch is generated. In this case, a signal intensity at the leading edge of the input waveform signal is detected to determine a tone volume of the musical ... | 05/14/1991 |
| 5007324 | Special effects control for portable musical instrument A portable musical instrument and associated therewith a radio frequency transmitter for broadcasting to a remote receiver and audio amplifier the sounds generated by the instrument. The user-operated controls vary the sound level sent by the transmitter,... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5001960 | Apparatus for controlling reproduction on pitch variation of an input waveform signal An input waveform signal representing, for example, a string oscillation is input to a pitch extraction circuit. The pitch extraction circuit extracts a pitch frequency from the input waveform signal, and this pitch frequency is input to a RAM connected t... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4980519 | Three dimensional baton and gesture sensor An electronic drum has two or more batons, each baton having a transmitter which transmits a distinct radio frequency signal at a position in space. The electronic drum determines the current X, Y, and Z coordinates of each baton transmitter. To determine... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4939501 | Sliding foot controller A foot-operated controller is disclosed herein having a housing enclosing an elongated resistive element carried on the underside of a top panel midway between its opposite sides. The top panel is provided with a slot slidably accommodating an electrical ... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4915008 | Air flow response type electronic musical instrument A breath detection signal from a breath sensor section is converted to a digital breath detection signal, and when the value of the detection signal exceeds a preset value, a tone is generated. After the tone generation, a tone parameter of the tone being... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4884486 | Electronic scratch filter for bowed instruments The tone signal from a transducer monitoring the music vibrations of a bowed musical instrument contains an objectionable friction noise component which is removed by passing the tone signal through a high-pass filter having a variable cutoff frequency wh... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4797932 | Speaker volume control apparatus and method Apparatus and method for establishing and changing the volume level of a tone generator which may be used in connection with auditory feedback in a point of sale terminal or other business machine include a microprocessor having a timer with two settable ... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4679479 | Electronic drum An electronic drum includes a relatively hard surface layer, a relatively hard base layer, a relatively hard coupling portion, and a detection element. The base layer is spaced apart from the surface layer by a predetermined distance. The coupling portion... | 07/14/1987 |
