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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7893336 | Illuminated musical control channel controller An illuminated controller for a musical control channel, having: a light transmitting body; a mounting system holding a bottom end of the light transmitting body such that the light transmitting body can be positioned at different angular positions; a handle at a to... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7427707 | Stringed musical instrument neck assemblies Described herein are fingerboards and neck assemblies for use with stringed musical instruments. The neck assembly can include a light-system disposed therein. The light system has a light matrix of light elements. The fingerboard is adapted to conceal the presence ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7402746 | Training apparatus for learning to play the guitar A training apparatus for guiding and independently teaching a user to quickly play a guitar by interpreting stored encoded MIDI music data to guide the user's hands by illuminating sequences of desired finger positions on the frets of a guitar to play the music.... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394010 | Performance apparatus and tone generation method therefor A Plurality of key switches for tone-generating are arranged two-dimensionally. Mode setting section sets a tone adjusting mode in which the key switches are caused to function as tone-adjusting operators. In the tone adjusting mode, adjustment of a predetermined to... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7390958 | Method for teaching music One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for teaching music to one or more students. The instructor's manual operation of a musical instrument controls in real-time the illumination of guide lamps on each student's musical instrument. This allows ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7381878 | Musical instrument display A visual display mounted on a musical instrument for use as a teaching aid, for teaching fingerings and chords, a performing aid for displaying information relevant to a user's performance, and a visual effects aid, for displaying visual effects to an audience while... | 06/03/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7323633 | Methods and apparatus for transmitting finger positions to stringed instruments having a light-system The invention provides systems and methods of for displaying on a second instrument finger positions that were played on a first instrument. A teacher, for example, can play notes and/or chords on a first stringed instrument having a sensor. A processing having a de... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321094 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument internally stores automatic performance data. The electronic musical instrument reads automatic performance data to perform an automatic performance, while incrementing melody tone pitch data contained in the automatic performance da... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7309827 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument provides a player with an assisted performance to offer him/her the pleasure of performing on a musical instrument, and to help him/her in practicing the electronic musical instrument on which a tone pitch of a musical tone to be gen... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7288705 | Method for teaching musical notation and composition A method for teaching musical notation from rhythm. A musical rhythm is demonstrated to the pupils, and is associated with a worksheet having a plurality of blanks, the blanks each representing a beat of the rhythm and being grouped in accordance with the rhythm. Th... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7271328 | Virtual instrument An exemplary retainer ring for a head of an acoustic drum can produce a visual display that allows an observer to visualize timing associated with percussive sound. An exemplary retainer ring includes a vertical wall disposed at a radius about a central axis and a l... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270602 | Keyboard game program and keyboard game device A game program KGP for playing a game by operating a keyboard connected with a computer in response to a picture displayed on a monitor 9 has a procedure for detecting and computing number of keys (S2 through S9), for detecting and computing num... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7231060 | Systems and methods of generating control signals Separating a source in a stereo signal having a left channel and a right channel includes transforming the signal into a short-time transform domain; computing a short-time similarity measure between the left channel and the right channel; classifying portions of th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227075 | Lighting controller In the present invention, a lighting controller is provided to provide illumination based upon the playing of musical instruments. The lighting controller is programmed with lighting profiles which control the lights on a device. When musical instrument is played, a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220906 | String-instrument type electronic musical instrument Light emitting sections are provided in proximity to a plurality of performance operators that are provided, on the body of an electronic musical instrument, for performing tone-generation instructing operation corresponding to operation of strings on a natural musi... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7214897 | Illuminated keyboard with illuminated patterns displayed on top surface of keyboard An illuminated keyboard with illuminated figures being formed on the top surface of the keyboard including: a top cover, a bottom cover, a plurality of keys and an electroluminescent board. The top cover accommodates the keys and is combined with the bottom cover. T... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7119265 | Illuminated musical instrument A wind instrument such as a recorder or a flute is disclosed. The wind instrument may include a body fabricated from a clear or translucent light-transmitting material, with or without color. The body includes a compartment and a light source retained within the com... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7115810 | Programmable/semi-programmable pickup and transducer switching system A programmable/semi-programmable pickup and transducer switching system includes a control, a plurality of switches communicatively interconnected to the control, an encoder communicatively interconnected to the control, a memory/buffer/drive with switching element ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7112734 | Effects of flow improvement in tapered design The present invention is directed to an improved flute-type instrument having a reduced bore diameter in the head section, a conical bore in the intermediate section and a standard sized bore diameter in the main section. The reduced bore diameter in the head sectio... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7064259 | Electronic guitar training device A training device includes a tubular sleeve mounted to the guitar neck. The sleeve extends along a longitudinal length of the guitar neck and has an open and a closed end portion. A plurality of light-emitting diodes are connected in series and nested within the sle... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7038399 | Methods and apparatus for providing power to lighting devices Methods and apparatus for providing power to devices via an A.C. power source, and for facilitating the use of LED-based light sources on A.C. power circuits that provide signals other than standard line voltages. In one example, LED-based light sources may be coupl... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6969796 | Automatic music performing apparatus and automatic music performance processing program An automatic music performing apparatus comprises a performance memory for storing music performance data of a relative time format including an event group including at least note-on events indicating the note generation start, note-off events indicating the end of... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6924424 | Illuminated musical instrument A wind instrument such as a recorder or a flute is disclosed. The wind instrument may include a body fabricated from a clear or translucent light-transmitting material, with or without color. The body includes a compartment and a light source retained within the com... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6815599 | Musical instrument A musical instrument has play pistons incorporated in a trumpet-shaped housing at the upper central part in the front-and-back direction. An air vibration sensor for inputting voices is provided at the end surface on the front side of housing. When a player inputs v... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6803512 | Musical tone generating apparatus, plucked string instrument, performance system, electronic musical instrument, musical tone generation control method, and program for implementing the method There is provided a musical tone generating apparatus which enables beginners inexperienced in musical performance and like players to play a musical instrument such as an electronic harp without practicing repeatedly. The musical instrument has a plurality of opera... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6781049 | Stringed musical instrument neck mounted light emitting optical display array An attachable and removable Light Emitting Diode array adhesively adhered to the top edge surface of a stringed instrument fretboard and fretboard. The device uses independently wired electronically driven (LED's) positioned at or near each standard embedded fret lo... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6586666 | Electronic musical instrument There is provided an electronic musical instrument which enables the whole periphery of at least one pad member to shine by a simple construction, and at the same time maintain durability and low costs, and a shining method therefor. An electronic musical... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6452081 | Stringed instrument finger positioning guide and method for teaching students to read music The present invention is directed to a device for teaching students of stringed instruments note locations and proper finger placement on the fingerboard of the instrument. The device may be adapted for use with either a fretted or non-fretted instrument.... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6444887 | String-plucking type electronic musical instrument with photo sensor for generating signal for sound An electronic musical instrument of the string-plucking type which does not create a large time lag from when the musical instrument is operated until when the sound is produced, and does not cause a detection mechanism to become complex. A photo sensor (... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6423891 | Illuminated drumstick incorporating compression spring for ensuring continuous and biasing contact An illuminating drumstick having an elongated body with a hollowed interior extending substantially between a tip end and an open butt end. A threadably engageable end cap secures over the butt end. A power supply is contained within a housing axially ins... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6348649 | Scale indicator for a keyboard instrument A scale indicator has a key selecting device and multiple illuminating devices. The key selecting device is arranged on the keybed of the keyboard. The player can use the key selecting device to choose the musical key for the music that he or she wants to... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6342663 | Musical performance training apparatus and record medium with musical performance training program A musical performance training apparatus communicates with a musical instrument having light emitting elements for respective operation elements (e.g., musical keys). The apparatus sequentially reads, in advance, respective note data of a musical performa... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6337433 | Electronic musical instrument having performance guidance function, performance guidance method, and storage medium storing a program therefor There are provided an electronic musical instrument having a performance guidance function and a performance guidance method which enable a player to easily carry out a smooth and ideal performance even if the player is a beginner, and a storage medium st... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6225544 | Music instrument illuminator and positioning aid A removably attachable musical instrument and illuminator positioning accessory is disclosed which comprises at least one laser beam emitter which serves to generally illuminate a particular portion of the instrument, and to particularly illuminate the ar... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6222109 | Music performance training apparatus and recording medium having a training program stored thereon A succession of music note data are provided. Those music note data which partially overlap in duration are corrected so that they completely overlap in duration. The corrected music note data are used for music navigation. As a result, the apparatus can ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6211452 | Electronic musical instrument having a function of dividing performance information into phrases and displaying keys to be operated for each phrase Plural key-displaying elements are provided in corresponding relation to plural keys. A series of performance information is divided into plural phrases, namely sections, and for each of the phrases, the displays corresponding to keys to be performed with... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6169239 | Method and system for visually coding a musical composition to indicate musical concepts and the level of difficulty of the musical concepts A method and system for visually coding a musical composition to indicate musical concepts defined by the musical notation and the level of difficulty of the musical concepts. First, a set of musical concepts is defined. Next, a musical composition is pro... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6037534 | Keyboard musical instrument and electric tutor for guiding fingers on keyboard An electric tutor is assembled with an upright piano having a keyboard and a key stop rail laterally extending over the rear end portions of the black/white keys, and includes a comb-like flexible indicator attached to the key stop rail, wherein the comb-... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6025550 | Musical performance training data transmitters and receivers, and storage mediums which contain a musical performance training program A musical performance training system includes a transmitter which transmits training musical note data for training musical performance, and a receiver which receives the training musical note data from the transmitter and instructs a trainee to practice... | 02/15/2000 |
