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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7238876 | Method of automated musical instrument finger finding A computerized automated method for determining fingering of musical instruments from digitized scored music or tablature. The computerized automated finger finder method determines fingering such that hand movement is minimized on a specified instrument for maximum... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7176371 | Algorithmic combo-instrument slide ruler for musical reference An algorithmic combo-instrument slide ruler comprising one common part working in cooperation with two interchangeable parts selected from separate multitudes of unique yet related parts. An opaque slidable combo-instrument tuning card is selected having thereon inf... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7119270 | Geometric system and method for generating tone using fluid A polyphonic instrument comprises a geometric system coupled with a user interface and a method for generating tone using fluid. The geometric system is arranged such that each point corresponds to a mechanism underlying a malleable surface and is sequentially based... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6670535 | Musical-instrument controller with triad-forming note-trigger convergence points A musical instrument controller provides an array keyboard in which most note triggers form major 3rd, minor 3rd, and perfect fifth intervals at line segment boundaries with adjacent note triggers, and form major and minor triads at vertices or other conv... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6288315 | Method and apparatus for musical training Provided is an apparatus directed to identifying desired combinations of musical notes. The apparatus includes a base imprinted with plural different indicia, each different indicium corresponding to a different musical note. For example, the indicia migh... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6265651 | Gauge for selecting musical instrument strings The present invention is a gauge for selecting musical instrument strings. It includes a base member and at least one movable member that is engaged to the base member, and which provides information related to specific musical strings. In preferred embod... | 07/24/2001 |
| 5644096 | Musical computational devices Disclosed is apparatus comprising at least two elements whose positions relative to each other are alterable, and in which at least a portion of each element is visible during use of the apparatus, and wherein a first of said elements exhibits an indicate... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5535659 | Transposition rule for musical theory A transposition rule for musical theory for the visual indication of the sequence of notes of musical scales and/or chords in the various keys of a tone system. The transposition rule includes an elongated base member which is provided with fixed scales, ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5524522 | Music learning aid A music learning aid has a base and a sliding template. The template has windows which allow viewing of musical information imprinted on the base at different positions. Each position is selected by being able to view a keynote through a window so that th... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5415071 | 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 (1) of symbols, in which each symbol represents a musical note. Each line (1) comprises a repeated series of twelve symbols forming a m... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5386757 | Universal musical scale, scale pattern, and chord indicator A device for demonstrating musical scales and chords in various tonics for use with a fretted stringed musical instrument. A housing is of a slide-rule nature and has a transparent simulated fingerboard positioned within a display window. This fingerboard... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5288234 | Device for composing and decomposing chords and scales This invention consists of a device for composing, decomposing, retransposing and retranscribing all chords and scales contained in music. The device in question comprises two superimposed disks of different diameters, joined at their center by a pin enab... | 02/22/1994 |
| 4552052 | Modulation rule A modulation rule having a member marked with a keyboard including white keys and black keys arranged in a similar manner to that of a keyboard musical instrument, and an indication table in which the names of keys are marked, for which the keys marked on... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4305323 | Harmonic conversion wheel A Harmonic Conversion Wheel is disclosed comprising a circular disk, a faceplate and attaching means joined together along a common axis which is the centerpoint of said elements. By rotation of the disk about said axis and proper registration of said dis... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4074607 | Music magic circular calculator There is disclosed a device of the calculating rule type that is useful in music analysis to assist in spelling chords and determining scales, transposing of chords or notes, identifying key signatures, determining minor keys relative to their major keys,... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4002097 | Chord progression selector A chord inversion coordination aid comprises a plurality of dials of increasing diameter and each representing a particular chord type and having a peripheral array of the scale tone names of the chord in its root and inverted positions arranged in sector... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3960046 | Music teaching device A music teaching device in which the musical scale is marked on a circular disc co-operable with a second disc bearing musical information the two discs being relatively rotatable about their centers to relatively align the scale markings with the informa... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3937118 | Inversion sliderule The invention is a musical aid used to simplify the comprehension of chord inversion structure and enable the composer to more readily visualize the keyboard location and fingering of chords and their inversions used in a composition, the device having a ... | 02/10/1976 |
