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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8008563 | Electronic circuit driven, inter-active, plural sensory stimuli apparatus and comprehensive method to teach, with no instructor present, beginners as young as two years old to play a piano/keyboard type musical instrument and to read and correctly respond to standard music notation for said instruments Electronic circuit controlled inter-active multi sensory prompting and monitoring musical keyboard instrument for teaching user—as young as two years old—how to play keyboard instrument without instructor assistance. Instrument comprised of black and white keys ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7414186 | System and method of teaching musical notes A system and method of teaching musical notes are adapted to teach identification of music staff notes, the names and sounds of notes, as well as piano keys corresponding to notes. An implementation of the method entails displaying a musical keyboard having a plural... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7358432 | Method and apparatus for teaching rhythm An apparatus for teaching rhythm includes a housing having a plurality of tempo indicator lights and a plurality of beat indicator lights corresponding to the tempo indicator lights, such that the beat indicator lights can be selectively illuminated to indicate a de... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7220907 | Data recording and retrieval, sheet music, music keyboard tablature and method of teaching music The present invention comprises a method of instructing a performer on the hand manipulations to make to play a piece of music. The invention includes a representation. The representation includes at least one time line which represents the elapse of time during the... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7202408 | Methods and electronic systems for fingering assignments Embodiments of the disclosure relate to assignment of fingering for performance of a musical piece. In one example, a processor of an electronic system receives a file having data relating to at least one musical piece. The processor parses the file and assigns keys... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7090368 | Key for use in low light conditions A key, which may be used in a user interface, including indicia formed at least in part from UV reactive material. ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6936759 | Teaching method and template to make a guide to teach piano A plastic template is disclosed with elongated slots and circular holes in it. The template can be put on a piece of paper and by running pencil through the various slots, all of the scales, chords, and intervals can be produced on the paper to form a guide. The gui... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6881887 | Teaching method and guides to teach piano A guide is disclosed with vertical numerically color coded lines on it. The guide can then be moved along the space between the keys and the fallboard of the piano, so that the keys can be played by anyone placing their fingers on the keys indicated by the lines on ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6850225 | Color-coded tactile data-entry devices A data-entry device having manually operable input means arranged in zones for operation by corresponding fingers of a user. The device includes means for color coding such that each zone is assigned a color and successive zones display colors ordered according to t... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6605767 | Music learning system including instrument and method A musical learning system including an instrument and method is disclosed. The instrument is comprised of a rectangularly shaped box designed for convenient handling by an operator in a manner analogous to other musical instruments such as a piano, a guit... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6566593 | Musical keyboard with a sequenced markings A musical keyboard has keys arranged and marked for generating tones of a twelve-tone scale. A first register of keys generates first sets of six tones being whole tones apart in the twelve-tone scale. A second register of keys generates second sets of si... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6486387 | Fingering information analyzer, electronic musical instrument including fingering information analysis and method therefore In a fingering information analyzer, tone pitch information indicative of each tone pitch of a series of musical notes supplied from a flexible disc or a performance information memory is analyzed to produce fingering information indicative of a performan... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6388182 | Method and apparatus for teaching music A music teaching method utilizes a musical notation sheet to depict a song and a keyboard for playing the song. The notation sheet has a staff having a single line with numbers printed above and below the line. The numbers correspond to both the fingers o... | 05/14/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6337434 | Music teaching instrument A music teaching instrument adapted to teach a player the notes of a musical scale so that the notes will be remembered. The instrument includes a sound system having a memory in which is stored audible tones of the musical scale, and means to reproduce a... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6284961 | System for associating musical notation with keys on a musical instrument A system for associating musical notation with keys on a musical instrument includes musical notations marked on a surface. The musical notations comprise a plurality of musical notes, with each of the musical notes having a color. The color of each of th... | 09/04/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6111179 | Electronic musical instrument having guitar-like chord selection and keyboard note selection A musical instrument, comprising a neck and a body. A chord selector is present on the neck, and a note selector is present on the body. The chord selector comprises a plurality of locations, each having a tonic and a quality. The note selector is a touch... | 08/29/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5783764 | Pianopics display and associated musical notation A musical keyboard instruction device composed of a pianopics display device and its associated keyboard musical notation, which convey readily the information needed to play the piano and any like keyboard instrument. It does so by using a partial keyboa... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5496179 | System for teaching music reading Musical notes in the form of representations of objects or creatures familiar to young children and which connote the name of a tone and are depicted on the musical staff and on instrumentalities which generate the tone.... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5425297 | Electronic musical instrument with direct translation between symbols, fingers and sensor areas A new electronic musical instrument and an associated notational method are disclosed. The new musical instrument is played using the right hand for depression of keys, as in conventional instruments, and also by applying finger pressure onto special sens... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5107743 | Piano teaching device and method A piano teaching aid having a panel designed to fit over the keys of an existing keyboard so that lights mounted on the panel having more than one color or shape may be located directly above the piano keys to be played. The lights have more than one colo... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5105709 | Electronic keyboard musical instrument having user selectable division points An electronic keyboard musical instrument has a division point setting switch for setting division point on a keyboard. In the case that the division point setting switch is actuated when all keys are in an off-state or not operated, a division point is s... | 04/21/1992 |
| 4750399 | Electronic musical instrument A key signature actuator for musical keyboard eases playing from music written with a difficult key signature by automatically actuating the sharps or flats in the key signature. Musical notes are associated with keyboard landmarks positioned along the ke... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4322997 | Keyboard This specification discloses an improved keyboard for musical instruments in which selected keys (1,3) have indicia (2,4) applied to their exposed surfaces, said indicia (2,4) being formed from ink which is sensitive to ultra-violet radiation, and a low p... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4254686 | Octave subdivided diatonic scale organizer The invention is in the field of musical learning and playing devices, and particularly relates to keyboard instruments. A plurality of cards are provided each of which defines a forward pocket and each of which spans an octave on the keyboard. These card... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4056999 | Piano teaching aid A sequence of first, second and third overlay segments that are initially lightly adhered to the white keys of a replica of a piano keyboard defined on a backing strip. The first, second and third overlay segments are subsequently removed from the backing... | 11/08/1977 |
| 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 |
| 3958487 | Teaching device for musical instruments A teaching device for use with a musical keyboard or equivalent, such as a piano, organ or multistringed instrument; the device including a compact housing for containing control means, and indicating means including light emitting elements for positionin... | 05/25/1976 |
