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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8093482 | Detection and processing of signals in stringed instruments An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method and system for electronic sensing of string instrument input. The method includes receiving a first signal from a peak detection circuit. The peak detection circuit is operable to sense string activation... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7732696 | Instantly playable stringed instrument and method of use thereof An instantly playable stringed instrument having a body, neck and fret spaces is provided. The instrument includes a plurality of strings. The strings are tuned such that in combination the sound they produce is an open E minor chord. The instantly playable stringed... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7714220 | Method and apparatus for self-instruction A method for self-instruction of a user's hands on an object such as a musical instrument or sports equipment. The method includes accessing finger placement data corresponding to a sequence of predetermined finger placements on a plurality of objects. A position fo... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7692086 | Method and apparatus for image interpretation into sound A method for interpreting an image into sound is provided and includes scanning an image to provide a plurality of scanned elements which are assigned a value and an associated sound element. The sound elements are arranged to produce a sound track for the scanned i... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7525034 | Method and apparatus for image interpretation into sound A method for interpreting an image into sound is provided and includes scanning an image to provide a plurality of scanned elements which are assigned a value and an associated sound element. The sound elements are arranged to produce a sound track for the scanned i... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7482525 | Music notation This invention relates to a method and apparatus for notating music for a stringed instrument. A weighted tablature includes a staff having multiple horizontal lines. Each line represents a string of a musical instrument and at least some of the lines are of varying... | 01/27/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7408105 | Instrument training device for stringed instruments An instrument training device for use with a stringed instrument includes a plurality of training members. Each training member is constructed of a flexible material and includes opposed ends. Each end includes complementary fastening material such as hook and loop ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7381884 | Sound generating hand wear A glove includes a body that is positional about a user's hand. Speakers are embedded within the body and are coupled to the amp. Mechanisms are included for sensing external forces on each finger and for generating control signals when the external forces are detec... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7365263 | Intonation training device An intonation training device for training musicians in just intonation. As disclosed, the device is a pocket-sized portable device with an audio output and a user interface which includes an LCD display and a device such as a push button for selecting an item from ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7345236 | Method of automated musical instrument finger finding An automated computing system and method for determining fingering of musical instruments from digitized scored music or tablature. The computerized automated finger finder system and method analyzes a musical composition and determines hand and/or fingering positio... | 03/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7314991 | Method of conveying musical information A method of conveying musical information is described. The method includes the steps of assigning sequential alphabetic and numeric designations as a system of reference to the physical location of individual piano keys on a piano keyboard, the physical location co... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7304224 | Exercise and training device for acoustic guitar players A practice and exercise device for acoustic guitar players. The device includes a housing, a plurality of strings, and a circuit to generate a sound having a tone, wherein the tone is selected from the group consisting of A, D, and E tones. The circuit is housed in ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7196260 | Entry of musical data in a mobile communication device Within a mobile communication device (100), a method (300) of specifying two or more musical notes for substantially concurrent playback can include receiving (302) an input specifying a root note (FIG. 2 ) indicating a position on a neck... | 03/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7094964 | Music performance data processing method and apparatus adapted to control a display Performance data processing apparatus includes a memory for storing settings input by a user and a processor for performing various control in accordance with the settings stored in the memory. Performance data are displayed in one or more display forms desired by t... | 08/22/2006 |
| 6995310 | Method and apparatus for sensing and displaying tablature associated with a stringed musical instrument A system and method of enhancing guitar instruction based on Tablature Plus encoding of playing techniques within a MIDI file or other data structure, that may be rendered on an associated player application that provides multimedia output of the piece being played ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6987220 | Graphic color music notation for students A method of music notation with 7 spaces for the notes of the C major scale, with the remaining notes of the 12 tone scale overlapping these spaces. 5 staff lines per octave can be used to show the position of the accidental notes. Distinct colors are assigned to th... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6977334 | Method of writing keyboard music A unique method of writing keyboard music without the use of traditional lines and staff notation is provided. The method is primarily designed to represent elementary R & B, Jazz and Gospel keyboard music, but is not limited to such. The invention consists o... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6933430 | Guitar pick holder made of a flexible magnetic body In one illustrative example, a guitar pick holder is made of a thin, flat, and visually appealing flexible magnet which adheres to a front outside surface of a guitar. A guitar pick which is used with the holder is made of a synthetic material but also includes a ma... | 08/23/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6881883 | Relative chord keyboard instructional method A relative chord method for playing a series of chords on a music keyboard by prescribed finger transitions from one chord to the next dependent upon the musical interval between the chords. ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6660921 | Colorall fingering A method for teaching stringed instrument students how to play sheet music through the use of colored fingering numbers. This method assists the user in knowing which finger to use on which string as they play instrumental music. It also indicates which p... | 12/09/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6555737 | Performance instruction apparatus and method Pictures of a predetermined musical instrument, such as a drum set, and a model player are displayed, so as to visually indicate, in accordance with a progression of performance, which musical instrument should be operated or played and which of body part... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6515211 | Music performance assistance apparatus for indicating how to perform chord and computer program therefor Display device is supplied with basic screen display data for displaying a basic screen including a plurality of chord names to be indicated on the basic screen, and displays the basic screen on the basis of the basic screen display data. For example, the... | 02/04/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6486388 | Apparatus and method for creating fingering guidance in playing musical instrument from performance data Performance data for a musical instrument having note designating keys are provided representing a sequence of notes which constitute a length of musical performance. The performance data are analyzed, and based on the analyzed performance data, fingering... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6483018 | Method and apparatus for teaching playing of stringed instrument A chromatic fingerboard map is provided for teaching the playing of an unfretted stringed instrument such as a cello, violin, viola or bass, having strings extending from a nut at the top to a bridge at the bottom. The map contains a graphic representatio... | 11/19/2002 |
| 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 |
