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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6150600 | Inductive location sensor system and electronic percussion system A system and a method for sensing the location of a remote object relative to a base object involve integrating inductive loop antennas with variable loop density into the base object and utilizing the antennas to transmit energy to and receive energy fro... | 11/21/2000 |
| 4628786 | Velocity responsive musical instrument keyboard A keyboard system in a keyboard controlled musical instrument includes a pair of spaced apart electrode members and a pickup movable in the space intermediate the electrode members. Respective voltages are impressed on the electrodes to establish an elect... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4628785 | Method and apparatus for calibrating a keyboard A calibration system for the keyboard of an electronic musical instrument. Compression of the key causes an output signal to be generated which varies in accordance with the amount of key depression. When the key is depressed to a nominally fully depresse... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4558623 | Velocity and aftertouch sensitive keyboard A keyboard system for an electronic musical instrument of the keyboard type, such as an electronic organ, synthesizer or electronic piano. The keyboard is responsive to the velocity with which the key is depressed and controls the tone generation circuitr... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4503745 | Musical instrument A new, performer played, real time, multitonal, multimbral musical instrument consists of speed and force sensitive keys in which time domain multiplexing is used to find and associate one and only one tone generator, not otherwise busy, with any key that... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4299153 | Touch responsive envelope control for electronic musical instrument A touch responsive tonal envelope waveshape control system is provided for an electronic musical instrument which includes cooperating tone generating and keying circuits which are responsive to actuation of a key for initiating the generation and keying ... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4213367 | Monophonic touch sensitive keyboard A keyboard for a monophonic musical instrument has a plurality of touch sensitive keys which function as variable capacitors, the capacitance depending on the force applied to the keys. The variable capacitance is detected and used to produce a variable c... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4170916 | Touch operated capacitive switch for electronic musical instruments A touch operated capacitive switch for altering electrical signals controlling the mode of operation of an electronic musical instrument. The switch comprises a thin laminate having a non-conducting lamina sandwiched between a conducting touch electrode a... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4160400 | Touch responsive keying unit for electronic musical instruments A touch responsive unit for a keyboard electronic musical instrument. A high frequency signal source is connected to one plate of a normally open circuited variable capacitor. The other plate of the variable capacitor being mechanically connected to a for... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4027569 | Keyboard for an electronic musical instrument employing variable capacitors A keyboard of an electronic musical instrument incorporates a plurality of variable capacitors, one for each key, with one conductor of each capacitor being connected for movement with an individual key of the keyboard toward and away from the other condu... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3943812 | Touch responsive sensor in electronic keyboard musical instrument A touch responsive sensor for an electronic keyboard musical instrument of a variable capacitor type, which comprises a pair of electrodes spaced apart from each other, and an intermediate electrode interposed between the pair of electrodes and separated ... | 03/16/1976 |
