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A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7253349 | Engineers piano with bisymmetrical manuals and accompanying musical notation system A 2 manual musical keyboard with the pitch progression on one of the manuals reversed. The keys on these manuals are segregated into 2 groups of 2 different heights in the same way as a standard musical keyboard. The key configurations on these manuals have 12 semi-... | 08/07/2007 |
| 6051771 | Apparatus and method for generating arpeggio notes based on a plurality of arpeggio patterns and modified arpeggio patterns An arpeggio notes generating apparatus includes a ROM which stores data defining a plurality of arpeggio patterns and a plurality of groove patterns. An arpeggio pattern is composed of a succession of chord constituent notes to be generated at respectivel... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5973254 | Automatic performance device and method achieving improved output form of automatically-performed note data An automatic performance, such as an automatic arpeggio performance or a short-phrase sequence performance, is executed on the the basis of manual performance note data corresponding to key depression on a keyboard, and automatic performance note data are... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5898120 | Auto-play apparatus for arpeggio tones An auto-play apparatus has a ROM which pre-stores arpeggio pattern data including a sequence pattern, a trigger pattern, and a gater pattern, and a tone signal generation circuit for generating tones on the basis of these arpeggio pattern data. The appara... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5726374 | Keyboard electronic musical instrument with guitar emulation function A polyphonic electronic musical instrument is provided wherein a keyboard is used to trigger arpeggiated chords which emulate a strumming guitar sound. Select keys are provided for selecting which notes are included in chords to be strummed. At least one ... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5003860 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus An automatic accompaniment apparatus plays, in real-time, an accompanimental line that is subordinated to a melodic line and formed by a succession of harmonic and nonharmonic tones. The apparatus comprises a key determining unit which determines a key in... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4356751 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument comprises a musical tone production circuit responsive to a depressed key among a plurality of keys, and a control circuit for controlling tone production manner which includes a plurality of manually operated members moun... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4307644 | Automatic performance device An electronic musical instrument is of a type in which chord constituent tones are automatically produced at timings determined by the rhythm to be played and according to random selection of notes. A rhythm pattern pulse generator generates a rhythm patt... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4271741 | Accompaniment system for electronic musical instrument An accompaniment system for an electronic musical instrument is selectively actuatable for producing accompaniment effects such as arpeggio in accordance with selectable notes or chords and with selectable rhythm patterns. The electronic musical instrumen... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4220067 | Automatic musical performance instrument An automatic musical performance instrument which has a counter for counting a high-speed clock from a high-speed clock generator, a depressed key switch detector for generating a scanning pulse in synchronism with the high-speed clock to detect a depress... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4206676 | Electronic musical instrument with sequencer for automatic arpeggio performance An electronic musical instrument is provided with a keyboard circuit, a voltage-controlled tone signal generating circuit arrangement and a sequencer for sequentially coupling memorized pitch voltage signals to the voltage-controlled tone signal generatin... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4192212 | Electronic musical instrument with automatic performance device A keyboard electronic musical instrument comprises a note information processing device capable of processing note information required for automatic arpeggio and automatic bass performances. This note information processing device includes a generation c... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4182212 | Method of and apparatus for automatically playing arpeggio in electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument including key switches which are connected in a matrix of twelve note lines times six octave lines. The note lines are scanned cyclically at a high speed and the octave lines are detected one by one cyclically to determine... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4179970 | Automatic arpeggio for multiplexed keyboard The present invention is an arpeggio system for use in a musical instrument having a multiplexed keyboard, wherein operated playing keys are represented by cyclic pulses in corresponding time slots in a serial time division multiplex data format, connecte... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4149441 | Electrical musical instrument A manually played electrical musical instrument of the electronic type in which simultaneously with selection and playing of a melody tone (note) a predetermined pattern of harmonies are also selected in such manner that at least five of the harmonies sel... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4137809 | Arpeggio system for electronic organs An arpeggiator for an electronic organ, comprising a source of ramp voltage having selectively a slowly ascending and a slowly descending section or only a slowly ascending section followed by a rapid reset, an accordion-like voltage divider for said ramp... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4054078 | Automatic arpeggio electronic musical instrument An automatic arpeggio musical instrument includes a pulse generator having a plurality of keys for generating periodic pulses by depression of one of the keys, each of the keys generating a voltage, a timing pulse generator connected to the pulse generato... | 10/18/1977 |
| 3991646 | Arpeggio circuit for an electronic musical instrument An arpeggio circuit for an electronic keyboard instrument has means for generating a desired sweep voltage which is continuously varied, a voltage control type oscillator connected to the generator for generating a sweep frequency which is varying in prop... | 11/16/1976 |
