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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7692090 | Electronic musical performance instrument with greater and deeper creative flexibility An electronic musical performance instrument that provides a user with a wide array of creative choices of operating systems, sound synthesis applications, user interfaces (including those emulating the interface of a conventional musical instrument and electronic c... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7671268 | Internally mounted self-contained amplifier and speaker system for acoustic guitar An apparatus for the amplification and projection of the sound of a musical instrument, such as an acoustic guitar, adapted to mount within the guitar itself. The apparatus may mount within the sound hole of the guitar, with an outward facing speaker within the soun... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7408108 | Multiple-paramenter instrument keyboard combining key-surface touch and key-displacement sensor arrays An invention extending functionality and applications of traditional music keyboards. Individual musical keyboard keys may have individual key displacement sensors measuring key travel. Individual keys may further include surface sensors measuring two additional par... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7396987 | Portable keyboard musical instrument A versatile portable keyboard musical instrument has a number of separable portions including a first keyboard portion detachable from a second supporting base portion for use alone, or the second supporting base portion may be removed from a support stand and the f... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7361826 | Portable electronic musical keyboard instrument A portable electronic musical device has a keyboard disposed in a housing connected to a strap and a support plate connected thereto for suspension of housing by strap on shoulders of a person while housing is simultaneously supported on waist of person to allow per... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361828 | Automatic player musical instrument, automatic player incorporated therein and method used therein An automatic player piano is fabricated on the basis of an acoustic piano, and an automatic player is expected to give rise to key motion for reenacting performance with solenoid-operated key actuators; since the hammers of acoustic piano are different in mass, the ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7348477 | Electronic keyboard musical instrument Casing of an electronic keyboard musical instrument includes two discrete parts: a main casing section; and a rear casing section. The main casing section includes a bottom plate having a keyboard section placed thereon, a keyslip portion extending upward from the b... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345235 | Keyboard musical instrument having keys equipped with balancers biting into keys and method for securing balancers to keys Keys of an acoustic piano require balancers for cancellation of a part of self weight of the action units/hammers; however, the balancers are liable to be dropped off due to the aged deterioration of the wooden bars; in order to keep the balancers stable in the keys... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7304233 | Apparatus and method for installing unit on a stringed musical instrument An apparatus for mounting a control unit on a stringed musical instrument. The apparatus is designed such that the control unit can be easily mounted on and removed from the stringed musical instrument. The apparatus provides more stable and more firm mounting of th... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7268289 | Musical instrument performing artistic visual expression and controlling system incorporated therein A set of formation data codes, which includes action event codes and duration codes, is loaded in an automatic player piano, and a controller interprets the action event codes for driving the solenoid-operated key actuators; since the solenoid-operated key actuators... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7247783 | Cooperative musical instrument A series of musical vehicles form a cooperative musical instrument. Each musical vehicle may be outfitted with a musical tone generator and horn, or loud speaker that plays a particular note on a music scale. Each musical vehicle may have multiple horns or speakers ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7202409 | Musical instrument automatically performing music passage through hybrid feedback control loop containing plural sorts of sensors An automatic player piano includes keys driven for the angular motion through a hybrid feedback control loop; a controller, a key position sensor, a plunger velocity sensor and a solenoid-operated key actuator form parts of the hybrid feedback control loop for each ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7002070 | Electronic piano An electronic piano is provided in which activation of a keyboard (7) and foot pedals (8) causes sound to be generated and output via a pair of conventional cone loudspeakers (210–212) each comprising a tweeter (214), a woofer (216 | 02/21/2006 |
| 6867359 | Musical instrument capable of changing style of performance through idle keys, method employed therein and computer program for the method A silent piano is available for a performance through electronic tones, and a player can give a timbre different from that of an acoustic piano to the electronic tones; when the player specifies a timbre of another acoustic musical instrument having a compass narrow... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6703552 | Continuous music keyboard An apparatus and method for continuous keyboard system. The Continuous Music Keyboard resembles a traditional keyboard in that it is approximately the same size and is played with ten fingers. It also resembles a fretless string instrument in that it has ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6437230 | Effector apparatus in electronic musical instrument The present invention permits the parameters of at least one of the frequency characteristic adjusting circuit and the effect circuit in its DSP to be modified for providing the line-out jacks with an optimum music signal when its speaker (SP) switch is t... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6392136 | Musical tone generation structure of electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument such as an electronic piano has a musical tone generation structure that closely simulates and reproduces musical tones with nuances of musical expressions with fidelity to acoustic musical instruments such as acoustic pia... | 05/21/2002 |
| 5977466 | Keyboard musical instrument equipped with small simple economical key touch generator An electronic keyboard musical instrument includes a plurality of keys turnable between a rest position and an end position, an electronic sound generating system responsive to the motion of the key so as to generate an electronic sound and a key touch ge... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5952593 | Removable frets for fretted stringed musical instruments A fretted stringed musical instrument is provided with channels which can removably accommodate frets. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the channels are provided at locations where it is sometimes, but not always, desirable to have a fret. The ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5922983 | Keyboard musical instrument having key touch controller An electronic keyboard musical instrument stores first key touch data codes representative of a first reaction component and grouped into first data groups by a key velocity, second key touch data codes representative of a second reaction component and gr... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5661253 | Control apparatus and electronic musical instrument using the same A control apparatus comprises a rod-like member having a gripping portion at its distal end, a support member for supporting the rod-like member, the gripping portion being movable along an axial direction of the rod-like member, and moving amount detecto... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5589654 | Electronic dance floor system An electronic dance floor system (10) that consists of a dance floor (12) having at least two dancing sections (14) with each section further having at least four composite pad assemblies (16). Each of the assemblies (16) is connected through a musical in... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5569871 | Musical tone generating apparatus employing microresonator array A musical tone generating apparatus employs an array of microresonant structures to generate the harmonic component signals of a musical tone to be generated. The microresonant structures produce high frequency signals which are down converted to audio fr... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5506371 | Simulative audio remixing home unit The present invention pertains to audio equipment simulative of musical instruments. The invention allows a user to simulate the playing of music reproduced from an external audio source. The present invention allows a user to quickly modify the amplifica... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5349129 | Electronic sound generating toy The electronic device uses domino-shaped sound elements in combination with a support track to generate audible sounds or musical notes. The sound elements are placed in indentations on a support track in a selected sequence corresponding to the sequence ... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5248846 | Musical instrument incorporating a Helmholtz resonator Keyboard instruments incorporating sound systems for generating musical tones are disclosed. In a first keyboard instrument, speakers are mounted near a keyboard, and are arranged upright to be directed to the keyboard on the front side, thereby allowing ... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5196640 | Control mechanism for electronic musical instrument A musical tone control mechanism for an electronic musical instrument in which a musical tone adjustment rotary body having a rotating shaft extending along the longitudinal direction of a keyboard is provided, the rotary body is divided into a plurality ... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5194685 | Keyboard musical instrument hammer movement detection apparatus A hammer movement detection device for detecting the movement of a hammer which strikes strings provided for each key of a keyboard musical instrument. The hammer movement detection device radiates light onto a hammer shank which moves with the hammer and... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5166466 | Musical tone control information input manipulator for electronic musical instrument A musical tone control information input manipulator comprises a manipulator body, a slide manipulator, and a pressure sensor. One end of the manipulator body is supported so as to be pivotally turnable and the other end thereof is supported by an elastic... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5125313 | Musical tone control apparatus The musical tone control apparatus detects a movement of a player, such as a holding, touching, beating, depressing, pulling, lifting up or down movement. Then, the musical tone control apparatus generates musical tone control data based on a detecting re... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5099742 | Electronic musical instrument having string bending effect Apparatus for altering the output of an electronic string musical instrum responsive to bending of the string comprises a compressible electrically conductive member which has an electrical resistance which varies with the degree of compression applied a... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5086686 | Keyboard instrument Keyboard instruments incorporating sound systems for generating musical tones are disclosed. In a first keyboard instrument, speakers are mounted near a keyboard, and are arranged upright to be directed to the keyboard on the front side, thereby allowing ... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5031500 | Keyboard instrument Keyboard instruments incorporating sound systems for generating musical tones are disclosed. In a first keyboard instrument, speakers are mounted near a keyboard, and are arranged upright to be directed to the keyboard on the front side, thereby allowing ... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5025703 | Electronic stringed instrument An electronic stringed instrument employs a plurality of sensors or monitors for instrument performance. Preferred sensors or monitors include a detector for detecting that a string of the instrument is vibrated, an apparatus for evaluating a string-vibra... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5014587 | Electronic piano tone circuit Apparatus for generating an enveloped tone signal includes a digital portion for generating an alternating logical wave form at the desired frequency, and a start pulse for initiating the tone; and an analog portion responsive to the alternating logical w... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4966053 | Music synthesizer with multiple movable bars A variable control device accessory for a music synthesizer having a horizontally disposed keyboard. The device is positioned in front of the keyboard. It has a plurality of movable bars, at least of one of which is capable of being pivotally and slidably... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4951546 | Electronic stringed musical instrument For elimination of an error made in a sound production, an electronic fretted and stringed musical instrument operates in a parameter adjusting mode of operation prior to a playing mode of operation, and the fret positions are adjusted for actual fret mem... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4932304 | Control device for the manual playing of electronic musical instruments A manually played control device mounted on the playing board of an electronic keyboard instrument, to be played by one hand of a player while the other hand plays the main keys. The main keys produce usual control signals whereas the control device produ... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4635518 | Segmented fret electronic musical instrument An electronic stringed musical instrument having an electrically insulating fingerboard is disclosed. The fingerboard is provided with a number of segmented frets attached across its upper surface at desired points along its length. Each of the frets incl... | 01/13/1987 |
