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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8049095 | Transducer saddle for stringed instrument A saddle for a multi-stringed instrument couples to transducer elements, vibrations from plucked musical instruments strings. The saddle includes a top saddle portion, and a body portion beneath the top saddle portion having a plurality of integral cavities, each in... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8008570 | Display assembly and display device having the same In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a display assembly received in a cover by the front mounting method, a combining recess is formed on a corner formed at which a side part and an upper portion of a supporting part meet together, a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7982125 | Transducer and stringed musical instrument including the same A transducer includes a piezoelectric element attached to a stringed musical instrument with an adhesive layer, and at least one intermediate layer provided in a thickness-wise middle portion of the adhesive layer and made of a material different from a material of ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7804018 | Electric stringed musical instrument and pickup unit incorporated therein for converting vibrations to signal An electric cello is equipped with a pickup unit under a bridge, and strings are stretched to press the bridge; the pickup unit has a bridge tray where the bridge stands and a piezoelectric transducer provided beneath the bridge tray, and the bridge tray is bolted a... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7534954 | Electric harp An electrified musical instrument having a pickup wire (30), multiple strings (6), and a frame, typically comprising a head (2), diagonal arm (24), front column (16), and rear column (18), arranged in such a way as to provid... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534955 | Device and method for adjusting the tension of a string of a stringed instrument The present invention describes a simple and effective method and a device for adjusting the tension of the string of a string instrument in which a holding section that is displaceable in or on the mounting block in relation to the latter and on which the first end... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7446255 | Method of processing sounds from stringed instrument and pickup device for the same It is an object of the present invention to provide a pickup device for a stringed instrument which can take a piezoelectric signal for a tone of an acoustic stringed instrument. A stringed instrument is composed of a stringed instrument main body and a sensor mecha... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7394015 | Pickup device for plucked string instrument and plucked string instrument A pickup device (11) sandwiched between strings (3) and a top (4) of a body in a plucked string instrument comprises: a saddle (16) transmitting vibrations of the strings (3) to the body; and a bridge (25) fixedly attached o... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7368654 | Anti-resonant transducer The present invention is an device and method for providing an improved transducer for musical instruments. It an object of the present invention to provide a transducer which, because of its design, can be placed on or within a musical instrument quickly and... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368646 | Stringed musical instrument A stringed musical instrument includes a string which, when vibrated, produces sound. Both ends of the vibrating portion of the string touch glass. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7358428 | Dual saddle bridge A stringed musical instrument has a body coupled to a single neck, multiple registers of strings, and a bridge that provides for at least one of acoustic and electronic separation of the multiple registers. The strings are preferrably arranged in paired courses, eac... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7339106 | Electric stringed musical instrument equipped with single vibration sensor provided inside of body An electric contrabass has a bridge structure on a body in which an inner space is defined, and the body is further formed with a slit under the bridge structure so that the lid of the body vibrates like a cantilever; a vibration sensor is provided inside the body, ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7332669 | Acoustic piano with MIDI sensor and selective muting of groups of keys A high technology acoustic piano includes a piano body. A musical keyboard is mounted on the piano body. Keys are connected to the action for operating the hammers to strike strings. Strings adjacent to the hammers are arranged in different groups according to frequ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7323632 | Percussion transducer A ring-shaped percussion transducer for converting a striking impact into a representative electrical pulse triggering signal is suitable for mounting on the center axis of a percussion instrument. In a preferred embodiment, the transducer is formed of a piezo elect... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319188 | Stringed instrument electronic pickup A piezo-electric sound pickup device for a stringed instrument having a wood or other shapeable material for a casing that is slightly larger than the standard gap between the wing and leg of the instrument bridge. The sound pickup device can be sanded to the proper... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7285713 | Stringed musical instrument equipped with sensors sensitive to vibration components and bridge with built-in sensors An electric acoustic stringed musical instrument is a combination between an acoustic stringed musical instrument and an electric system; while a player is bowing on the strings, the strings not only laterally vibrate but also are repeatedly elongated and shrunk so ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285714 | Pickup for digital guitar A reluctance pickup for a guitar including a pair of magnetic pole pieces disposed within wire coils. The coils are oppositely wound and wired in series. Each pole piece has an elongated magnetic pole end extending above its respective coil. The pole pieces are disp... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7271332 | Amplification of acoustic guitars A device for mixing the outputs of two sensors. The device includes a first input for receiving a signal from at least one first sensor, a second input for receiving a signal from at least one second sensor, a low pass filter for passing signal components of the fir... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268291 | Stringed instrument A string instrument, such as a guitar, includes a sound box with saddle, a neck with tuning pegs and strings extended under tension between the saddle and the tuning pegs, providing a bridge of least two legs under which there are at least two separate piezoelectric... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7247789 | Soundhole accessible musical instrument control platform A soundhole accessible musical instrument control platform mounted inside the body of a musical instrument requires no physical alterations to the instrument, allowing the user convenient and ergonomic access to the control platform through the soundhole while using... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244886 | Invisible electromagnetic pickup for a stringed musical instrument The present invention provides an electromagnetic pickup comprising a bobbin, a single coil wound around the bobbin and at least one pole piece coupled to the bobbin. The pickup is adapted for use with a stringed musical instrument including a body portion, a neck p... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241948 | Stringed musical instrument device A stringed musical instrument device that functions as a peripheral for a computer or computing device, whereby electronic transducers placed inside and/or outside the instrument convert the vibrations of the strings and/or the instrument body from an analog electri... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7235734 | Sensor array for a musical instrument The present invention provides a sensor array for detecting vibrations from a hollow-bodied musical instrument and converting the vibrations into electrical signals for amplification. The sensor array includes a plurality of sensors connected in series including a s... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230174 | Guitar and violin hybrid instrument A guitar and violin hybrid instrument (10) comprising either a solid or hollow body (12). The body (12) has an upper surface (14), a lower surface (16), an upper end (18), a lower end (20), a left half (22), an... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227967 | Piezoelectric transducer adapted to bridge of stringed instrument A piezoelectric transducer, adapted to a bridge of a stringed instrument such as a sound mute guitar, comprises a piezoelectric element roughly having an elongated rectangular shape, a pair of electrodes respectively attached to the upper and lower surfaces of the p... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220912 | Digital guitar system A digital guitar system and method includes a digital guitar and a digital guitar interface device, and a method of converting a conventional guitar into a digital guitar. The guitar is adapted to generate analog audio signals, convert those signals into digital sig... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220913 | Breakout box for digital guitar A guitar interface device for a digital guitar system is adapted to receive digital signals, convert those signals into analog signals, and output the analog signals, so that the digital guitar system may be utilized with conventional analog equipment. The interface... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7190751 | Multi-stage filter circuit and digital signal processing circuit employing the same The present invention provides a filter circuit, related method of operating the filter circuit and a digital signal processing circuit incorporating the same. In one embodiment, the filter circuit includes a conditioning stage, operable at a rate corresponding to a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7166794 | Hexaphonic pickup for digital guitar system A novel multi-signal guitar pickup is provided. The pickup includes a coil assembly for each string that is capable of generating two signals which can be combined together in a predetermined manner to generate an x-plane and a y-plane signal. The pickup is particul... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7157640 | Undersaddle pickup for stringed musical instrument An undersaddle pickup for a musical instrument. The undersaddle pickup is constructed from a layer of sensor material or sensor element coupled at a first surface to an electrode. A second electrode is created by coupling a second surface of the sensor material or s... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151216 | Solid body electric guitar having the capability of producing acoustic guitar sound The invention is an electric guitar. In detail, the guitar includes a solid body and neck portions. A pressure sensor is mounted at the junction of the body and neck, the pressure sensor having the sensor element in direct contact with the guitar. An electric circui... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7145070 | Digital musical instrument system The present invention provides an interactive multimedia apparatus (1, 11, 21) comprising a digital musical instrument (3, 14, 24, 41) and having a plurality of control members (42, 44, 45, 46) including at least one limited state (on/off) contr... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7138577 | Stringed musical instrument equipped with pickup embedded in bridge and bridge used therein An electric acoustic violin is a combination of an acoustic violin and an electric system, and the electric system includes a pickup unit for converting the vibrations of the strings to an electric signal; and a hollow space is formed in the bridge for receiving the... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7132597 | Transducer for converting between mechanical vibration and electrical signal Transducer (100, 200, 300, 500, 600) for converting mechanical vibrations to an electrical signal and/or for converting an electrical signal to mechanical vibration. Damping liquid (122, 222, 522, 622) damps the relative vibration of transducer compone... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7112732 | Electric stringed musical instrument having detachable frame An electric double-bass is broken down into a trunk, a detachable framework assembled with the trunk, coupling units provided between the trunk and the detachable framework, accessory parts, strings stretched over the trunk and an electric sound generating system fo... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7105731 | Low noise vibrating string transducer An apparatus and method for amplifying low amplitude vibrations from stringed instruments, and in particular guitars while reducing Gaussian and 60 Hz hum noise from the signal. In particular, the invention incorporates the use of one or more bipolar magnets in conj... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7084341 | Sound pickup system for acoustic string instruments A sound pickup system for string instruments includes a chinrest and/or tailpiece connected to a first audio interface device—e.g. a piezoelectric transducer-on the instrument's bridge. A second audio interface device—e.g., a microphone-may be attached to and ex... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084641 | Measuring cell and measuring field comprising measuring cells of this type, use of a measuring and use of a measuring field A measuring cell for recording an electrical potential of an analyte situated on the measuring cell. The measuring cell has a sensor, a layer arranged above the sensor and electrically insulating the analyte from the sensor, and an amplifier circuit connected to the... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085391 | Pickup apparatus of piano There is provided a pickup apparatus for reliably and correctly picking up piano sound by rigidly connecting a sound source member such as a sound board of a piano body, with a stationary member such as a cast-iron plate with use of a pickup apparatus body of the in... | 08/01/2006 |
