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6323408 Music creation  
Templates are used in methods of improving the perceived intonation of musical notes by modifying each note to provide certain frequencies between adjacent pairs of notes. The template...
6194646 Musical keyboards playing new kinds of music  
A new musical keyboard and musical scale is provided by subdividing each octave into a larger number of parts, or notes. In one case, each octave contains sixteen notes, rather than the...
6121534 Natural-scale tone-generator apparatus for MIDI musical keyboards  
After centuries of compromise and frustration, the unacceptable distortion created by equal-tempered-scale tuning can finally be eliminated and a musical keyboard instrument will be able to produce...
6093879 Bicameral scale musical instruments  
This application relates to various stepped pitch instruments crafted to a novel musical tuning system for the generated frequencies. As such, the tone selection devices are arranged to a distinct...
5841053 Simplified keyboard and electronic musical instrument  
Disclosed is an electronic musical instrument comprised of operators organized in repeating patterns of seven. The operators are electronically interpreted to correspond only to the valid notes of...
5565641 Relativistic electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument preferably contains a microprocessor-based MIDI controller which receives signals from a standard IBM-compatible computer keyboard as input and processes the...
5516981 Musical instrument tuned in nineteen note temperament scale  
A musical instrument produces nineteen tones in each octave, and the nineteen tones have respective fundamental frequencies regulated to a geometrical series of 19 √2 so as to be highly...
5502274 Electronic musical instrument for playing along with prerecorded music and method of operation  
An electronic musical instrument includes manual input devices such as keys, a memory device or devices such as CDs which contain a prerecorded musical signal, prerecorded translation tables, and a...
5430913 Keyboard instrument for the natural tone system  
A keyboard instrument for the natural tone system with at least one keyboard whose keys are assigned to the overtones in a predetermined sequence. According to the invention, the keyboard is...
5412153 Electronic musical instrument having independent pitch control for each key  
Disclosed is a tone generating apparatus which is provided with a timbre select switch to specify a timbre and a scan circuit for generating key codes corresponding to keys. Pitch control values...
5306865 Electronic keyboard musical instrument or tone generator employing Modified Eastern Music Tru-Scale Octave Transformation to avoid overtone collisions  
An electronic musical instrument for reproducing chords or pure tones in a fixed interval scale, called Modified Eastern Music Tru-Scale Octave Transformation by the inventors, without overtone...
5129303 Musical equipment enabling a fixed selection of digitals to sound different musical scales  
Musical equipment enables the row of front digitals of a musical keyboard to sound either the diatonic scale or a six-tone musical scale. Thus music written by different methods of notation can be...
5117727 Tone pitch changing device for selecting and storing groups of pitches based on their temperament  
A tone pitch changing device comprising an operation content memory for storing the contents of an operation required for generating a sound having a pitch which belongs to one of a group of...
4972752 Microtonal key module and system  
A microtonal key module includes a central key and a number of surrounding keys clustered about the central key. The central key and the surrounding keys establish among each other a progression of...
4947724 Electric music instrument with the capability of memorizing and producing different musical scales  
An electronic musical instrument with plural pitch data generating functions includes a keyboard, a plurality of tone generating units, a pitch designating unit, a plural pitch data generating...
4658695 Multi-decked keyboard for musical instruments  
A multi-decked keyboard for musical instruments has three decks arranged for ease of playing with each hand. The primary deck is substantially a normal piano-like keyboard; the second deck is also...
4628792 Modified musical instrument keyboard  
A keyboard for a musical instrument includes at least one series of keys wherein seven keys in the series and five keys correspond to the typical piano or synthesizer white and black keys,...
4498363 Just intonation electronic keyboard instrument  
A just intonation electronic keyboard instrument comprises a plurality of tonality selection switches for selecting each key from among twenty-four just intonation keys, a control circuit for...
4480519 Musical instrument with improved keyboard  
An improved keyboard for a musical instrument includes a plurality of keys arranged in a side-by-side order, all lying in a common plane. Different embodiments of the invention have a varying...
4031800 Keyboard for a musical instrument  
Geometrically, my keyboard is characterized by a two-dimensional pattern of at least six horizontal and at least six vertical rows of keys. The center-to-center spacing between adjacent keys, both...
3973460 Keyboard type musical instrument  
The instrument is designed to play a six tone scale on its lower digitals, which leads naturally to a simple and easily learned system of music notation. In the preferred embodiment, the six tone...
3915050 Keyboard instrument  
A keyboard instrument in which independent front and rear keyboards are provided close enough together to be played simultaneously with one hand, one of the keyboards being capable of playing...
3865004 KEYBOARD TYPE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT  
The musical instrument has a keyboard with six lower digitals per octave span; there being not more than one upper digital between each pair of adjacent lower digitals. The lower digitals of the...
3845685 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS  
The musical instrument has a keyboard with five lower digitals and not more than five upper digitals per octave span; there being not more than one upper digital between each pair of adjacent lower...
3229560 Keyboard musical instrument  
3200689 Keyboard  
3012460 Musical instrument  
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