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6479738 Piano tuner  
A device for tuning a piano that attaches to adjacent strings of the piano and positions magnetic pickups over the strings with the magnetic pickups detecting the vibration of the strings without...
6473723 Mimic high pass filter in a protective relay  
A mimic filter which can be implemented in analog or digital circuitry, and which removes dc offset or other noise from an input signal using a pseudo-differentiation technique. The input signal is...
6465723 Automatic string instrument tuner kit  
A kit for automatically tuning a string musical instrument such as a guitar, violin, cello, viola, etc., includes a controller, a tail piece for attachment to the string musical instrument, a...
6437226 Method and system for automatically tuning a stringed instrument  
The present invention provides a method for automatically tuning a stringed instrument including the steps of inducing a signal on a string under tension to generate a resonance signal having an...
6415584 Tuning means for tuning stringed instruments, a guitar comprising tuning means and a method of tuning stringed instruments  
A tuning means for a stringed instrument having one or more strings comprising detection means to provide a signal in response to vibration of the or each string and actuating means to vary the...
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...
6294719 Musical instrument string winder  
A string winding device for winding and unwinding the string on a peg of a stringed instrument has a generally cylindrical body with a slot extending inward from one end thereof. The slot has a...
6291755 Tuner for stringed musical instruments  
A tuner for stringed musical instruments which have a pickup for converting sound vibrations of the strings to electrical signals and a body being either hollow or solid with a front and back...
6255575 String winding and trimming device  
A device for winding and trimming the strings of a musical instrument is disclosed, the device having an elongated head with an open receptacle on one side and at one end for interengaging the...
6201174 Method and system for improved tablature notation in digital music scores  
A computerized tablature composer automatically updates a tablature notation following edits of a corresponding staff notation. The computerized tablature composer conversely links edits to a...
6166307 Apparatus for automating a stringed instrument  
An automated stringed musical instrument including a device for plucking the strings of the instrument, a device for fretting the strings, and a tension-maintaining linkage for maintaining the...
6130373 Tunable suspension string tree  
A system and method of balancing the torque applied to a stringed instrument's neck and headstock that allows the stringed instrument's neck and headstock to deflect evenly when a tremolo device...
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...
6114618 Method and device for optimizing the position of the strings on stringed and plucked instruments  
A method and device for optimizing the position of the strings on stringed and plucked instruments, especially guitars, and for improving the playability of such instruments. The instruments...
6107556 Apparatus for tuning or installing strings on a musical instrument  
The present invention relates to a hand-held device for tensioning and stabilizing the strings of a stringed musical instrument, such as a guitar, during tuning or installation of the strings. In...
6078001 Machine head for guitars  
A machine head for guitars is disclosed. In the machine head, the tension of a string is adjusted by sequentially rotating a manually operated adjusting knob, a worm engaging with the knob, a worm...
6066790 Multiple frequency display for musical sounds  
This invention is a display system for measuring and displaying, individually or simultaneously, the frequencies contained in a musical sound. A transducer coupled to the sound source produces an...
D421621 Auto-tune system  
5990403 Lyre mounting bracket for a musical instrument tuner  
A lyre mounting bracket (14) is provided for acoustically coupling a musical instrument tuner (12) to a lyre (16) for a musical instrument (10). The tuner (12) includes an electronics section (26)...
5977467 Frequency display for an automatically tuned stringed instrument  
This invention is a display system for an automatically tuned stringed instrument displaying, individually or simultaneously, the frequency of each string of the instrument. The system provides for...
5959229 Strobe tuner for musical instruments with multiple light sources  
A tuning device for a stringed musical instrument consisting of stroboscopic light sources, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), positioned to be seen by a musician in or near normal playing...
5936179 Apparatus including visual display for tuning stringed musical instruments  
Apparatus for tuning a stringed musical instrument includes an electronic tuner circuit and a visual display located in either the pickguard or the pickup mounting ring of the instrument.
5929358 Automatic note switching for digital aural musical instrument tuning  
Methods and apparatus determine tuning frequencies for an instrument, such as a piano, by sounding at least three musical notes of the instrument. The sounded notes are recorded and digitally...
5886270 Electormechanical tuner for stringed instruments  
An automatic tuning system for a stringed instrument is formed by a microprocessor operating hardware connected with one end portion of the several strings. The hardware principally comprises a...
5883323 Sense of touch electronic tuner  
A sense of touch electronic tuning device with background noise suppression and tuning note identification features to verify tuning of acoustic and electrically amplified stringed, reed and wind...
5877443 Strobe tuner  
Single and multiple disc strobe tuners employ microprocessor controlled stepper motors for driving the disc(s) to facilitate the use of customized tuning schemes, such as unequal temperaments and...
5859378 Musical instrument self-tuning system with capo mode  
The invention is a control system for automatically tuning a stringed musical instrument with a capo installed, using an original calibration function or closed-loop tuning system for the...
5854437 Apparatus for tuning electric stringed musical instruments  
Tuner apparatus for tuning an electric stringed musical instrument includes a pickup in a pickup cavity formed in the instrument. A pickup ring extends around the pickup and includes a pickup ring...
D402684 Musical instrument tuner  
5847302 Tone information processing device for an electronic musical instrument for generating sounds  
An electronic musical instrument comprises a tone generator for generating a plurality of different digital waveform signals corresponding to different timbres, and a device for setting a plurality...
5824929 Musical instrument self-tuning system with calibration library  
This invention provides a control system for automatically tuning a stringed musical instrument, utilizing a library of calibration functions to tune the instrument in a plurality of operating...
5817963 Vocal note indicator device  
The invention is directed to a vocal note indicating device for indicating the note of a vocal pitch signal. The device includes an amplifying means for amplifying an inputted vocal pitch signal...
5814748 Pitch raise tuning for digital aural musical instrument tuning  
Methods and apparatus determine tuning frequencies for an instrument, such as a piano, by sounding at least three musical notes of the instrument. The sounded notes are recorded and digitally...
5780759 Method for pitch recognition, in particular for musical instruments which are excited by plucking or striking  
A method is specified for pitch recognition, in particular for musical instruments which are excited by plucking or striking, in the case of which method the interval between zero crossings of a...
5777248 Tuning indicator for musical instruments  
A musical instrument tuning aid. The display provides the user tuning information in a rapidly interpreted form. The input note, or tuning device setting, is displayed in a clock face format. A...
5773737 Visual display for digital aural musical instrument tuning  
Methods and apparatus determine tuning frequencies for an instrument, such as a piano, by sounding at least three musical notes of the instrument. The sounded notes are recorded and digitally...
5770810 Drum tuning method and apparatus  
The method of enabling optimum tuning of a drum having a shell, a head and adjustable tuning members, that includes suspending the drum shell to vibrate when struck; striking the suspended shell to...
5767429 Automatic string instrument tuner  
A tuning system is described for automatically tuning a musical instrument having adjustment means for changing the frequency of a musical tone produced by a musical string of the musical...
5760321 Power-actuated guitar string tuning device  
An automatic guitar string tuning device includes a foot-operated switch for controlling an electrical solenoid which rotates a cam shaft mounted upon a guitar or other stringed instrument. The...
5756913 Automatic piano tuner  
A piano tuning system having an electronic control circuit which receives sound through a microphone for a piano key. Based upon a comparison of this sound with stored piano fundamental...
5736661 System and method for tuning an instrument to a meantone temperament  
The meantone temperer external device is used in conjunction with a keyboard or other musical instrument. The meantone temperer is used to temper the connected musical instrument to any desired...
5728959 Guitar tuner holder  
A new Guitar Tuner Holder for holding an electronic guitar tuner on a microphone stand. The inventive device includes a tuner bracket adapted to securely hold an electronic guitar tuner and a...
5719343 Digital aural musical instrument tuning  
Methods and apparatus determine tuning frequencies for an instrument, such as a piano, by sounding at least three musical notes of the instrument. The sounded notes are recorded and digitally...
5637820 Stringed instrument with on-board tuner  
A stringed instrument with an on-board tuner which detects vibrations of the strings and determines and displays the identity of the string which is being played and the deviation of the string's...
5585583 Interactive musical instrument instruction system  
A musical instrument instruction system utilizes a CD-ROM electronic storage medium to store audio and video musical instrument instructional materials. Instructional materials are accessed...
5563358 Music training apparatus  
An apparatus to assist the musical instruction of a student including one or more tone sources (e.g. flute, human voice, violin) playing monophonically as inputs, means to quantify aural parameters...
5549028 Chromatic tuner display providing guitar note and precision tuning information  
A chromatic tuner display is provided for indicating a relative difference between a pitch of a sound and a pitch of a desired note of a musical scale. The display comprises a base member, a...
5537908 Acoustic response of components of musical instruments  
A method for improving the sound producing ability of musical instruments by securing at least some components of the instrument to a supporting surface and then vibrating the surface at various...
5501130 Just intonation tuning  
Apparatus for adjusting the tuning of a musical instrument to cause the instrument to sound in just intonation while the instrument is being played comprises a data base in memory for storing an...
5427011 Chromatic tuner display  
A chromatic tuner display comprises a base member, with a predetermined point on the base member corresponding to the precise pitch of a desired musical note. The display includes colored light...
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