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7432431 Speed detecting apparatus for keyboard musical instrument  
A speed detecting apparatus for a keyboard musical instrument is provided for accurately detecting the speed of bivotal movements of a hammer and a key even if a shutter implies errors in its...
7432430 Musical instrument, music data producer incorporated therein and method for exactly discriminating hammer motion  
In an automatic player piano, hammer sensors monitor associated hammers so as to report current positions on the hammer trajectories, and a data processor analyzes the hammer motion for producing...
7227069 Insertable piano/keyboard strip for sensing key movement  
A portable modular device for the purpose of sensing key movement of a piano or keyboard, processing key movement information, and communicating at least key-note ON/OFF and key-note velocity...
7166792 Storage medium containing musical score displaying data, musical score display apparatus and musical score displaying program  
Musical score displaying data include note or musical score information indicative of a note or musical score symbol to be displayed, position information indicative of a display position on a...
7094962 Score data display/editing apparatus and program  
For a plurality of types of additional attribute data included in note data, a selection section selects one or more of the plurality of types of additional attribute data. For a plurality of the...
6981208 Multimedia data routing system and method  
A technique for providing routing of various multimedia events throughout the course of a multimedia presentation using a computer with a storage and a display. A variety of multimedia objects are...
6472589 Method and apparatus for sensing, controlling and recording key motion in a keyboard musical instrument  
A device and related method for detecting, controlling, and recording keyboard motion in which individual magnets, sensors and actuators associated with each key capture and re-produce key motion...
6411289 Music visualization system utilizing three dimensional graphical representations of musical characteristics  
A computer system for producing a three dimensional illustration of a musical work includes determining for each sound of the musical work its tone, harmony and tonality. Each of these...
6384305 Method and apparatus for sensing key movement in a musical keyboard  
A method and apparatus for measuring and recording keyboard motion in which an array of magnets and sensors capture key movement with high accuracy. This method uses a non-contact sensing and...
6359207 POSITION TRANSDUCER SYSTEM WITH BUILT-IN CALIBRATOR FOR MOVING OBJECT, METHOD FOR ACCURATELY DETERMINING POSITION OF MOVING OBJECT AND KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED WITH THE POSITION TRANSDUCER SYSTEM  
A silent automatic player piano calibrates the black/white keys so as to exactly relate a key position signal to the current key positions on the trajectory of the key by itself before a recording...
6336028 Software function adding method  
An object of the present invention is to provide a system in which it is possible to pre-warn the consumer who is trying to purchase contents that cannot be written on the PD that the contents...
6297437 Keyboard musical instrument and information processing system incorporated therein for discriminating different kinds of key motion  
A keyboard musical instrument includes an acoustic piano for generating acoustic tones, a silent system for rebounding the hammer assemblies between the escape from the key action mechanisms and...
6229081 Keyboard musical instrument, position sensing device and light-emitting controller both incorporated therein  
An automatic player piano is equipped with a position detecting device for detecting current positions of the black/white keys, and the position detecting device radiates light beams across the...
5911169 Recording sensor mounting rail for keyboard operated musical instrument  
An extruded recording sensor mounting rail for keyboard operated musical instruments, particularly electronic player pianos, which can be used to install recording sensors in a new or existing...
5864631 Method and apparatus for musical score recognition with quick processing of image data  
A musical score recognition apparatus is constructed for recording an image of a given musical score and for processing the recorded image to thereby recognize involved components so as to produce...
5841050 Method and apparatus for optically determining note characteristics from key motion in a keyboard operated musical instrument  
A method and apparatus for accurately sensing key motion in a keyboard operated musical instrument, in which optical emitters and sensors are positioned adjacent to the keys. The optical emitters...
5824930 Keyboard musical instrument having key monitor exactly discriminating key motion  
A keyboard musical instrument continuously monitors a key motion, and determines present key state on the basis of the previous key state, the present key position and a lapse of time during the...
5763805 Performance information transmitter and/or receiver for a performance information system  
A performance information transmission system includes a performance information transmitter device and a performance information receiver device which are capable of correcting transmission errors...
5739450 Keyboard musical instrument equipped with dummy key/hammer event supplementing system  
An automatic player piano records an original key motion reciprocated between a rest position and an end position as a series of a key-on event, a hammer event and a key-off event by using...
5731530 Automatic player piano exactly reproducing special touches  
An automatic player piano records not only regular key-on event/impact event/regular key-off event representative of a regular key motion between a rest position and an end position but also...
5714702 Pedal controlling system and method of controlling pedal for recording and reproducing pedal action  
A pedal controller monitors a damper pedal incorporated in an acoustic piano, and reduces the amount of music data information represented by digital pedal position signals through an anti-aliasing...
5691489 Automatic player piano exactly reproducing half stroke in playback  
An automatic player piano controls a solenoid-operated key actuator so as to move a key along a quadratic curve around a turning point where the key changes the direction of the motion, and the...
5675100 Method for encoding music printing information in a MIDI message  
A system and method of communicating music printing information using a minor enhancement to the conventional MIDI standard. This method degrades the communication of traditional MIDI command...
5652399 Automatic player piano and estimator for acceleration of depressed key incorporated in the automatic player piano  
An automatic player piano controls keys to be rotated by solenoid-operated actuator units in such a manner as to pass a reference point on a trajectory of the key at a reference velocity in a...
5648621 Automatic player piano exactly reproducing music recorded on other musical instrument  
An automatic player piano is expected to exactly reproduce sounds generated in an original performance on the basis of music data codes, and a central processing unit incorporated in the automatic...
5641925 High resolution key sensor incorporated in keyboard musical instrument  
A key sensor incorporated in a keyboard musical instrument has a shutter plate attached to a turnable key and photo-interrupters stationary with respect to a key bed, and the shutter plate has an...
5627333 Keyboard musical instrument equipped with built-in distance measuring instrument for hammer sensors  
A hammer sensor incorporated in a keyboard musical instrument monitors a motion of each hammer assembly, and a controller not only determines a hammer velocity and an impact time for generating a...
5523522 Keyboard musical instrument equipped with pedal sensor for discriminating half pedal at high resolution  
A player fingers on the keyboard of an automatic player piano and steps on the soft and damper pedals for variety of musical expression in a recording mode, and a controller drives actuators...
5517892 Electonic musical instrument having memory for storing tone waveform and its file name  
In order to use a plenty of waveform data, representing sampling waveforms of sounds produced from musical instruments, an electronic musical instrument provides a hard disk unit. Herein, musical...
5451708 Automatic player piano equipped with monitoring system on key action for improving fidelity of reproduced music  
A controller module associated with a mechanical piano memorizes a plurality sets of parameters produced from detected trajectories of depressed keys in a floppy disk in a recording mode of...
5396828 Method and apparatus for representing musical information as guitar fingerboards  
A method and apparatus for representing musical information as guitar fingerboards dynamically maps the guitar fingerboards to their associated chord notations as the fingerboards are being...
5345036 Volume control apparatus for an automatic player piano  
An apparatus for automatic playing of a piano has storage register for storing play information, which includes key depression force information, and that sequentially reads the play information...
5335574 Self playing piano and an apparatus for automatic playing of a piano  
An apparatus for automatic playing of a piano, the apparatus activating operation terminals in consonance with received play data to play music. The apparatus includes an input device for receiving...
5291011 Photosensor controller for musical instrument having a driving means for driving a subsequent pair of luminescing means and detecting means in sequence  
A photosensor controller is described comprising sensor units 17-0 to 17-7, 18-0 to 18-7, 19-0 to 19-7 and a circuit 16 driving light emitting diodes by a method of time division. Each sensor unit...
5276270 Solenoid drive system for an automatic performing apparatus  
A solenoid drive system enabling an automatic performing apparatus to control the intensity of key depression with respect to individual keys. Voltage waveform data is provided for each of the...
5274192 Instrument for recording and playing back musical playing data  
An instrument for recording and playing musical playing data comprises a pattern memory, a timing designation key for designating playing back timing of the pattern data, a sequence track for...
5254804 Electronic piano system accompanied with automatic performance function  
An electronic piano system provides an automatic performance piano capable of automatically carrying out pre-recorded performance, plus a key-return speed detecting unit and/or a string-striking...
5252772 Piano teaching computer system  
A computer system connected through appropriate analog and digital circuitry controls or monitors a piano. Solenoids connected to each piano key and to each note-sounding hammer permit a computer...
5237123 Velocity, position and direction-tracking sensor for moving components of musical instruments  
In order to obtain speed and position information about a moving component of a musical instrument a fin extending in the direction of travel of the moving component is coupled thereto as, for...
5225618 Method and apparatus for studying music  
A method and apparatus for studying music includes a music analysis system, which in conjunction with a proprietary storage medium, enables the user to comparatively analyze a recorded musical...
5208413 Vocal display device  
Conventional karaoke devices simply show lyrics on screen. This invention displays not only lyrics but also data useful for the enhancement of the singer's presentation such as the strength of the...
5202526 Apparatus for interpreting written music for its performance  
A music interpreter apparatus automatically interprets a notational music composition (written or printed music), which is abstract and incomplete to some extent, to provide its performance...
5146833 Computerized music data system and input/out devices using related rhythm coding  
A computerized musical instrument system has a processing system for converting multiple modes of music data input into relative rhythm coded data in the format of pitch codes and relative rhythm...
5131309 Performance recording/reproducing apparatus enabling correction or modification of playing information  
The invention provides a performance recording/reproducing apparatus including a playing information recording device, a data discrimination device and a data transfer device. The data...
5131306 Automatic music playing piano  
The present invention relates to a pedal movement control and recording apparatus for an automatic music playing piano in which the pedal displacement corresponding to sequentially changing pedal...
5113738 Recorded music enhancement system  
A recorded music enhancement system (RMES) utilizing a recording media such as audio tape or compact disc with a separate track for a control waveform or digital code which controls secondary...
5085116 Automatic performance apparatus  
An automatic performance apparatus for recording performance data in a memory for controlling generation of musical tones, wherein the change or changes of pitch, key-on timing, key-off timing,...
5038659 Musical score block copy forming apparatus  
A musical score block copy forming apparatus has a musical keyboard (1) having a full-scale key group and a chromatic-scale key group, and a function keyboard (2) having function keys, and the...
5022301 Multiplexed multiple intensity reproducing piano  
A reproducing piano is provided which is capable of reproducing the notes of a chord or a sequence of multiple intensity notes within several groups of common intensity. This is accomplished by...
5016513 Method and apparatus for reproducing pedaling effects in a piano performance  
There is disclosed a method and apparatus for reproducing in a player piano the pedal mechanism movements which approximate those of the original performance from a tape or other recording medium...
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