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6215057 Sound generating educational musical toy and teaching device  
A music toy or teaching device includes one or more sound generating devices operative to generate sound in a selected output format chosen from plural formats. The music teaching device provides...
6211451 Music lesson system with local training terminal and remote supervisory station  
A music apparatus is communicable with a supervisory computer through a network for remotely training a user in matching with a skill level. In the music apparatus, an instrument is manually...
6204441 Method and apparatus for effectively displaying musical information with visual display  
An electronic musical apparatus for effectively displaying musical information such as notes and beats is configured using a keyboard, a visual display (e.g., liquid crystal display) and a storage...
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...
6188008 Chord indication apparatus and method, and storage medium  
A chord indication apparatus and method and a storage medium are provided which enable the indication of string plucking positions for playing chords with plural kinds of stringed instruments. A...
6180865 Melody performance training apparatus and recording mediums which contain a melody performance training program  
Prestored melody data is read out as the performance of the melody progresses. When event data contained in the read melody data represents a key to be depressed for a melody performance, the key...
6175069 Music instruction apparatus  
A music instruction apparatus. The apparatus includes a support frame (13), a plurality of blocks (22) in rotating connection with the support frame. The blocks are organized in an array pattern of...
6175070 System and method for variable music notation  
A control program tangibly stored on a digital storage medium for use with a music system is configured to cause a digital processor to carry out the following functions. It causes the processor to...
6169239 Method and system for visually coding a musical composition to indicate musical concepts and the level of difficulty of the musical concepts  
A method and system for visually coding a musical composition to indicate musical concepts defined by the musical notation and the level of difficulty of the musical concepts. First, a set of...
6162981 Finger placement sensor for stringed instruments  
Apparatus providing instructional assistance to a student playing a stringed musical instrument. The apparatus instructs the student of proper finger placement on the instrument's strings and...
6156964 Apparatus and method of displaying music  
A music score display device that eliminates the need for hard copy sheet music and manually turning pages or advancing the music score. The music score display device includes a storage device for...
6142849 Musical toy  
A musical toy shaped like a rainbow or a banjo which generates musical sounds in response to interruption of one or more radiation beams is disclosed. In one embodiment, the musical toy is provided...
6143972 Device and method for playing music from a score  
6137041 Music score reading method and computer-readable recording medium storing music score reading program  
A sign recognizing step of recognizing all signs, including notes, of a music score, a notation estimating step of estimating a drum notation in a drum part of the music score based on information...
6127615 Stringed-instrument practice device  
A stringed-instrument practice device for improving a player's rhythm-hand technique involved in playing a stringed instrument. Such a device may have a generally rectangular base including a...
6121529 Information input apparatus for music composition and related applications  
An information input apparatus comprises a casing which is held by an operator by opposite end portions thereof. At least one selection operating element is arranged on the front surface of the...
6087577 Music navigator with visual image presentation of fingering motion  
A music navigator provides a visual image indication or presentation of fingering motion of a hand in playing notes. In an embodiment, the music navigator employs a fingered music storage and a...
6072113 Musical performance teaching system and method, and machine readable medium containing program therefor  
A fully computerized musical performance teaching system comprises a computer apparatus having a keyboard and a display and is connectable to an electronic musical instrument. An application...
6066791 System for instructing the playing of a musical instrument  
The present invention discloses a novel method and apparatus for instructing a student how to play a musical instrument. The method includes providing a display device, displaying a staff on the...
6051769 Computerized reading display  
An electronic reading system is provided including a housing and a display mounted on the housing. Also included is a storage device drive positioned within the housing for removably receiving a...
6037534 Keyboard musical instrument and electric tutor for guiding fingers on keyboard  
An electric tutor is assembled with an upright piano having a keyboard and a key stop rail laterally extending over the rear end portions of the black/white keys, and includes a comb-like flexible...
6031172 Music teaching aid  
A music teaching aid having a number of reference rings that are positioned so as to have independent rotatable movement on a base member. Depending on the shape of the base member, the reference...
6031171 Performance data analyzer  
A performance data analyzer wherein a plurality of pitch name lines each comprised of essential pitch names characterizing each of plural tonalities are memorized and wherein one of the memorized...
6025550 Musical performance training data transmitters and receivers, and storage mediums which contain a musical performance training program  
A musical performance training system includes a transmitter which transmits training musical note data for training musical performance, and a receiver which receives the training musical note...
6018117 Device for familiarizing a child with a musical instrument  
A device for familiarizing a child with a keyboard of a musical instrument and for familiarizing a child with musical concepts. The device comprises at least two blocks, each block having a top...
6011210 Musical performance guiding device and method for musical instruments  
In performance data storing tracks, there are stored, in a mixed condition, actual performance data including pairs of pitch data designating a pitch of a tone to be performed and volume data of...
5997306 Method for instructing the cognitive relationships between primary and related elements  
The present invention is directed to an instructional method based on the concept that as a student learns to perform a mental task consisting of a set of elements or steps, whether conceptual or...
5920023 Stringed instrument finger positioning guide and method for teaching students to read music  
The present invention is directed to a device for teaching students of stringed instruments note locations and proper finger placement on the fingerboard of the instrument. The device may be...
5902946 Instrument for musical therapy  
A musical instrument for musical therapy which stimulates and urges patients suffering from dementia, aphasia, and other functional disorders of the brain to voluntarily play and to sing a song...
5856628 Table-type electronic percussion instrument  
A table-type electronic percussion instrument is constructed by a table board, legs, pads as well as a musical tone generation circuit and a speaker system. Herein, the table board has a specific...
5811704 Guitar practice device  
A practice device (10) that allows a musician to practice the specific skills of picking and plucking strings without producing any significant level of sound, such that the user can practice his...
5810747 Remote site medical intervention system  
An interactive intervention training system used for monitoring a patient suffering from neurological disorders of movement or a subject seeking to improve skill performance and assisting their...
5760323 Networked electronic music display stands  
The present invention is directed to an electronic display stand that can advance through musical notes without interrupting a musician's performance. The stand can be controlled by remote...
5668333 Musical rainbow toy  
A musical toy is provided with a base member, a second member connected to the base member so as to form a substantially unobstructed space between the second member and the base member, a...
5597968 Percussion music teaching method  
The invention is a music teaching method designed for the student of non-pitched percussion instruments incorporating two major components. First, a limited selection of basic percussion exercises...
5592143 Pulsed-tone timing exercise method  
A pulsed-tone timing method. Pulsed audible guide tones are activated at an initial pulsing rate. The pulsing rate is manipulated so as to repeatable (i) increase the pulsing rate over a time span...
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...
5574235 Harmonica hole shield  
This invention features a U-shaped hole shield, for isolating one harmonica hole at a time, and is sufficiently long to span the lips of a harmonica player. In the center of the face of the...
5569867 Musical education toy  
A musical education toy capable of receiving balls in a prearranged order, separating them according to size, and then guiding them to corresponding xylophone bars in order to play selected tunes....
5544562 Apparatus of a playing practice for electronic musical instrument and control method thereof  
An apparatus and method for practicing playing an electronic musical instrument which includes a select section for selecting a music teacher mode, a display section for displaying a score and key,...
5540132 Method and apparatus for teaching musical notation to young children  
A method for teaching musical notation to children. Each note is associated with a distinctly identifiable color, which is in turn associated with an object which naturally occurs in this color....
5495786 Method and apparatus for controlling scale practice of electronic musical instrument  
A method and an apparatus for controlling scale practice of an electronic musical instrument. The apparatus includes a function select switching section for selecting a desired one of various...
5405153 Musical electronic game  
The game includes a device for randomly selecting a sequence of musical notes for game playing purposes. Another device enables a player to preview a recognition sequence of a portion of the...
5392682 Computerized training device for learning to play a piano  
A computerized musical keyboard and a method for using same to play or to learn to play a piano. The computerized musical keyboard includes a standard piano keyboard connected to a computer. The...
5266735 Music training instrument and method  
An improved method and apparatus for learning to play a musical instrument retrieve a stored sequence of musical notes and other data from a source, and determine locations on the musical...
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...
5219291 Electronic educational video system apparatus  
An electronic educational video system apparatus for connection to a standard television receiver for teaching basic skills to a child through the use of animated graphic displays which serve to...
5214228 Electronic metronome  
An electronic metronome includes an adjustable oscillator driving a first frequency divider, a crystal time base driving a second frequency divider for generating a pair of audible frequencies, a...
5183398 Apparatus and method for interactive instruction of a student  
An apparatus and method for instruction of a student which includes interactive guidance of the student through a series of lesson frames includes providing the student with a keyboard having a...
5088378 Method of adapting a typewriter keyboard to control the production of music  
A method of adapting a keyboard musical instrument to produce sound in response to the activation of keys included in a typewriter keyboard is disclosed. A standard typewriter keyboard is coupled...
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