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8163992 Electronic input device for use with steel pans and associated methods  
A device for digitizing a series of notes to be played on a pan instrument includes a processor and software installed on the processor that has a code segment adapted to display a virtual keyboard...
8093481 Systems and methods for automatic collision avoidance, grouping and alignment of musical symbols  
Systems and methods for editing a computer-base musical score include detecting a collision between objects placed in the score and automatically moving one of the colliding objects out of the way...
7977556 Music notation system  
The invention relates to a music notation system that obviates the need for one to have any knowledge of conventional music notation in order to play a keyboard, including those that are a...
7919702 Apparatus and method of displaying infinitely small divisions of measurement  
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for visualization of precise levels of measurement. In one embodiment, labels are placed around the perimeter of a circle. The difference...
7888578 Electronic musical score display device  
An electronic musical score display device comprises an electronic display panel displaying at least one page of musical score data; a manipulator that will transmit a page turn signal wirelessly,...
7875785 Instructional device and method for piano or other musical keyboard  
An instructional device and associated method for illustrating the positions of keys and their associated notes on a keyboard are provided. The instructional device includes key markers that are...
7842877 Electronic input device for use with steel pans and associated methods  
A system for digitizing a series of notes to be played on a steel pan/drum includes a processor, and a display device and an input device in signal communication with the processor. Software...
7799983 Music teaching tool for steel pan and drum players and associated methods  
A tool is provided for assisting in teaching music to a player of a steel pan/drum. The tool comprises a substantially circular base divided into twelve radial sectors, a central sector, and three...
7754955 Virtual reality composer platform system  
A virtual reality composer platform and system (VRCPS) includes a plurality of user input/output devices and signal input/output controllers interfaced to a central processing unit complete with...
7674970 Multifunctional digital music display device  
Herein described are at least a method and a system for assisting a musician in playing an instrument by way of using an intelligent multifunctional digital music display device (MDMDD). The...
7507893 Method for teaching music  
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for teaching music to one or more students. The instructor's manual operation of a musical instrument controls in real-time the...
7365261 Musical performance data creating apparatus with visual zooming assistance  
In an apparatus for creating musical performance data according to operations of a user, a screen display section displays an input screen having a data input area for use in inputting of musical...
7241945 Morpheus music notation system  
Devices, methods and system for a morpheus music notation system adapted for key, string, wind and percussion instruments for ease of teaching and learning music intuitively. Intuitive morpheus...
7176371 Algorithmic combo-instrument slide ruler for musical reference  
An algorithmic combo-instrument slide ruler comprising one common part working in cooperation with two interchangeable parts selected from separate multitudes of unique yet related parts. An opaque...
7094960 Musical score display apparatus  
A musical score display apparatus reads note data and lyric data, and displays the read note data and lyric data on a displayed musical score. In the case where the lyric data are displayed to...
6969793 Piano key finder and chord indicator  
An instructional device for use by music students is constructed as an outer sleeve having a slide member fitted within it. The outer sleeve has first and second sets of openings and is imprinted...
6936759 Teaching method and template to make a guide to teach piano  
A plastic template is disclosed with elongated slots and circular holes in it. The template can be put on a piece of paper and by running pencil through the various slots, all of the scales,...
6753466 Electronic programmable system for playing stringed instruments and method of using same  
An electronic programmable system including a membrane switch chordboard with a printed chord arrangement affixed to the chordboard. A chord arrangement is written for each different stringed...
6635815 Electronic music providing apparatus  
The electronic music providing apparatus comprises a music control unit which inputs score data, classifies the score data into music data of each play part, and transmits it, and an electronic...
6605767 Music learning system including instrument and method  
A musical learning system including an instrument and method is disclosed. The instrument is comprised of a rectangularly shaped box designed for convenient handling by an operator in a manner...
6414230 Jazz drumming ride pattern flip chart tool  
A jazz drumming ride pattern flip chart tool comprises at least one ride pattern card and a notation card beneath and extending beyond the ride pattern card. A sliding dowel moved to a place on the...
6392131 Device for patterned input and display of musical notes  
A device for input of musical notes and chords, each triad including a plurality of musical notes and being classified into types according to a number of notes in the chord and the tonal...
6265651 Gauge for selecting musical instrument strings  
The present invention is a gauge for selecting musical instrument strings. It includes a base member and at least one movable member that is engaged to the base member, and which provides...
6239344 Apparatus and method for instructing the playing of notes of a finger operated instrument  
An apparatus and method for instructing a user in the playing of notes associated with a finger operated instrument such as a guitar. A chart has a length and width and presents a planar display...
6232538 System and method for determining music modulation  
A system for determining a musical modulation from a source key to a target key, such that the source key and the target key are selected from a cycle of musical keys. The system includes a...
6111180 Playing cards for teaching reading of musical notes  
A set of playing cards divided into card groups, each card group corresponding to a different note value and containing cards depicting all of the tones of an octave of the chromatic scale. Each...
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...
6015947 Method of teaching music  
A method of teaching students to understand, read, and play sheet music. The method includes first teaching students rote understanding of musical notes and progressing to a structural...
5811705 Learning apparatus  
A learning apparatus for learning notes includes a planar, one-part or multi-part board, made of wood, cardboard, plastic, or a similar, nearly form-rigid material with a working surface,...
5775915 Form of music notation  
There is a musical score in which the key and any accidentals are indicated by visual coding of the individual notes and associated components as they appear throughout said score. The visual...
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...
5685724 System of teaching music  
A method of teaching music and the charts to do so are provided. The method includes the steps of: teaching the student that "every other finger plays every other key"; showing the student the hand...
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...
5540133 Learning aids  
A learning aid adapted to be attached to an instrument of the type defined. The learning aid is arranged to lie generally parallel with the fretboard or fingerboard of the instrument and to afford...
5448008 Musical-tone control apparatus with means for inputting a bowing velocity signal  
In order to simulate sounds of an acoustic musical instrument such as a bowed stringed instrument, an electronic musical instrument employs a musical tone control apparatus which at least contains...
5429029 Guitar scale calculator  
The guitar scale calculator device of the present invention has a longitudinal housing with a longitudinal open window. A scroll is disposed within the housing and is visible through the open...
5370539 Scale and chord indicator device  
A chord or scale indicating device includes at least one fixed member and at least one movable member. On one of the fixed or movable members a scale is provided of at least one octave including...
5309812 Method and device to aid in learning to play chords on a harmonica  
An elongated flexible sheet (20) contains numbers (22, 26) and corresponding parallel lines (24) that are aligned with the holes (13) of a harmonica (11). The top portion of the sheet (20) contains...
5254008 Device for teaching music  
A simple teaching kit for use by music teachers and students at any level to illustrate the theory of music. The kit comprises representations of the treble and bass clefs and two octave sections...
5247131 Electronic musical instrument with multi-model performance manipulator  
An electronic musical instrument capable of achieving a variety of performance mode. A manipulation region to be played with a hand manipulator is divided into regions of different performance...
5144875 Music sheet  
There is provided a music sheet having a magnetic data recording section. The magnetic data recording section is provided in parallel with a lower edge of the sheet and stores automatic performance...
4832605 Teaching and demonstration system  
A teaching and demonstration system is disclosed comprising a looseleaf notebook with a clear plastic pocket attached to the outside of its front cover. A metallic sheet is inserted into the pocket...
4736665 Musical language game  
A musical language game including a plurality of board modules with musical staff lines in the form of painted grooves on one face of the board. A series of grooves are defined on another face of...
4706536 Membrane keyboard for songbook tone generator  
A membrane keyboard for e.g. a low cost electronic tone generator of the type affixed to the binding of a songbook is disclosed. The keyboard includes a base carrying a set of interdigital upwardly...
4552052 Modulation rule  
A modulation rule having a member marked with a keyboard including white keys and black keys arranged in a similar manner to that of a keyboard musical instrument, and an indication table in which...
4464971 Musical education display apparatus  
A musical education display apparatus for musical instruction or composition. A display board is utilized with staff indicia which, in turn, is capable of removably restraining and displaying a...
4444083 Keyboard instrument, especially a piano or similar instrument  
Keyboard instrument, in particular a piano or similar instrument that has keys and that can be used in conjunction with aids to learning in the form of templates, characterized in that, of the...
4404886 Note reading octave isolator  
A musical teaching and playing aid has a sheath with a front panel defining spaced octaves of a keyboard instrument keyboard with slits just above the keys for the insertion of insert cards each of...
4295407 Keyboard simulation with vertical inversion indexes  
A teaching aid simplifies the understanding and practicing of the inversions of the major triads of the diatonic scale by utilizing a series of insert cards which slide into a simulated keyboard...
4281578 Clef and scale indicator for music instruments  
A programmable music instrument comprises an indicator for indicating a particular tone having a clef and a relevant scale on a screen, a liquid crystal display, and an electrochromic display cell...
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