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7608776 Modular structures facilitating field-customized floor controllers  
The invention allows for easy field-customization of floor controllers using techniques that are similar to those applicable to the easy creation of aggregated instruments. The invention further...
6965070 Upright keyboard instrument  
An upright keyboard instrument comprises a prescribed number of keys that are interlocked with actions, hammer assemblies, and a plate spring unit, which is interlocked with a loud pedal. When the...
6777606 Automatic accompanying apparatus of electronic musical instrument  
In an electronic musical instrument, a key operation detecting section detects a key operation on a keyboard, and the hand key operation contains a key pushing operation and a key releasing...
6762357 Resonance apparatus, resonance method and computer program for resonance processing  
Resonance is realized at a desired plurality of tone pitches even after the musical tone signals of a plurality of channels have been synthesized; synthesized musical tone signals are successively...
6689947 Real-time floor controller for control of music, signal processing, mixing, video, lighting, and other systems  
A floor controller for real-time control of signal processors, synthesizers, musical instruments, MIDI processors, lighting, video, and special effects in performance, recording, and composition...
6380475 Chord detection technique for electronic musical instrument  
A chord detection apparatus for an electronic musical instrument has a hand keyboard for hand operation, a foot keyboard for foot operation, a hand-keyboard detection unit for detecting a temporary...
6201173 System for remotely playing a percussion musical instrument  
An arrangement for enabling facile and efficient operation of at least one bass drum mallet, in combination with at least one bass drum, such that the bass drum with its associated mallet can be...
5981862 Guitar effects pedal with foot operated overdrive control dial  
A guitar effects pedal system is provided including a base and a pair of ports mounted on the base for receiving an input cord to a guitar and an output core to an amplifier, respectively. An...
5886279 Switch mechanism of piano with built-in electronic musical instrument  
A switch mechanism of a piano with a built-in electronic musical instrument, which eliminates the disposition of switches on the surface of a piano to improve the appearance of the piano. An...
5803835 Musical hop scotch game kit  
A game kit including a pliable hop scotch mat, an electrical actuated sound producing component and a plurality of individual electrical switches disposed between layers of the mat and adapted to...
5741995 Keyboard instrument for selectively producing mechanical sounds and synthetic sounds without any mechanical vibrations on music wires  
In order to give piano-like key touch to a player in an electronically sound producing mode, a keyboard incorporated in a musical instrument is linked with key action mechanisms associated with...
5726374 Keyboard electronic musical instrument with guitar emulation function  
A polyphonic electronic musical instrument is provided wherein a keyboard is used to trigger arpeggiated chords which emulate a strumming guitar sound. Select keys are provided for selecting which...
5659145 Foot operated audio signal controller with lighted visual reference  
A foot-operated signal controlling pedal with a series of LED's integrated in the pedal housing to indicate signal level. The pedal may perform one or more of a variety of sound effect functions...
5550321 Foot operated electronic musical apparatus  
A foot operated electronic musical instrument with a plurality of foot actuated pedals, which correspond to the notes produced by a bass guitar. Depressing a particular pedal causes an electronic...
5391830 Foot pedal control system incorporated in musical instrument and shared between analog signal and digital signal  
A foot pedal control system incorporated in an electrical musical keyboard instrument is expected to decide an output signal of a foot control pedal unit to be either analog or digital signal on...
5350883 Electronic musical instrument with a pedal  
An electronic piano with a pedal, which can control various parameters by the pedal. The electronic piano has a mode switch for selecting a mode, and the electoronic piano switches parameters to be...
5166467 Foot pedal operation of an electronic synthesizer  
A chord-generating synthesizer system including an electronic keyboard instrument and a remote control unit operable by a musician's foot--while the musician is using both hands to simultaneously...
5028776 High hat actuating system with photoelectric control means  
A high hat cymbals device is automatically actuated to hold the cymbals locked in place. The presence or absence of the drummer's foot on or above the foot pedal for actuating the high hat is...
5022305 Tube overdrive pedal operable using low voltage DC battery eliminator  
The distortion pedal for electric guitar and other electronic musical instruments employs vacuum tube circuitry operated by low voltage "battery eliminator" DC power supply. A pull-up resistor...
4488468 Electronic musical instrument and compact pedal board and storage case therefor  
An electronic musical instrument including a compact, portable pedal board and a storage case for the pedal board and for the electronic components of the instrument is disclosed. The pedal board...
4462294 Control unit for an electrical musical instrument  
Manually operable control apparatus for an electrical musical instrument such as an electronic organ having automatic chord circuitry which includes a plurality of spaced apart individually...
4342244 Musical apparatus  
A musical apparatus including a novel combination by which a musician may control the output of a musical synthesizer, while playing his own musical instrument in a normal manner. The musical...
4245539 Musical platform  
Apparatus for producing signals of varying volume and pitch which are functions of the magnitude and distribution respectively, of weight (or weights) placed upon a platform hinged at one corner...
4227432 Electronic musical instrument having multiplexed keying  
An electronic musical instrument having tone signal sources and keyers for the tone signal sources has a time division multiplexer for multiplexing the key-down information in groups such as for...
4211141 Pedal control circuits for electronic piano  
Pedal control circuits for use with an electronic musical instrument, such as a piano, which provide control functions analogous to the actions of a sustaining pedal, of a sostenuto pedal, and of a...
4200025 Foot-operated control device  
A foot-operated control device for musical instruments includes a self-contained sounding member which can be struck by a beater pivotally attached to the device.
4185530 Automatic glissando  
A circuit intended for use with electronic organs and, more specifically, with those electronic organs in which the keyboard switches are multiplexed, and which circuit provides a method for...
4121488 Step-on type tone scale play device  
A step-on type tone scale play device has a flexible mat within which is arranged a plurality of flexible switch elements in accordance with a tone scale and is adapted to produce corresponding...
4100831 Automatic digital circuit for generating chords in a digital organ  
An automatic chord generating circuit for a digital polyphonic tone synthesizer having one or more keyboards. Key operated switches are connected in groups corresponding to the notes in an octave....
4043242 Circuit for musical instrument  
An electronic circuit connected to and operated by the bass buttons of an accordion to simulate a string bass instrument. The circuit can be disposed in the accordion or remote from the accordion....
3986425 Bass signal control circuit  
This invention relates to a circuit for use in an electronic musical instrument such as an organ, the instrument having two separate sources of bass signals and transducing elements for converting...
3939751 Tunable electrical musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument including two or more keyboards individually capable of selecting, simultaneously, any twelve out of at least 1,024 discrete pitches per octave to produce scales of...
3922944 Stepping musical machine  
A stepping musical machine for physical and acoustic training of children such that stepping-boards are arranged on a jumpy sheet, a net or the like stretched in a taut condition and which is...
3842701 ELECTRONIC ORGAN WITH RHYTHM ATTACHMENT EMPLOYING SELECTIVE OPERATION OF CONVENTIONAL OR RHYTHMIC SOUNDS  
A rhythm attachment, or unit, for an electronic organ, in which a pulse generator is provided which generates pulses according to predetermined timed patterns. The pulses thus generated are...
3839592 PLURAL MODE AUTOMATIC BASS SYSTEM WITH PEDAL SUSTAIN  
A system is provided for automatically playing bass notes from accompaniment chords in a plurality of modes and also for playing bass notes with sustain in response to pedals. A scanner is provided...
3826859 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH FREQUENCY-DEVIATED PEDAL TONE SIGNAL  
In an electronic musical instrument, a tone signal for the pedal keyboard is obtained by frequency-dividing the manual tone signal. The pedal tone signal thus obtained is passed through a frequency...
3806624 DISCOVERY IN KEYING CIRCUIT FOR A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT  
An electrical musical instrument includes a series of tone signal sources under the control of upper manual, lower manual and bass pedal key switches operatively connected to an output system. A...
3800060 KEYNOTE SELECTOR APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC ORGANS  
An electronic organ keynote selection apparatus, for selectively altering the key to which the organ is tuned, may be employed in organs utilizing single voltage controlled master oscillator tone...
3775546 LADDER-LIKE ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT  
Electronic music instrument with separate tone generators which are assigned to the various tones and which are energizable by contact switches or proximity switches. Geometric-type elements are...
3749809 CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT CAPABLE OF CONTINUOUSLY VARYING TONE COLORS FOR ELECTRICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS  
A circuit arrangement connected between tone signal generators and a loud-speaker so as to continuously vary tone colors by successively changing the relatively narrow frequency bands of tone...
3749810 CHOREOGRAPHIC MUSICAL AND/OR LUMINESCENT APPLIANCE  
An assembly or apparatus unit which provides a choreographic musical appliance is so constructed and constituted as to permit and facilitate desired movements of the performer, which can be of a...
3688009 MUSICAL DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY PRODUCING TONE PATTERNS  
Electronically produced pulses are conveyed in predetermined patterns to a tone signal generator for producing a plurality of tone signals which in turn produce a plurality of musical tones, each...
3663735 AUTOMATIC ON-OFF CONTROL  
An electric musical instrument includes several tone modifying circuits. One of these is a special effects formant circuit operated by oscillatory motion of a foot control pedal. The formant...
3614287 MULTIPLEXING ARRANGEMENT FOR ELECTRONIC ORGANS  
A single diode keying arrangement is connected for use with a plurality of keyboards, pedals, stop knobs and other switch operating instrumentalities on a time sharing basis by means of a...
3595980 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH A PERCUSSION SOUND PRODUCING DEVICE  
An electronic musical instrument includes an expression pedal device for controlling the tone volume of the musical tone signal. The device further operably cooperates with a detector for detecting...
3591700 SWITCH OPERATED TONE CONTROL CIRCUITRY AND AMPLIFIER FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS  
The tone control circuit is particularly suited for an amplifier designed primarily for musical tone signals, for example, those generated by an electric guitar. Within the ready and instant...
3590130 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS  
An electronic instrument for simulating the sound effect produced by a piano. The instrument comprises an electronic generator an electric signal of constant amplitude and electrical switching...
3585893 FOOT OPERATED ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT  
An electronic foot operated base guitar having a thin transportable housing. Four rows of foot pedals project from the housing top and define nine evenly spaced columns. Each row corresponds to a...
3562400 PERCUSSION KEYER WITH PEDAL SUSTAIN FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT  
A percussive musical note is simulated. A switch passes a pulse to an RC circuit which differentiates the leading edge. The formed signal simulates a percussive instrument. A second switch adds a...
3560629 MANUALLY-CONTROLLED CIRCUIT  
An electronic chassis is provided at its forward edge with a pivoted foot pedal overlying the chassis. The pedal is journaled between projecting sidewalls of the chassis, and through linkages,...
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