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7598449 Musical instrument  
A musical device is disclosed that generates note tones, influences the sound of notes that are generated independently and performs a variety of user defined or user controlled activities. These...
7446253 Method and apparatus for sensing and displaying tablature associated with a stringed musical instrument  
A system and method of enhancing guitar instruction based on Tablature Plus encoding of playing techniques within a MIDI file or other data structure, that may be rendered on an associated player...
7238875 Electronic musical instrument  
There is provided an electronic musical instrument which is capable of muting by a simple operation. A plurality of fret operating elements are provided on a fingerboard, for determining the pitch....
7238876 Method of automated musical instrument finger finding  
A computerized automated method for determining fingering of musical instruments from digitized scored music or tablature. The computerized automated finger finder method determines fingering such...
6444891 Electronic guitar with its keys arranged in complex array  
Electronic guitar including a case, a keyboard, a sound synthesis electronic assembly and an output line. The keyboard is divided into an upper keyboard arranged on a neck of the case and a lower...
6018119 Stringless twitch fret instrument  
The stringless fret instrument to be played as on a twitch instrument consists of the neck (1) on which there are frets (2) located transversely to a lengthwise axis of the neck (1), between which...
5900571 Two dimensional musical instrument with three-quarter steps along one dimension  
A musical instrument includes a two-dimension array of note producing elements wherein the elements along one dimension of the array have three-quarter steps or increasing fundamental frequencies F...
5739455 Electronic guitar music simulation system  
An electronic guitar music simulation system which includes a guitar shaped keyboard having multiple key switches corresponding to various musical notes. A control processor within the guitar...
5698808 Electronic guitar having power conducting pick  
An electronic stringed instrument which simulates an acoustic counterpart, such as a guitar, in the aspect of string arrangement. The strings on the novel electronic instrument are actually...
5167179 Electronic musical instrument for simulating a stringed instrument  
In order to accurately simulate the sounding system of the stringed instrument such as the violin and cello, an electronic musical instrument provides a performance unit such as a keyboard and a...
5040447 Electronic stringed instrument with fingering operating data memory system and navigate display device  
In an electronic stringed instrument, when a fingered string is plucked, the initiation of vibration of the plucked string is detected by a string vibration sensor to generate timing data...
5033351 Fingerboard and neck for electronic musical instrument  
A fingerboard and a neck for an electronic musical instrument according to the present invention are used for an electronic musical instrument, such as an electronic guitar, an electronic violin,...
5024134 Pitch control device for electronic stringed instrument  
A plurality of strings are extended along a surface of a body, and an operation by a player with respect to the strings is detected by two detection systems. The first detection system is operated...
4986157 Electronic musical instrument with a fret-split function  
The present invention relates to an electronic musical instrument with a fret-split function, which is used in electronic stringed instruments such as an electronic guitar, electronic violin,...
4977813 Electronic musical instrument having playing and parameter adjustment mode  
An electronic musical instrument having a parameter adjustment mode and playing mode of operation includes a plurality of fret members located at predetermined spacings, a string stretched over the...
4966052 Electronic musical instrument  
Root and type of a chord are discriminated at discriminators in accordance with the operation status on a fingerboard. The chord is designated according to a simplified fingering rule predetermined...
4953439 Electronic musical instrument with quantized resistance strings  
For reading the frets of a stringed electronic musical instrument, a plurality of resistance wire strings are secured to a nut end and a bridge of the instrument, with the strings superposing in...
4951546 Electronic stringed musical instrument  
For elimination of an error made in a sound production, an electronic fretted and stringed musical instrument operates in a parameter adjusting mode of operation prior to a playing mode of...
4748887 Electric musical string instruments and frets therefor  
An electric string instrument, e.g. an electric guitar, has one or more resistive elements associated with each fret whereby sideways deflection of a string while in contact with a fret creates a...
4723468 Electronic stringed instrument  
An electronic stringed instrument includes strings, a plurality of metal frets, an ultrasonic transmitter/receiver, and a fret discriminator. The strings are kept taut above an instrument body. The...
4635518 Segmented fret electronic musical instrument  
An electronic stringed musical instrument having an electrically insulating fingerboard is disclosed. The fingerboard is provided with a number of segmented frets attached across its upper surface...
4468997 Fretboard to synthesizer interface apparatus  
Apparatus for detecting note selection on a guitar fretboard including a differential amplifier for detecting voltage drops across successive fret pairs, a multiplexer for connecting successive...
4372187 Novel guitar-like electronic musical instrument  
By providing as circuit activators flexible, intentionally damped, vibratory elements, for example strings, the resonant frequency of which may be unrelated to the tone to be generated, while...
4357852 Guitar synthesizer  
A guitar synthesizer comprises a guitar portion and a synthesizer portion which are electrically connected to each other. The guitar portion includes strings stretched between a nut and a bridge...
4321852 Stringed instrument synthesizer apparatus  
A musical instrument for cooperation with an electronic synthesizer having a parallel-control fretboard on a mountable neck member. Electronics associated with the neck member provide accurate...
4306480 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument having a fret board and a plurality of conductive frets may be coupled to a resistance ladder of discrete resistive elements. A conductive wire or a plurality of...
4235141 Electronic apparatus  
An apertured insulating strip permits closing a circuit only at contact points defined by the apertures between a low resistance conductor and a high resistance conductor in an electronic circuit...
4038897 Electronic music system and stringed instrument input device therefor  
An electronic music system includes a voltage controlled tone generator, or synthesizer, and an input device, in the form of a guitar or other fretted stringed instrument and associated electronic...
3871247 Musical instrument employing time division multiplexing techniques to control a second musical instrument  
A system for controlling the operation of tone producing components of one musical instrument from the keyboard of a manually played musical instrument involves the use of an encoder that produces...
3786167 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS  
Musical instruments playable in duet fashion by one player includes a stringed instrument with segmented frets. A control system for the other instrument includes a control circuit for each string...
3673304 ELECTRONIC GUITAR HAVING PLURAL OUTPUT CHANNELS, ONE OF WHICH SIMULATES AN ORGAN  
An electric guitar is coupled through one channel of a stereo amplifier to a corresponding speaker in conventional manner while separate means responsive to string movements and pedal controls...
3662641 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL APPARATUS  
An electronic musical instrument in which the fingerboard of a guitar is replaced by capacitive touch contact switches simulating all of the fret positions of a string. The touch plates are coupled...
3555166 GUITAR-LIKE ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH PLURAL MANUALS  
An electronic musical instrument for simulating a stringed instrument, such as a guitar, wherein the main body of the instrument is coupled to an elongated fingerboard member extending outwardly...
3541912 MANUAL AND CHORD BUTTON BANK PORTABLENECKED BODY FOR AN ELECTRIC ORGAN  
3539699 TWO-IN-ONE STRINGED ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT WITH STRING PICKUP AND TONE GENERATOR  
3530227 STRINGED GUITAR WITH ELECTRONIC ORGAN TONE GENERATORS ACTUATED WITH FINGERBOARD SWITCHES OR FRETS AND CONDUCTIVE PICK  
3482028 GUITAR TYPE KEYING SYSTEM FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS  
3482029 GUITAR WITH REMOTE CONTROL ORGAN PLAYING MEANS  
3340343 Stringless guitar-like electronic musical instrument  
3322877 Electrical musical instrument having fingerboard with continuously variable finger tone spacing  
3223771 Electronic musical instrument employing finger-pressure means to sequentially energize oscillator means and amplifier means  
3217079 Electronic guitar  
3213180 Tone generation system  
3178500 Preference network  
3116357 Musical instrument  
2792738 Fretted electronic musical instrument  
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