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7612273 Electronic percussion instrument  
An electronic percussion instrument that detects vibrations due to a hit and outputs a corresponding signal where the head of the instrument is held in place independent of a rim part. The...
7605324 Apparatus for assisting in playing musical instrument  
An apparatus is to assist an unskilled player in playing a musical instrument by detecting the quantity of the player's manipulation against the instrument, modifying the detected manipulation...
7589275 Electronic hi-hat cymbal  
An electronic hi-hat cymbal comprises a hi-hat having a strike detector, a pedal unit having a stepped degree detector, a waveform data memory for storing a plurality of electronic hi-hat sound...
7582825 Method and apparatus for keyboard instrument learning  
A method and apparatus for keyboard instrument learning are disclosed. The learning device comprises: a data access/storage device, for storing musical compositions and fingerings; an image signal...
7582822 Metronome and system for maintaining a common tempo among a plurality of musicians  
A method and apparatus provides metronomes capable of wireless synchronization with other similar metronomes. A metronome includes a tactile device capable of conveying the tempo and beat to a user...
7572971 Sound system and method for creating a sound event based on a modeled sound field  
A sound system and method for modeling a sound field generated by a sound source and creating a sound event based on the modeled sound field is disclosed. The system and method captures a sound...
7569758 Electronic percussion system and electronic percussion instrument incorporated therein  
An electronic drum system includes an electronic drum having a shell, a drum head stretched across an opening of the shell, a vibration sensor converting vibrations of the drum head to an electric...
7566827 Variable slippage control for a disk jockey control surface  
The disclosure pertains to a scratch effect controller for use by a disk jockey, wherein at least one electromagnet creates the slippage tension or friction effect between the user manipulated...
7563977 Stringed musical instrument device  
A stringed musical instrument device that functions as a peripheral for a computer or computing device, whereby electronic transducers placed inside and/or outside the instrument convert the...
7554028 Performance assist apparatus of wind instrument  
In an apparatus for assisting play of a wind instrument, an actuator is attached to the wind instrument for vibrating a portion of the wind instrument so as to assist play of the wind instrument. A...
7538268 Keys for musical instruments and musical methods  
A keyboard ( 25 ) has keys ( 10 ) mounted to pivot about a vertical axis as well as about a horizontal axis. Movement of the keys ( 10 ) about tile vertical axis is detected to adjust the sounds...
7528318 Musical tone control apparatus and method  
There is provided a musical tone control apparatus that enables a user to easily play a musical instrument without spoiling the user's feeling that he is actually playing a musical instrument. A...
7528309 Automatic player musical instruments and automatic playing system incorporated therein  
While an automatic player piano is reenacting a music tune, the automatic player piano sometimes fails to miss a tone or tones in a repetition due to a high-speed key movement; a controller...
7525032 Percussion detecting apparatus and electronic percussion instrument  
A percussion detecting apparatus and an electronic percussion instrument, which are capable of not only providing excellent percussion feeling, but also visually indicating a percussion pattern of...
7521628 Electrical musical instrument with user interface and status display  
A string musical instrument, such as an electric guitar, comprises a plurality of sound pickups and a user interface which allows the user rapid access to various configurations of pickup settings...
7521627 Automatic player musical instrument, automatic player incorporated therein and method used therein  
An automatic player piano is fabricated on the basis of an acoustic piano, and an automatic player is expected to give rise to key motion for reenacting performance with solenoid-operated key...
7514626 Method and apparatus for electrostatic pickup for stringed musical instruments  
This invention relates to the method and apparatus for electrostatic pickup of sound from stringed musical instruments to addresses the unique requirements of acoustic stringed musical instruments...
7514625 Electronic keyboard musical instrument  
An electronic keyboard musical instrument which can realize natural sounds with favorable sound quality as an acoustic piano. A sound board 33 made of a plate member is vibrated so as to generate...
7507902 Transcending extensions of traditional East Asian musical instruments  
East Asia's unique musical instruments and traditions have sadly been increasingly loosing favor to Western music and musical instruments. This invention intends to help reverse this trend by...
7507891 Fiber Bragg grating tuner  
The present invention relates an instrument tuner possessing a fiber optic with a prewritten fiber Bragg grating. The tuner is suitable for providing more accurate instrument tuning, capable of not...
7504577 Music instrument system and methods  
A system and methods which allow even a novice performer to easily play music which is not disharmonious and which is pleasing to the performer and his or her audience. The music is preferably...
7501570 Electric wind instrument and key detection structure thereof  
Wind instrument includes a tubular body having a plurality of tone holes, and a plurality of keys capable of opening and closing the tone holes. Via a retaining member, detector units are provided...
7498505 Storage medium storing breath blowing determining program, breath blowing determining apparatus, breath blowing determining method, storage medium storing game program, game apparatus, and game control method  
A game apparatus includes an operating switch and a microphone. A player operates a player object through intuition by the operating switch or inputting a sound. The number of zero crossings...
7488887 Percussion-instrument pickup and electric percussion instrument  
An attachment part is disposed on a part of the edge of a resonance plate, which is made of a metal containing copper, and a weight is attached to the resonance plate at a predetermined distance...
7476798 Combined jack and coaxial battery-access cover for a stringed musical instrument  
For battery-operated guitars and other stringed musical instruments, a coaxial battery-access cover cap mounts an audio phone jack that delivers the instrument's audio output. For battery access,...
7476796 Image controlling apparatus capable of controlling reproduction of image data in accordance with event  
In an image controlling apparatus, an image data input from an image reproducing device 14 to a motion picture recording unit 71 is stored in a RAM 72 by making the image data corresponding...
7470852 Tone generator control apparatus and program for electronic wind instrument  
Flow velocity sensor and a length sensor are provided on or near an edge of the lip plate which the air jet from the embouchure hole impinges against. Jet flow velocity Ue at the edge and a...
7468483 Electronic percussion instrument and displacement detection apparatus  
An electronic percussion instrument with a single cymbal and a displacement detection apparatus that detects the displacement of an electronic cymbal. The electronic percussion instrument is...
7465869 Membranes for use with capacitive electric vibration transducers in musical instruments  
Membranes for use with capacitive electric musical instrument vibration transducers comprise an acoustically vibrating surface, a vibrating variable capacitor plate made from an electrically...
7459626 Apparatus and method for detecting displacement of a movable member of an electronic musical instrument  
An apparatus for detecting the displacement of a movable member of an electronic musical instrument. The apparatus has superior mechanical durability compared to displacement sensors of the past...
7453040 Active bridge for stringed musical instruments  
A musical instrument may include a musical instrument body, a vibrating element associated with the musical instrument body for producing musical sounds, a transducer coupled to a portion of the...
7446254 Percussion instrument using touch switch  
Percussion instrument using touch switch. Electric current flows by touching conducting pad with conducting stick. The microcontroller in main portion detects the said electronic current and...
7446251 Musical accessory having tuner and/or metronome and having power generation function  
Disclosed is a musical accessory, equipped with a tuner for stringed instruments and/or a metronome, capable of generating power by itself, which is convenient to use. In an aspect, the musical...
7435895 Automatic playing system used for musical instruments and computer program used therein for self-teaching  
An automatic playing system is independent of acoustic pianos, and is designed to perform music tunes expressed by sets of MIDI music data codes on the acoustic pianos; since the acoustic pianos...
7435891 Method and system for generating musical variations directed to particular skill-levels  
Various embodiments are directed to an automated method and system component for generating variations of one or more musical selections directed to particular students or to particular...
7432428 Electronic keyboard musical instrument  
An electronic keyboard musical instrument capable of performing delicate sound board vibration control based on outputs generated individually for respective ones of transducers, thereby realizing...
7429698 Acoustic practice percussion instrument and practice kit  
An acoustic percussion instrument and percussion set containing the instrument. The instrument includes a hollow cylindrical shell having a first end and a second end and an inside cylindrical...
7427711 Particle based touch interaction for the creation of media streams  
Methods and apparatus for manipulating physical objects to produce sounds that are correlated with the feel of the objects being manipulated. Example devices called the PebbleBox, CrumbleBag and...
7427710 Pickup apparatus  
A pickup apparatus for independently detecting the vibrations of each of a plurality of strings, and an electronic stringed instrument utilizing the pickup apparatus. The pickup apparatus minimizes...
7427705 Guitar pick recorder and playback device  
The invention disclosed herein comprises a guitar pick with a built-in recorder and playback device. The invention allows guitarists to record an audio sample into the recorder, then play it back...
7408109 Capacitive electric musical instrument vibration transducer  
A capacitive electric musical instrument vibration transducer contains one or more parallel plate variable capacitors. Each variable capacitor contains one vibrating variable capacitor plate, an...
7390959 Tone control device and program for electronic wind instrument  
A tone control device applied to an electronic wind instrument realizes an octave-changeover-blowing technique in which the same note is produced with different octaves respectively by use of the...
7390955 Metronome with wireless transducer  
A metronome for use by a musician or group of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing an electrical signal according to a desired timing scheme and one or more transducers in...
7385134 Wind musical instrument having pads for closing tone holes with mechanical assistance and supporting system used therein  
A saxophone has a complicated key mechanism for selectively closing and opening tone holes, and fingering on touch buttons and keys is not easy for children, handicapped persons and old players; a...
7381885 Electronic percussion instrument and percussion tone control program  
An electronic percussion instrument which is capable of accurately discriminating roll performance to thereby electronically produce percussion tones closer to tones produced by a natural...
7381884 Sound generating hand wear  
A glove includes a body that is positional about a user's hand. Speakers are embedded within the body and are coupled to the amp. Mechanisms are included for sensing external forces on each finger...
7378589 Portable rhythm sensible tool  
A sound determination unit previously divides sound into a low sound range for first sound, a middle sound range for second sound, and a high sound range for third sound by its frequency band. When...
7375276 Pick-up system and process  
A pick-up system is provided that can be suitably used irrespective of the type of the guitar by means of an arrangement of a plurality of pick-up coils that can appropriately conform to the...
7368654 Anti-resonant transducer  
The present invention is an device and method for providing an improved transducer for musical instruments. It an object of the present invention to provide a transducer which, because of its...
7361827 Transducer free from aged deterioration, musical instrument using the same and method used therein  
An electronic system, which serves as a recorder and an automatic player, is installed in an automatic player piano, and hammer sensors, which are implemented by photo couplers, report current...
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