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7605325 |
Electric stringed instrument
A display device that displays a selected pickup is provided in a volume control that adjusts the volume of a performance. The display device is formed by a light guiding body, and by two types of...
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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...
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7602927 |
Guitar amplifier with channel-dedicated power switching
An amplifier for electric guitar including a plurality of foot switch selectable preamplifier channels which can be set to provide differing sonic characteristics, and also including a power...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7390960 |
Electronic signal processor
An electronic signal processor for processing signals includes a complex first filter, one or more gain stages and a second filter. The first filter is characterized by a frequency response curve...
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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...
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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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7339107 |
Method of and system for controlling audio effects
An audio effects control for and method of controlling the application of special audio effects applied to an audio signal, comprises a sensor configured to sense movement associated with the...
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7297863 |
Electro-acoustically amplified drum mixer
An electro-acoustically amplified drum mixer or sound level adjuster for amplifying a hollow drum shell having at least one open end, a drumhead spaced from the open end of the said drum shell and...
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7294778 |
Percussion instrument, system, and method with closing position detection
An electronic percussion instrument includes input means, correction information storage means, and musical tone generation means. The input means allows for vibration information, which expresses...
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7276657 |
Maximized sound pickup switching apparatus for a string instrument having a plurality of sound pickups
A sound pickup switching system for an electric string instrument which has at least two pickup coils and a multi-position selector switch, includes a switch matrix with a plurality of switches in...
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7268290 |
Tactile metronome
A tactile metronome for use by a musician generally includes a signal generator for producing an electrical signal according to a desired timing scheme and a tactile transducer in electrical...
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7102072 |
Apparatus and computer program for detecting and correcting tone pitches
The tone pitch of a given tone waveform is detected by forming an envelope waveform of the given tone waveform, holding the level of the envelope waveform at each of the zero cross times of the...
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7087828 |
Instrument and method for generating sounds
An innovative music instrument ( 101 ) comprises at least one tunable string ( 102 ), a holding device ( 106 ) for holding the at least one string ( 102 ), an electrically or electronically...
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7078610 |
Electronic percussion instrument
An electronic percussion instrument samples an input waveform. An unused waveform number may be automatically assigned to the sampled waveform upon sampling or when a user-specified waveform number...
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7060888 |
Movable stringed instrument pickup system
A pivoting electromagnetic pickup device is provided. The invention generally is comprised of an elongated support structure, an electromagnetic pickup, a pivoting means, and an angular position...
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7038122 |
Musical tone generation control system, musical tone generation control method, musical tone generation control apparatus, operating terminal, musical tone generation control program and storage medium storing musical tone generation control program
There is provided a musical tone generation control system which enables the user to obtain a feeling of operation as well as to obtain a feeling of satisfaction as if he or she were aggressively...
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6881892 |
Method of configurating acoustic correction filter for stringed instrument
A method is provided for designing an acoustic correction filter applicable to a stringed instrument, which is composed of a string member operable to undergo a vibration, a support member for...
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6852919 |
Extensions and generalizations of the pedal steel guitar
Extensions and generalizations are made to the pedal steel guitar. Separate transducers provided to each string permit fixed or variable pitch and timbre modifications determined by stored program...
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6696632 |
Electric stringed musical instrument having frame body and percussion unit
An electric percussion unit and small-sized speakers are detachably connected to a trunk of an electric frame guitar, and a circuit board, on which electric circuit components required for...
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6538189 |
Wind controller for music synthesizers
A wind controller is disclosed which provides glitch-free playing of the instrument by using key position sensors which produce tristate logic signals indicating released, held, or transition...
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6476310 |
Musical wind instrument and method for controlling such an instrument
A musical wind instrument includes a mouthpiece through which the user blows air and a sensor is deployed to produce an output which varies as a function of how hard the user blows through the...
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6448488 |
Measurement and processing of stringed acoustic instrument signals
A system and a method of measuring, decomposing, processing and uniquely recombining forces and vibrations acting on stringed musical instruments (SMI). The system utilizes a digital signal...
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6288320 |
Electric musical instrument
An electric musical instrument is provided, which enables rich and diverse expressions to be achieved in musical performance. A driving member drives a tone generating source. A driving member-side...
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6222522 |
Baton and X, Y, Z, position sensor
A position sensor is used in conjunction with one or more batons, each baton having a transmitter that transmits a distinct radio frequency signal at a position in space. The position sensor...
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6222110 |
Simulated tone stack for electric guitar
A combination of limited data, 3D linear interpolation, and a unique simulation circuit are combined to provide a programmable tone control that can simulate any desired tone stack. In accordance...
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6031176 |
Electronic percussion instrument with tone color controlling system using a pad sensor and a rim sensor
An electronic percussion instrument includes a pad section and a rim section provided about the pad section. A pad sensor is provided in the pad section to output a signal in response to a force...
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6005181 |
Electronic musical instrument
A control instrument for a system for generating acoustic output which includes a processor for receiving user input signals and control the acoustic output in response to the user input signals....
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5990408 |
Electronic stringed instrument using phase difference to control tone generation
An electronic stringed instrument having a first pickup device and a second pickup device. When any one of the strings is picked at a picking position between the first pickup device and the second...
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5977474 |
Continuously variable circuit for producing an output signal having a continuously variable amount of clean and distorted signals
An amplifier circuit for providing a combined clean and dirty output signal from an electric guitar. The circuit comprises a panning pedal that has two potentiometers attached thereto so that...
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5866834 |
Digitally controlled analog electric stringed musical instrument and apparatus
An electric stringed musical instrument that produces and processes electric signals through an analog circuit has the analog circuit digitally controlled. The digital control is preferably such...
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5780760 |
Guitar pickup switching system for three-pickup guitar
A guitar pickup switching system has a single-coil treble pickup, a single-coil middle pickup, and a single-coil rhythm pickup for an electric guitar. A switch arrangement allows the guitar player...
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5723804 |
Electric monophonic/stereophonic stringed resonator instrument
An electric monophonic/stereophonic stringed resonator instrument includes a body, a resonator assembly mounted on the guitar body, and strings connected to the body. A pickup responsive to string...
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5717155 |
Synthesizer detecting pitch and plucking point of stringed instrument to generate tones
In an electronic musical apparatus having an acoustic instrument manually operable to commence an acoustic vibration and a tone generator responsive to the acoustic vibration to generate a musical...
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5633473 |
Electronic musical instrument
The vibration of a vibratory element, caused by applying thereto a shock, is detected by a vibration sensor and provided as an electric shock signal to a resonance circuit. The resonance...
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5557058 |
Signal blender for three or more musical instrument pickups
A signal blender that combines the pickup signals generated by three pickups for a musical instrument (e.g., a guitar) in plural combinations and multiple amplitudes to develop a blend signal. The...
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5508474 |
Electromagnetic pickup for an electric stringed instrument
An electromagnetic pickup for an electric stringed instrument has, two parallel permeability plates placed perpendicular to strings; a permanent magnet provided between the two permeability plates...
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5378850 |
Electric stringed instrument having an arrangement for adjusting the generation of magnetic feedback
An electric stringed instrument comprises an electromagnetic pickup having a permanent magnet and a string signal detecting coil wound around the permanent magnet and magnetically combined with the...
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5321201 |
Multisound lap steel guitar
A lap steel guitar having two hidden pickups at least halfway along the neck of the guitar underneath the fret board and electrically connected to a conventional fret board circuit so that, by a...
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5300729 |
Electronic musical instrument having operator with selective control function
An electronic musical instrument is provided with an operator and a function switch, adding to a controller having a shape similar to that of woodwind instrument and a tone source unit. The...
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5293311 |
Apparatus and a method for changing a resolution value of input musical data
An input data processor selects a value indicated by change border data, and uses this value as a reference value for determining whether a predetermined process is effected, and to change the...
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5290964 |
Musical tone control apparatus using a detector
A musical tone control apparatus controls a musical tone corresponding to a movement itself of an object and the like which is detected by a detector Such detector detects also a moving speed, a...
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