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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...
7385135 Electronic percussion instrumental system and percussion detecting apparatus therein  
An object of the present invention is to provide a percussion detecting apparatus, which is excellent in percussion feeling, and the percussion sounds of which are very small, in electronic...
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...
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...
7179985 Hybrid electric/acoustic percussion instrument  
A hybrid electric/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...
7112739 Electronic percussion instrument  
An electronic percussion instrument modifies the effect applied to note generated in response to a strike based on the intensity of the strike. A plurality of patches are stored in the waveform...
7096186 Device and method for analyzing and representing sound signals in the musical notation  
Sound signal is received which contains sound characteristics to be represented in musical notation. The characteristics, such as a volume level of the sound signal, are extracted out of the...
7030305 Electronic synthesized steelpan drum  
An electronic synthesized steelpan drum resembling a conventional steelpan drum and featuring the same shallow cylindrical shape with a sunken concave playing surface. The steelpan drum includes a...
6846980 Electronic-acoustic guitar with enhanced sound, chord and melody creation system  
An electronic battery operated and self contained acoustic guitar allowing playing back high quality prerecorded notes through its own soundboard electromechanically activated by a piezoelectric...
6809249 Self-aligning ultrasonic displacement sensor system, apparatus and method for detecting surface vibrations  
Ultrasonic transducing elements ( 11, 12 ) are used to measure vibrations of a nearby musical drumhead or other vibrating surface ( 13 ). A first ultrasonic transducer ( 11 ) emits an ultrasonic...
6576829 Electronic percussion instrument with transducer soldering connection protection  
An electronic percussion instrument which includes a housing suspended from the bottom end of the barrel which houses the percussive impact sensor. The percussive impact sensor includes transducer....
6525259 Cadence-providing conga drum practice pad assembly and method  
A Cadence-Providing Drum Practice Pad Assembly and Method is disclosed. The preferred assembly combines a practice pad and a cadence generating device in the same body. In other embodiments, the...
6399869 Cadence-providing drum practice pad assembly and method  
A Cadence-Providing Drum Practice Pad Assembly and Method is disclosed. The preferred assembly combines a practice pad and a cadence generating device in the same body. In other embodiments, the...
D455775 Electronic high-hat cymbal  
D455453 Electronic cymbal  
6320113 System for enhancing the sound of an acoustic instrument  
A system is disclosed that provides sound control for an acoustic musical instrument. Typical to all acoustic instruments, the instruments have a structure or housing that defines a vented acoustic...
6191350 Electronic stringed musical instrument  
A guitar is disclosed which is adapted for use with a battery power source and having a CPU and a memory including preprogrammed chord tables and melody tables. The guitar provides electro...
6075197 Apparatus and method for providing interactive drum lessons  
An interactive drum set includes a storage device for storing data representing sounds of a plurality of background music styles, sounds of a plurality of drum beat sequences, and sounds of a...
6034316 Controls for musical instrument sustainers  
A sustainer is provided for prolonging the vibrations of strings of a stringed musical instrument. The instrument has at least one magnetic pickup means responsive to the vibrations of the strings....
5942709 Audio processor detecting pitch and envelope of acoustic signal adaptively to frequency  
An audio apparatus extracts information of a musical performance from an acoustic signal having a frequency and an amplitude, which time-vary during the musical performance. In the audio apparatus,...
5932827 Sustainer for a musical instrument  
The invention relates to the provision of a sustainer that is compatible with single coil pickups and stacked, single coil pickups. In this regard, feedback is substantially eliminated by...
5920026 Electronic percussion instrument with a net-like material to minimize noise  
An object of the present invention is to provide a percussion detecting apparatus, which is excellent in percussion feeling, and the percussion sounds of which are very small, in electric...
5915289 Electronic cymbal apparatus  
An electronic cymbal apparatus which significantly shortens the vibratory response of the prolonged resonating acoustical tone produced by the percussive impact on an electrically conductive...
5856628 Table-type electronic percussion instrument  
A table-type electronic percussion instrument is constructed by a table board, legs, pads as well as a musical tone generation circuit and a speaker system. Herein, the table board has a specific...
5837915 Electronic drum having flat sound producing characteristics  
An electronic drum has a drum pad beaten with sticks and a pad structure, a sensor board attached to the pad structure and an piezoelectric element attached to the sensor board form in combination...
5801320 Foldable percussion synthesizer unit  
A foldable electronic percussion synthesizer assembly is disclosed that includes two fixed drum heads that are permanently mounted on the synthesizer housing and two movable drum heads that are...
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...
5675656 Power amplifier with clipping level control  
In a power amplifier, a control device employing a dual ganged potentiometer is connected in the feedback circuits of successive amplifier stages to increase the gain of the front end stage while...
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...
5585588 Electric stringed instrument having a device for sustaining the vibration of a string and an electromagnetic driver for the device  
A stringed instrument having a device for sustaining the vibration of a string; the stringed instrument being a musical instrument having plural strings with the mass and tension of each string...
5449858 Guitar feedback device and method  
A sound effects device is used with a guitar having an electromagnetic pickup for inducing feedback into an original signal source for creating a unique musical sound. The device comprises a coil...
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...
5262585 Electronic cymbal system  
The cymbal system comprises a cymbal member mountable on a cymbal stand, the cymbal member having a playing feel approximating that of a conventional cymbal. A transducer is affixed to a surface of...
5233123 Musical instruments equipped with sustainers  
A musical instrument such as a guitar including a structure such as a guitar body and a vibratory element such as one or more guitar strings mounted to the structure is provided with a pickup for...
5223658 Electronic keyboard instrument with pad  
An electronic keyboard instrument having a performance pad, a detector, a memory, and a sound system. The detector detects a key touch of a key depressed to assign a percussion tone to the pad. The...
5189240 Breath controller for musical instruments  
A breath controller for musical instruments includes a mouth piece for blowing the air into an air chamber. Blowing the air makes an air pressure increase in the air chamber, thus an elastic member...
5147970 Electronic musical instrument for generating musical tones on the basis of characteristics of input waveform signal  
A vibration of a string is picked up by a pickup to be converted to an electric signal. A pitch extracting circuit obtains pitch data expressing a pitch or a duration of the string vibration from...
5142961 Method and apparatus for stimulation of acoustic musical instruments  
Method for storage, transcription, manipulation and reproduction of music on system-controlled musical instruments which faithfully reproduces the characteristics of acoustic musical instruments....
5121669 Electronic stringed instrument  
An electronic stringed instrument employs a plurality of sensors or monitors for instrument performance. Preferred sensors or monitors include a detector for detecting that a string of the...
5062341 Portable drum sound simulator generating multiple sounds  
A portable drum sound simulator is provided which includes an electronic drum sound generating means capable of generating a plurality of drum-like sound outputs and energizable in response to...
5048391 Electronic musical instrument for generating musical tones on the basis of characteristics of input waveform signal  
A vibration of a string is picked up by a pickup to be converted to an electric signal. A pitch extracting circuit obtains pitch data expressing a pitch or a duration of the string vibration from...
4995294 Electronic percussion instrument  
A striker designed to strike or be swung for playing music is provided with a musical sound-initiating command signal-generating device including switching members. When the striker strikes or...
4909117 Portable drum sound simulator  
A portable drum sound simulator, especially suitable for carrying by the user, includes a pair of drumsticks containing electrical switches which are actuated by change in motion. The switches are...
4852444 Electro-mechanical transducer which couples positive acoustic feedback into an electric amplified guitar body for the purpose of sustaining played notes  
A transducer for a musical instrument through which vibrations can be fed back to the instrument so that notes played on the instrument can be sustained. The transducer comprises a bracket for...
4796503 Amplification circuit for electronic tone generator  
A shaped waveform tone generator circuit is contained entirely in an integrated circuit and has a pair of push-pull amplifiers for driving a piezo-buzzer. The output from an RC network controls...
4781097 Electronic drum instrument  
A plurality of drum pads are each provided with a respective piezoelectric pick-up. The output of each piezoelectric pick-up is fed to a corresponding envelope-extracting circuit. The envelope...
4697491 Electric feedback guitar  
An electric stringed instrument such as a guitar having a sound reproducing element on the top of the neck for feeding the tones of the strings back into the guitar. (A sound reproducing element...
4649785 Musical timbre modification method  
For amplified musical instruments such as electric guitars, this method of extending the range of timbre variation available from a "wah" type of pedal controlled sound modification effect provides...
4484508 Electroacoustic musical instrument with controlled fade-out  
A musical instrument with a plurality of vibratile tone generators, whose oscillations are converted into alternating currents by electroacoustic transducers, is provided with a control circuit...
4382251 Envelope control device for piezoelectric buzzer  
An envelope control device for the piezoelectric buzzer of the invention applies voltages changing with time to both surfaces of a sound generator for push-pull operation for generating an electric...
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