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7601908 Programmable/semi-programmable pickup and transducer switching system  
A programmable/semi-programmable pickup and transducer switching system includes a control, a plurality of switches communicatively interconnected to the control, an encoder communicatively...
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...
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...
7482531 Integrated digital control for stringed musical instrument  
Embodiments of the present invention provide an integrated digital control apparatus ( 10 ) for a stringed musical instrument. In some embodiments, the apparatus ( 10 ) generally includes an input...
7473834 Electronic percussion instrument  
An electronic percussion instrument that allows for a performance sensation that is similar to that of an acoustic HiHat cymbal. A sliding mechanism of a top cymbal pad section and a bottom cymbal...
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...
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...
7399918 Digital guitar system  
A digital guitar system and method includes a digital guitar and a digital guitar interface device, and a method of converting a conventional guitar into a digital guitar. The guitar is adapted to...
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...
7332669 Acoustic piano with MIDI sensor and selective muting of groups of keys  
A high technology acoustic piano includes a piano body. A musical keyboard is mounted on the piano body. Keys are connected to the action for operating the hammers to strike strings. Strings...
7262359 Digital recording device for electric guitars and the like  
A digital recording device includes a housing that is engageable with a lower curvature of a guitar's frame. The housing includes an arcuate inner surface, an arcuate outer surface coextensively...
7220913 Breakout box for digital guitar  
A guitar interface device for a digital guitar system is adapted to receive digital signals, convert those signals into analog signals, and output the analog signals, so that the digital guitar...
7208673 Bi-directional switch apparatus with electric guitar applications  
A selector switch for musical instruments, such as electric guitars. is provided having a single, manually operated toggle member adapted to perform greater functionality. A selector switch is...
7115810 Programmable/semi-programmable pickup and transducer switching system  
A programmable/semi-programmable pickup and transducer switching system includes a control, a plurality of switches communicatively interconnected to the control, an encoder communicatively...
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...
7038123 Strumpad and string array processing for musical instruments  
A system for expanding generalizing aspects of an autoharp and making these functionalities beneficially available on other instruments. Strumpads comprising arrays of isolated touch switches, each...
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...
6388183 Virtual musical instruments with user selectable and controllable mapping of position input to sound output  
A method, and corresponding computer system, for mapping user positional data to output data based on user selection and customization input. The method includes displaying a number of mapping...
6384311 Guitar having tremolo device on each string thereof  
A stringed instrument comprises, in combination, a body with a neck extending forwardly therefrom The neck has a tuning portion mounted opposite the body which is adapted to receive one end of a...
5990411 Methods for utilizing switches on the back of the neck of a musical instrument  
Methods and apparatuses for utilizing switches on the back of the neck of a musical instrument are provided. Multiple switches may be positioned along the length of the back of the neck of a...
5973253 Electronic musical instrument for conducting an arpeggio performance of a stringed instrument  
An electronic musical instrument for conducting an arpeggio performance of a stringed instrument capable of readily producing a pattern for the arpeggio performance as one likes, and also of...
5929361 Woodwind-styled electronic musical instrument with bite indicator  
A woodwind-styled electronic musical instrument comprises an instrument body of an elongated rod shape provided with a plurality of manipulating note keys arranged thereon for designating musical...
5922982 Performance data generation apparatus for selectively outputting note on/off data based on performance operation mode  
A performance data generation apparatus generates performance data for controlling the tone generation condition of a tone to be generated based on a string vibration signal obtained from the...
5922985 Woodwind-styled electronic musical instrument  
A woodwind-styled electronic musical instrument comprises a plurality of manipulating note keys for designating note names in an octave of the tones to be produced, a plurality of manipulating...
5898121 Electrical musical instrument pickup system including switchable series-connected hum-canceling windings  
A pickup system for an electrical musical instrument having strings includes two pickup windings to respond to playing of the strings. A third winding is included. A switch connects any of the...
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...
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...
5668340 Wind instruments with electronic tubing length control  
A wind instrument is provided with electronic tubing control. The wind instrument has at least a pair of an acoustic sensor and an acoustic actuator in a straight pipe portion of a wind instrument...
5391833 Electric stringed instrument and programmable electrical connector therefor  
An electric guitar is provided with a connector for easily replacing or rewiring magnetic transducers or other components of an electric guitar. The connector of the subject invention includes a...
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...
5311806 Guitar pickup system for selecting from multiple tonalities  
A switching system for an electric guitar using bridge and fingerboard humbucker pickups and an intermediate pickup provides for ready selection of distinct groups of Gibson tonalities and Fender...
5288938 Method and apparatus for controlling electronic tone generation in accordance with a detected type of performance gesture  
A method and apparatus for controlling electronic tone generation determines a type of gesture used by a player to contact a performance surface provided with an array of pressure sensors. The...
5245130 Polyphonic breath controlled electronic musical instrument  
A polyphonic breath controlled electronic musical instrument includes a hand held breath sensor unit having a plurality of bidirectional air flow sensing passageways for detecting sucking or...
5218160 String instrument sound enhancing method and apparatus  
A sound enhancing apparatus for use with a string instrument has separate tone pick-ups for picking up the tones of individual strings and circuits for, determining the fundamental tones of these...
5214232 Electric stringed musical instrument equipped with detector optically detecting string vibrations  
An electric guitar has a plurality of strings stretched over a rigid body and a neck, and a vibration detecting unit embedded into the rigid body, and the vibration detecting unit has a plurality...
5153364 Operated position detecting apparatus and electronic musical instruments provided therewith  
A detecting device for detecting the positions where strings are operated, and an electronic musical instrument using the detecting device, such as an electronic stringed instrument or an...
5147969 Musical tone control apparatus  
The musical tone control apparatus detects a movement of a player, such as a holding, touching, beating, depressing, pulling, lifting up or down movement. Then, the musical tone control apparatus...
5140890 Guitar control system  
A guitar control system using multiple string processing channels for developing pitch and peak signals for a multiple of string vibrations. Pitch data is multiplexed into a microprocessor along...
5136918 Guitar pickup switching system for selecting between and within two standard tonalities  
A switching system for an electric guitar using bridge and fingerboard humbucker pickups and a single coil intermediate pickup wherein distinct groups of GIBSON tonality and FENDER tonality can be...
5136919 Guitar pickup and switching apparatus  
Stringed instrument pickup and active switching circuitry that provide improvements in pickup sound combination, hum rejection and overall electronic function. The circuit employs plural pickups, a...
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...
5117730 String type tone signal controlling device  
A tone signal controlling apparatus for an electronic musical instrument comprising a body having a string corresponding portion, a movable performance member, and a sensor for detecting the action...
5105711 Removably mountable effects device for an electric guitar  
A removably mountable multiple effects device for an electronic signal processor for an electric guitar having an output socket is disclosed which includes a selection panel for accessing and...
5065659 Apparatus for detecting the positions where strings are operated, and electronic musical instruments provided therewith  
A detecting device for detecting the positions where strings are operated, and an electronic musical instrument using the detecting device, such as an electronic stringed instrument of an...
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...
5024133 Electronic musical instrument with improved generation of wind instruments  
The purpose of the present invention is to offer an electronic musical instrument which can synthesize the sound of brass instruments with fidelity and furthermore in real time. In order to achieve...
5014589 Control apparatus for electronic musical instrument for generating musical tone having tone pitch corresponding to input waveform signal  
A pitch is extracted from an input waveform signal, and a musical tone having a corresponding tone pitch is generated. In this case, a signal intensity at the leading edge of the input waveform...
5010800 Electronic musical instrument capable of selecting between fret and fretless modes  
An electronic muscial instrument for use in a stringed instrument such as a guitar, a guitar synthesizer or a violin. Two modes can be selectively set by a mode setting operation conducted on a...
5010801 Electronic musical instrument with a tone parameter control function  
An electronic musical instrument according to the present invention is applicable to musical instruments such as electronic wind instruments, electronic rubbed string instruments and electronic...
5001960 Apparatus for controlling reproduction on pitch variation of an input waveform signal  
An input waveform signal representing, for example, a string oscillation is input to a pitch extraction circuit. The pitch extraction circuit extracts a pitch frequency from the input waveform...
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