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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...
7538269 Docking system for pickups on electric guitars  
A sliding mount for removable insertion of a module into a body of an instrument having longitudinal strings, the body defining a transverse cavity extending from a lateral edge. The sliding mount...
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...
7525039 Electronic bass drum  
An Electronic Bass Drum includes one or more loudspeakers, an internal amplifier system, an optional electronic drum module and control panel, an impact sensitive electronic kick pad, an attachment...
7504578 System and method for providing a musical instrument having a monitor therein  
A musical instrument, having a monitor therein, contains a musical instrument body having a body cavity therein, and the monitor having a front face and a back, where the monitor fits within the...
7498506 Foot volume pedal systems and methods  
A pedal system and method for a musical instrument includes a supporting pedestal operatively connected to a foot pedal such that the foot pedal is pivotal to allow a user to control a musical tone...
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,...
7473842 Electronic keyboard instrument  
An electronic keyboard instrument which enables an instrument frame to be shared by different types of electronic keyboard instruments, and facilitates separate mounting and removal of a keyboard...
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...
7465870 Illuminated heart-shaped guitar with strobe lights and a modified bridge  
A guitar having a heart-shaped body with red plexiglass covering the body's top and bottom includes a fiberglass or oak neck attached to a bridge mounted to the body, with the neck including a...
7465868 Frameless musical keyboard  
Embodiments of an electronic, frameless, musical keyboard with the ability to couple to other frameless musical keyboards are described. In one embodiment, a first musical keyboard section includes...
7435178 Tremolo bar input for a video game controller  
A video game controller and a method of operating the controller are provided. The controller includes: a guitar-shaped housing comprising a body portion and a neck portion; a console interface for...
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...
7408108 Multiple-paramenter instrument keyboard combining key-surface touch and key-displacement sensor arrays  
An invention extending functionality and applications of traditional music keyboards. Individual musical keyboard keys may have individual key displacement sensors measuring key travel. Individual...
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...
7351905 Apparatus for powering an electronic musical instrument  
Apparatus for providing electrical power to signal conditioner circuitry inside a musical instrument having a signal output jack mounted thereon to carry a conditioned music signal via a signal...
7345235 Keyboard musical instrument having keys equipped with balancers biting into keys and method for securing balancers to keys  
Keys of an acoustic piano require balancers for cancellation of a part of self weight of the action units/hammers; however, the balancers are liable to be dropped off due to the aged deterioration...
7332670 Automatic player exactly bringing pedal to half point, musical instrument equipped therewith and method used therein  
An automatic player reenacts a music passage on an acoustic piano without any fingering of a human player; solenoid-operated key actuators and a solenoid-operated pedal actuator is provided for the...
7326849 Foot-operated docking station for electronic modules used with musical instruments  
A modular docking station receives a variety of electronic modules, such as a tuner, effects processor, signal conditioner, signal distributor, and signal converter, for use with a musical...
7307208 High-fidelity automatic player musical instrument, automatic player used therein and method employed therein  
An automatic player piano includes key sensors, solenoid-operated key actuators and a controller, which form a servo-control loop, and the key motion is reproduced under the control of the...
7304233 Apparatus and method for installing unit on a stringed musical instrument  
An apparatus for mounting a control unit on a stringed musical instrument. The apparatus is designed such that the control unit can be easily mounted on and removed from the stringed musical...
7268289 Musical instrument performing artistic visual expression and controlling system incorporated therein  
A set of formation data codes, which includes action event codes and duration codes, is loaded in an automatic player piano, and a controller interprets the action event codes for driving the...
7256343 Interchangable pre amp module for an electronic string instrument  
An interchangeable modular insert for a electric stringed instrument is mounted in a cavity cut into the rear of the instrument. The rear insertion module provides rapid exchange of electronic...
7256342 Sound pickup device for percussion instrument  
A sound pickup device, which is arranged in proximity to a percussion instrument (e.g., a bass drum), comprises a diaphragm stretched under tension over an opening of a shell having a cylindrical...
7253349 Engineers piano with bisymmetrical manuals and accompanying musical notation system  
A 2 manual musical keyboard with the pitch progression on one of the manuals reversed. The keys on these manuals are segregated into 2 groups of 2 different heights in the same way as a standard...
7247789 Soundhole accessible musical instrument control platform  
A soundhole accessible musical instrument control platform mounted inside the body of a musical instrument requires no physical alterations to the instrument, allowing the user convenient and...
7238877 Musical instrument string ground circuit breaker  
The present invention is directed to a stringed, musical instrument where the instrument strings are grounded by a string ground circuit, and wherein the string ground circuit includes a circuit...
7202409 Musical instrument automatically performing music passage through hybrid feedback control loop containing plural sorts of sensors  
An automatic player piano includes keys driven for the angular motion through a hybrid feedback control loop; a controller, a key position sensor, a plunger velocity sensor and a solenoid-operated...
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...
7151216 Solid body electric guitar having the capability of producing acoustic guitar sound  
The invention is an electric guitar. In detail, the guitar includes a solid body and neck portions. A pressure sensor is mounted at the junction of the body and neck, the pressure sensor having the...
7112732 Electric stringed musical instrument having detachable frame  
An electric double-bass is broken down into a trunk, a detachable framework assembled with the trunk, coupling units provided between the trunk and the detachable framework, accessory parts,...
7105731 Low noise vibrating string transducer  
An apparatus and method for amplifying low amplitude vibrations from stringed instruments, and in particular guitars while reducing Gaussian and 60 Hz hum noise from the signal. In particular, the...
7102073 Guitar combo  
A combination stringed musical instrument for providing different stringed instruments on a common housing. The instrument includes a housing, neck portion, head portion, first plurality of string...
7084341 Sound pickup system for acoustic string instruments  
A sound pickup system for string instruments includes a chinrest and/or tailpiece connected to a first audio interface device—e.g. a piezoelectric transducer-on the instrument's bridge. A second...
7078611 Keyboard instrument  
An instrument main body has a keyboard including a plurality of keys and sound generators (for example, speakers) at a rear of the keyboard. At the rear of the keyboard, an upper surface cover...
7038117 Electronic percussion instrument and vibration detection apparatus  
An electronic percussion instrument includes a vibration detection apparatus having a simplified frame structure that increases the uniformity of its rim shot strike sensitivity distribution. The...
7015390 Triad pickup  
A removable and portable single pickup unit for stringed instruments such as guitars, and the like. The unit can be mounted inside of a sound hole of an acoustic guitar without damaging the guitar....
7002070 Electronic piano  
An electronic piano is provided in which activation of a keyboard ( 7 ) and foot pedals ( 8 ) causes sound to be generated and output via a pair of conventional cone loudspeakers ( 210–212 ) each...
6916980 Acoustic control system for electronic musical instrument  
An acoustic control system for an electronic musical instrument, which can obtain optimal acoustic characteristics irrespective of whether or not a low range speaker is attached to a body thereof....
6835887 Methods and apparatus for providing an interactive musical game  
An interactive electronic drum system and training techniques suitable for use in a coin-operated environment such as an arcade are described. Electronic drum pads, audio speakers, a visual...
6800800 Electric guitar pickguard assembly  
An improved electric guitar and pickguard assembly are provided. The pickguard assembly includes a traditionally shaped deck plate for mounting to the body of an electric guitar. The deck plate is...
6781050 Electric guitar circuit control and switching module  
An interchangeable passive electric guitar circuit control and switching module is integrated into an existing guitar to dynamically alter the electronic relationship of the guitar's electric...
6737572 Voice controlled electronic musical instrument  
The invention is an electronic, voice-controlled musical instrument. It is in essence an electronic kazoo. The player hums into the mouthpiece, and the device imitates the sound of a musical...
6703552 Continuous music keyboard  
An apparatus and method for continuous keyboard system. The Continuous Music Keyboard resembles a traditional keyboard in that it is approximately the same size and is played with ten fingers. It...
6664461 Electric stringed musical instrument having detachable frame  
An electric double-bass is broken down into a trunk, a detachable framework assembled with the trunk, coupling units provided between the trunk and the detachable framework, accessory parts,...
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....
6576826 Tone generation apparatus and method for simulating tone effect imparted by damper pedal  
While a normal tone of a designated pitch is being generated in response to key depression or other performance operation on a keyboard or other performance operation device, the tone is controlled...
6541690 Scratch effect controller  
There is provided a rotary encoder having the physical characteristics of a vinyl phonograph disc on a properly prepared turntable. A disc jockey (DJ) may intuitively use this encoder in a...
6515214 Pickup unit incorporated in stringed instrument for converting vibrations of string to electric signal in good fidelity  
A pickup unit is used for converting vibrations of strings to electric signals for producing electric tones at good loudness, and the pickup unit includes a bridge assembly stationary to a body of...
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