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        <title>Free Patents Online: Music</title>
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        <description>USPTO Class 084 Music</description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kernel-mode audio processing modules]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Multiple kernel-mode audio processing modules or filters are combined to form a module or filter graph. The graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data (e.g., MIDI data) by avoiding transfers of the audio data to user-mode applications for processing. A variety of different audio processing modules can be used to provide various pieces of functionality when processing audio data.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Onboard music reproduction apparatus and music information distribution system]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./7633004.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In a music reproduction apparatus designed for a listener to enjoy music while experiencing variations in vehicle status, plural types of phrases, which differ from each other, are assigned to plural tracks and are reproduced in accordance with reproduction parameters, which are controlled in response to vehicle status information. It is possible to control the setup values of reproduction parameters suiting vehicle statuses in response to travel environments. In addition, it is possible to synchronize the reproduction start timing of a music reproduction unit corresponding to one measure being reproduced by a first track with the reproduction start timing of a music reproduction unit corresponding to plural measures being reproduced by a second track. In a music information distribution system, a server stores music files including reproduction parameters suiting vehicle statuses and travel environments, so that the music reproduction apparatus reads them so as to reproduce corresponding musical tunes.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Performance control apparatus and program therefor]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A performance control apparatus that prevents erroneous key depressions from disturbing musical performance and allow an inexperience player to play at ease. A performance operator is adapted to generate performance operation information in response to performance operations by a user, the performance operation information including information indicative of performing timing in automatic performance. A storage device is adapted to store data of a music piece comprising sequence data of note information for individual musical tones. A performance control device is adapted to, each time the performance operation information is generated, calculate tempo of automatic performance on the basis of the difference in generation time between the present performance operation information and the previous performance operation information, and to read out the data of the music piece from the storage device with the tempo; wherein the performance control device is adapted to exclude currently the present performance operation information from calculation of the tempo if the difference in generation time is less than a predetermined threshold.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Piano key assembly]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A piano key assembly for a pianoforte in which weights are mounted on a keystick to have a center of gravity between a first point along said keystick halfway between the pivot point of the keystick and the end struck by the pianist and a second point halfway between the pivot point and the first point and wherein all the weights are located relative to the keystick between the pivot point and the first point. Optionally, holes are made in the keystick between the first point and the end struck by the pianist.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Keyboard-type tone plate percussion instrument]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./7633001.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A keyboard-type tone plate percussion instrument that permits a player to make an operation to select percussion unit's striking a tone plate with or without intervention of a displacement member between percussion units and tone plates, making it possible to change, with a simple construction, tone color produced by a struck tone plate. In response to key depression, a corresponding percussion unit ( 24 ) is driven. The percussion unit directly strikes a corresponding tone plate when a displacement member ( 78, 178, 278, 378 ), which is different in material and hardness from percussion units, is extracted from between keys and the percussion units, but indirectly strikes the tone plate via the displacement member when the displacement member is interposed therebetween.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[U-joint for double pedal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A drum pedal assembly for connecting a first pedal to a support holding a beater arm may include a telescoping transmission shaft having yokes attached to shaft ends, yokes having bosses, universal joints rotatably attached to bosses and using trunnions, second yokes having bosses attached to universal joints using additional trunnions. The second yokes may rotatably attach a drive assembly rotatably attached to first pedal and an attachment arbor attached to beater arm to facilitate rotation of beater arm when first pedal is depressed. Configuration of assembly, including that of universal joints, may help reduce backlash or vibration in assembly.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Musical instrument case]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A musical instrument case comprising a body which defines an outer and inner surface, first and second members, and a support layer affixed within the inner surface of the body and a microfiber layer affixed to the support layer.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Assembly for purging liquid from a lip vibrated aerophonic instrument]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An assembly for purging liquid from a lip vibrated aerophonic musical instrument having a hollow bore, the assembly including a first outlet port, the first outlet port opening the hollow bore of the lip vibrated aerophonic musical instrument; the assembly further having a housing having an inner wall and an inlet end; the assembly further having a second outlet port, the second outlet port opening the housing; the assembly further having a heat fusion weld attaching the housing to the lip vibrated aerophonic musical instrument, the weld positioning the housing's inlet end at the first outlet port; the assembly further including liquid transmissive materials; and the assembly further including an apertured screw cap operatively to an outlet end of the housing, the apertured screw cap being adapted for alternatively retaining the liquid transmissive material within the housing and releasing the liquid transmissive material from the housing.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Spring-biased tuning machine]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A tuning machine for a musical instrument includes a base configured to engage a headstock of the musical instrument, an actuator rotatably connected to the base, a shaft rotatably connected to the base, the shaft providing a first aperture sized to receive a string of the musical instrument, the shaft being connected to the actuator such that actuation of the actuator causes rotation of the shaft about an axis of the shaft, a clamp member movably connected to the shaft and configured to engage the string, and a bias member connected to the clamp member and the shaft to bias the clamp member toward a closed position to engage the string when received by the shaft, where the clamp member and the shaft cooperate to inhibit removal of the string received by the shaft with the clamp member engaging the string.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Piano hammer]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A piano hammer comprises an elongate hammerhead having a nose portion defining side surfaces and a felt covering extending about the nose portion with tail portions of the felt covering affixed to the side surfaces. The felt covering defines a substantially elliptical peripheral surface from a top region for striking a piano string to front and back regions. An elongated single or dual layer strip is arranged on the peripheral surface of the felt covering in the top region, extending along the front and back regions to points beyond the hammer equator. The layers of this strip or “voicing tape” are made of a synthetic non-woven fabric material, preferably of the type sold under the registered trademark Pellon.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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