Music inventions 04/06

20060086231 - Pick attachment device: A resilient band holds a pick for a stringed musical instrument securely in contact with a thumb or finger of the instrumentalist. In one aspect this device appears as a ring that has been slit along its center line over a portion of its circumference, the slit then being separated...

20060086232 - Guitar strap and method of making guitar strap: A cushioning guitar strap reduces unit load on the shoulder by the use of a relatively wide cushioning pad formed with a soft flexible foam layer to conform to a user's shoulder under the load of a guitar, with a flexible film, which is dimensionally stable in use under the...

20060086233 - Cymbal crash apparatus: A percussion instrument includes a stand, an operating rod defining a first axis, a foot pedal operably associated with the operating rod for permitting movement of the operating rod along the first axis, and a pair of movable arms coupled to the stand. A first rigid vibrator is disposed on...

20060086234 - Musical notation system: An integrated system and software package for creating and performing a musical score including a user interface that enables a user to enter and display the musical score, a database that stores a data structure which supports graphical symbols for musical characters in the musical score and performance generation data...

20060086235 - Electronic musical apparatus system, server-side electronic musical apparatus and client-side electronic musical apparatus: A plurality of client-side electronic musical apparatuses 10 are connected to a server-side electronic musical apparatus 30 through a communications network 50. Each of the client-side electronic musical apparatuses 10, which is provided with an ID, attaches the ID to a signal representative of operation of performance operators 11 and...

20060086236 - Music selection device and method therefor: A method of providing dance music includes receiving a request of a dance type or tempo from a user interface. A song is selected conforming to the request. A device having a user interface, memory, processor, and audio signal generator provides dance music conforming to tempo or dance type requests....

20060086237 - Unnatural reverberation: An electronic reverberation system employs a processor to produce a plurality of delays samples that are added to a direct signal to produce reverberant sound. The disclosed system generates or employs a list of gain value pairs that are produced based on control settings or are provided as fixed coefficients....

20060086238 - Apparatus and method for reproducing midi file: An apparatus and a method for reproducing a MIDI file are provided. In the apparatus and the method, a point that limits reproduction of a MIDI file is determined and reproduction of the MIDI file is forcibly terminated at the determined reproduction limitation point when the MIDI file is reproduced....

20060086239 - Apparatus and method for reproducing midi file: Apparatus and method for reproducing a MIDI file are provided. In the apparatus and the method, notes and note reproduction times are extracted from the MIDI file and a difference between a start point and an end point in a Loop section of relevant sound source data according to the...

20060081109 - Guitar pick: A musician's plectrum having a top and a bottom surface, a first groove on the top surface which runs perpendicular to an axis of symmetry and positioned the user's thumb perpendicular to the axis of symmetry, and a second groove on the bottom surface which runs parallel to the axis...

20060081112 - Device(s) for and method(s) of adapting and retaining straps: An adapting device for attaching a strap, with an aperture, loop, ring or similar opening at or near the end, to a combination end pin/electrical output jack or other attachment point on the object, and a retaining device to secure the strap and adapting device thereon. The adapting device being...

20060081110 - One piece playing position guitar hanger: One piece guitar hanger apparatus for displaying a guitar on a wall in playing position with support braces that allow the insertion of each strap button which supports the weight of the guitar, a main body to hold the support braces in the proper position, and a support dowel to...

20060081111 - Two piece playing position guitar hanger: Two piece guitar hanger apparatus for displaying a guitar on a wall in playing position with support braces that allow the insertion of each strap button which supports the weight of the guitar, a support dowel to prohibit the guitar from tilting, and a spacer for angled peg head guitar...

20060081113 - Harmonica: A harmonica includes a comb with a plurality of cell sets each including alternately arranged first and second cells, a plurality of mouthpieces registered with the cell sets, a reed vibrating member having a plurality of reeds registered with the cells and configured to be vibrated by an air flow...

20060081115 - Marching bass drum supporting structure, marching bass drum, and carrier: A carrier for holding a bass drum with two first connection mechanisms and one second connection mechanism. The second connection mechanism includes a connection member, which is arranged on the bass drum, and a slide member, which is arranged on the carrier. The distal end of the slide member is...

20060081116 - Musical instrument accessory support device: The accessory support device is mechanically integrated into a musical instrument and provides a platform to which another instrument such as a cymbal, bell or woodblock, or an instrument accessory, such as a microphone, electronic triggering device, sheet music holder, wireless transmitter etc., may be mechanically applied....

20060081114 - Support device for percussion instruments: In a support device for a set of marching tenor drums arrayed in an arc shape of at least four drums, the device being held on the body of a player, two or three consecutive drums of the array, format least one group. The device includes a holding mechanism for...

20060081117 - Foam core multi rod drum stick: A stick type drumstick is disclosed which includes a plurality of elongated reasonably straight wooden rods formed around a central foam core. The central foam core is comprised of a larger diameter sized wooden rod, shorter in length and having attached to one end a foam rod of the same...

20060081118 - Compressed data structure and apparatus and method related thereto: Compressed waveform data structure is proposed which is suited for segmentation of a plurality of samples of compressed waveform data into a plurality of frames and subsequent storage of each of the frames. The number of bits per sample of the compressed waveform data is variable between the frames, but...

20060081119 - Tone data generation method and tone synthesis method, and apparatus therefor: Based on the understanding that time-varying characteristics of a tone element, such as an amplitude and pitch, in waveform data acquired through a live performance of a musical instrument include a variation component intended or controllable by a human player and a variation component not intended or non-controllable by the...

20060075873 - Music box gearing: A music box gearing with an integrated music box mechanism incorporates a main drive pinion for revolving units that also has a catch for securing the revolving unit. A music box casing incorporates a gear unit consisting at least of an adapter capable of attaching to the catch, a carrier...

20060075874 - String instrument chord player: A string chord player for a string instrument such as a guitar designed to be surroundably mounted onto the neck of the guitar. The string chord player includes an upper housing configured to mate with a lower housing forming an opening for receipt therein of a neck of a guitar....

20060075875 - Universal tuner mount with spring-loaded link: A universal mount for acoustically coupling a musical instrument tuner to an instrument has a link connected to the tuner at one end, the link adapted and arranged to be repositionable, and a clamp connected to the other end of the link for acoustically attaching the tuner and link to...

20060075876 - Percussion instrument remote air mute: A percussion instrument muting apparatus that dampens the volume or tone from a drum. The apparatus is mounted within a drum, and the muting level can be adjusted with a tube that extends from the muting assembly out an existing breather hole, and to an adjustment bulb. The muting assembly...

20060075877 - Electronic tambourine: An improved tambourine of the type having a frame being arcuate-shaped and including a center of gravity, a pair of rims, and a grasping portion disposed at or near the center of gravity of the frame so as to allow comfortable holding for long periods of time, and a plurality...

20060075878 - Intonation aid and position locator for violin family of instruments: A teaching aid for instructing proper finger position on a “fret-less” stringed instrument (for example, violin, viola, cello, bass) comprises a template that is positioned along the fingerboard at the proper finger position location (i.e., “first position”) for the first four half-steps associated with each string. A set of raised,...

20060075879 - Laser apparatus for musical instrument: A laser apparatus for a musical instrument, such as a guitar, is adapted to mount to the instrument and generate laser beams for illuminating selected portions of the instrument during a performance. The apparatus includes a positioning assembly for fixably adjusting the angular orientation of each of the laser beams....

20060075880 - System and methods for memory-constrained sound synthesis using harmonic coding: Systems (100 or 300) and methods (400 or 500) are provided for selecting a post-compression waveform from a post-compression waveform table (106) and supplying it to a synthesis engine (108). The post-compression waveform is based upon a set of post-compression coefficients determined by generating a frequency-domain representation of a periodic...

20060075882 - Electronic musical apparatus: An electronic musical instrument is configured to store music data including performance data on a plurality of tracks and receive designation of a track or tracks so that when a test-listen button for receiving instruction of test-listen of the designated track(s) is pressed, the electronic musical instrument plays the performance...

20060075881 - Method and device for a harmonic rendering of a melody line: In order to implement the melody extraction or the automatic clearly more stable or to improve the transcription result, respectively, at the resulting segments or trajectories, respectively, of a melody line gained from a spectrogram of the audio signal a harmony mapping is performed such that a follower segment directly...

20060075883 - Audio signal analysing method and apparatus: A method for determining the key of an audio signal such as a music track. Portions (106) of the audio signal are analysed (104) to identify (108) a musical note and its associated strength (110) within each portion. Some notes identified in a portion may be ignored (118) to enable...

20060075884 - Method and device for extracting a melody underlying an audio signal: The finding of the present invention is that the melody extraction or automatic transcription may be implemented clearly more stable and if applicable even less expensive when the assumption is considered sufficiently that the main melody is the portion of a piece of music which man perceives the loudest and...

20060075885 - Method and system for automatically generating world environmental reverberation from game geometry: Reverberation parameters for one or more positions of interest are derived from graphics data used for displaying a computer-generated environment. For each position of interest for which reverberation parameters are desired, environmental parameters including distances and the hardness of features in a range of interest and at points on cubemap...

20060075886 - Apparatus and method for generating an encoded rhythmic pattern: An encoded rhythmic pattern has several groups of velocity values, wherein the velocity values are sorted, such that the groups are included in sequence in an encoded rhythmic pattern. Now, the velocity values concentrated at the beginning of the encoded rhythmic pattern have a higher importance for characterizing the rhythmic...

20060075887 - Groove mapping: The invention provides a method and software for the adjustment of properties of media streams and events, principally timing information, based on a template, i.e., a groove map. The invention further provides methods by which the templates can be created, edited, and arranged within the context of the media they...

20060070507 - Structure for stringed instruments: The invention relates to a structure for stringed instruments comprising a body (1) made of mould material, a neck (2) fastened to the body and a head (3) fastened to the neck, wherein the head (3) is also made of mould material, the mould material of the body (1) and...

20060070508 - Guitar string retainer guide: A stringed instrument including a body having a front surface and a rear surface, a tuning mechanism, a neck having one end joined to the body and an opposite end retaining the tuning mechanism, and a retainer block encompassed by the rear surface. A plurality of strings each have a...

20060070509 - Music stand device and musical instrument having the musical stand device: A music stand device that can be securely mounted in a keyboard instrument or the like in a safe manner and with ease and improve the appearance of the keyboard instrument or the like. A music score plate holds a musical score on a musical score holding surface while being...

20060070510 - Musical composition data creation device and method: An apparatus and a method for making music data each perform converting an input audio signal indicative of a music piece into a frequency signal indicative of magnitudes of frequency components at predetermined time intervals; extracting frequency components corresponding to tempered tones respectively at the predetermined time intervals from the...

20060070513 - Metronome with wireless transducer: A metronome for use by a musician or group of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing an electrical signal according to a desired timing scheme and one or more transducers in wireless communication with the signal generator. Each transducer, which may take the form of a piezoelectric device,...

20060070512 - Multiple channel metronome: A multiple channel metronome for use by a plurality of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing electrical signals according to desired timing schemes and a plurality of transducers in communication with the signal generator. Each transducer, which may take the form of a piezoelectric device, a buzzer, electrodes...

20060070511 - Multiple channel metronome for use by split ensemble or antiphonal performers: A multiple channel metronome for use by a plurality of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing electrical signals according to desired timing schemes and a plurality of transducers in communication with the signal generator. Each transducer, which may take the form of a piezoelectric device, a buzzer, electrodes...

20060070514 - Tactile rhythm generator: A tactile rhythm generator for use by an athlete in training generally includes a signal generator for producing an electrical signal according to a desired timing scheme and a tactile transducer in electrical communication with the signal generator. The tactile transducer, which may take the form of a piezoelectric device,...

20060070515 - Keyboard apparatus: A keyboard apparatus which is capable of imparting a natural key depression feeling with a definite and positive load change, with a simplified construction. A key touch feeling-imparting mechanism imparts a predetermined key touch feeling to a key when it is depressed. The key touch feeling-imparting mechanism is comprised of...