Music inventions 07/06

20060162527 - Musical instrument bow: Provided are an improved musical instrument bow having different sections of hair identified, a modular hair device for use in the improved musical instrument bow and a method of teaching use of a stringed instrument using the improved musical instrument bow....

20060162528 - Stringed instrument bridge and stringed instrument: A stringed instrument bridge arrangeable on a body of a bass guitar. The bridge includes a plurality of saddle units, each corresponding to a string. Each saddle unit includes a base plate, a unit base, and a saddle. A screw pivotally supports the unit base on the base plate. The...

20060162529 - Collapsible and adjustable stand for a musical instrument: A collapsible and adjustable stand for a musical instrument has a rod and a holder. The rod has an upper seat pivotally mounted on a top end thereof, a V-like head provided on the upper seat, a slot defined in a middle portion thereof, a lower seat slidably provided in...

20060162530 - Sounding body for musical instrument and method for making the sounding body: Reed includes a proximal end section, and an extension section extending straight in a forward direction from the proximal end section. The extension section has a distal end section and a thin plate portion, and the distal end section has a mass portion where much of the mass of the...

20060162531 - Limited page turning device: A page turning device designed specifically to turn a limited number of pages back and forth. The pages are manually preloaded between strips of material mounted on mechanical arms. Activation of a switch causes the mechanical arms to rotate and turn the pages. Subsequent activation of the switch causes the...

20060162533 - Cooperative musical instrument: A series of musical vehicles form a cooperative musical instrument. Each musical vehicle may be outfitted with a musical tone generator and horn, or loud speaker that plays a particular note on a music scale. Each musical vehicle may have multiple horns or speakers having a predetermined tonal separation between...

20060162532 - Network based triggering in an instrument system: Techniques for network based triggering in an instrument system that enable instruments to effectively signal events without hardwired trigger lines. An instrument system according to the present teachings includes a first instrument and a second instrument coupled to a local area network. The first instrument is capable of performing an...

20060162534 - Self-calibrating transducer system and musical instrument equipped with the same: A self-calibrating key sensor system is constituted by an optical modulator, optical position transducers, a data accumulator and a data analyzer, and the optical modulator has a gray scale section to produce a key position signal varied together with the keystroke and an absolute data section to produce a calibration...

20060156893 - Stringed instrument nut and stringed instrument: A stringed instrument including strings supported by bridges, which are fixed to a body, and a nut fixed to a neck. The strings are supported in a manner enabling vibration of each string. The nut includes a nut body and a fastener. The fastener is formed by pressing members and...

20060156894 - Stringed instrument and associated fret mapping method: A stringed instrument and associated fret mapping method. The instrument includes a neck having a fret board provided with a plurality of frets having offset string contact regions along their length, whereby accurate intonation of a note is achieved when a string is brought into contact with one of the...

20060156895 - Flexible guitar pick: A flexible guitar pick is provided, wherein there is a cutout section that traverses the center of the pick to create a hinge point at each side of the pick allowing the pick to have extreme flexibility when strumming. Furthermore by choking up on the pick with the players' finger...

20060156896 - Bass guitar stand up adapter: An apparatus for converting a standard electric bass guitar to play as a classical upright bass guitar. A bass guitar stand up apparatus may include a mounting stand such as a tri or uni-pod, an adapter, an arm, and a stabilizer. The apparatus may be adjustable for height selection. The...

20060156897 - Transverse whistle flute and method of playing: A musical instrument similar to the traditional flute but easier to play and master has been designed as an introductory flute. The whistle flute can also be used by those who have had difficulty with traditional flute embouchure and/or for recreation, education, music therapy, and stage performance. With greater range,...

20060156898 - Resonating chamber for devices including musical instruments: A resonating device is disclosed. The device can include a generally planar first portion, a second portion opposite the first portion, and a body portion. The body portion generally has a first stiffness and includes a discontinuity with a second stiffness that is less than the first stiffness. The discontinuity...

20060156899 - Snare drum assemblies, including assemblies with flexible snare anchors, and associated methods: Snare drum assemblies, including assemblies with flexible snare anchors, and associated methods are described. A drum assembly in accordance with one embodiment includes a set of snare strands, each having a first end and a second end, a first, flexible snare anchor connected directly to the snare strands toward the...

20060156902 - Drum cymbal washer: A resilient washer design having an annulus body and a concentric sleeve extending from the annulus with a plurality of ribs extending from the sleeve. The washer may have an opposing sleeve extending from the opposite side of the annulus with a second plurality of ribs in staggered location to...

20060156900 - Drum pedal: A drum pedal, having a drive assembly supported by a pedestal, may include a drive shaft, a rotatably adjustable drive ring having an arm, and a rotatably adjustable beater ring. A link may connect a foot board with the arm. A beater may have a stem affixed to the beater...

20060156901 - Drum pedal: A drum pedal, having a drive assembly supported by a pedestal, may include a drive shaft, a rotatably adjustable drive ring, and a rotatably adjustable beater ring. In another aspect, a drum pedal may have a drive assembly supported by a pedestal comprising a journaled drive shaft, a rotatable bearing...

20060156903 - Pedal assemblies and methods for signal control: Pedal assemblies and methods provide for signal control, such as for controlling audio and/or effects path signals used in generating audio from a musical instrument. The pedal assemblies may provide for simultaneous audio and effects control via electrical pathways dedicated to each. Rotation of the pedal about one or more...

20060156904 - Cubichord: For this reason when I demonstrate that a chord in one color the principles continue to similarly apply in each of the three basic colors used, white, black, and blue, and also with different color choices, silver, black and gold, or whatever selection of three colors you choose; likewise, it...

20060156905 - Previous event feedback system for electronic player piano systems: A method of utilizing previous event feedback information from historical derived hammer velocity data, such as associated with a MIDI record function, for providing non-real-time feedback when controlling actuators. The use of non-real-time feedback within the present invention provides a number of advantages over the use of conventional real-time feedback...

20060156906 - Method and apparatus for generating visual images based on musical compositions: The present invention generates 3D moving images representing various aspects of a musical performance that can be synchronized, as necessary, to the changing tempo of a live or recorded performance, either automatically, or with live-controlled user input, and either with or without a score....

20060156907 - System and method to align clock signals: A system and method use an aligning device to align clock signals of two logic devices before data transfer between them. In this example, the aligning device aligns a clock signal of a sequencer with a clock signal of a storage device before the sequencer transfers data to the storage...

20060156908 - Keyboard instrument: [MEANS FOR SOLVING] A keyboard instrument 10 includes a keyboard portion 4 constituted only of keyboards 21 in which tone intervals are arranged so as to repeat an arrangement of whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step and half step. That is, without disposing black...

20060156909 - Singing voice synthesizing method, singing voice synthesizing device, program, recording medium, and robot: A singing voice synthesizing method synthesizes the singing voice by exploiting performance data, such as MIDI data. The input performance data are analyzed as the musical information including the pitch and the length of the sounds and the lyric (S2 and S3). If the musical information analyzed lacks in the...

20060156910 - Electronic percussion instrument and displacement detection apparatus: An electronic percussion instrument with a single cymbal and a displacement detection apparatus that detects the displacement of an electronic cymbal. The electronic percussion instrument is designed to allows users to simulate the performance feel of an acoustic cymbal with two cymbals. The single cymbal of the instrument moves vertically...

20060156911 - Advanced magnetic circuit to improve both the solenoidal and magnetic functions of string instrument pickups with co-linear coil assemblies: An electromagnetic pickup for a stringed musical instrument incorporating a magnetic structure placed between two elongated collinear coils of opposing polarity. The magnetic structure includes a number of ferromagnetic polepieces that extend through the collinear coils and two ferromagnetic moderator bars adjacent to and on opposite sides of the polepieces...

20060156912 - Electric guitar with cascaded voice and mode controls and laminated through body and method thereof: The present invention broadly comprises an electric guitar including a first pickup with first and second coils, a second pickup with third and fourth coils, a first switch connected to the first pickup, and a second switch connected to the second pickup. The first and second switches are arranged to...

20060156913 - 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 ergonomic access to the control platform through the soundhole while using the musical instrument. The control platform includes a circuit platform, mounted inside...

20060150797 - Stringed musical instrument with multiple bridge-soundboard units: A stringed musical instrument having multiple bridge-soundboard units, each unit substantially acoustically independent from other bridge-soundboard units. Said bridge soundboard units are coupled to a set of strings such that a number of the strings within the set are sounded through the first bridge-soundboard unit, others are sounded through a...

20060150798 - Strap with accessory: A musical instrument strap assembly includes a musical instrument strap having ends configured to attach to a musical instrument. An accessory is attached to the musical instrument strap. In some arrangements, the accessory is configured to hold a lighter. In some arrangements, the accessory is a bottle opener. In some...

20060150799 - Method for manufacturing a percussion instrument: A method of manufacturing a percussion instrument has the steps of providing a first member into a liquid with the first member having a first diameter. The first member has a first end and a second end. The method also has the step of heating the liquid and stretching the...

20060150800 - Method for manufacturing a percussion instrument: A method of manufacturing a percussion instrument has the steps of providing a first member into a liquid with the first member having a first diameter. The first member has a first end and a second end. The method also has the step of heating the liquid and stretching the...

20060150801 - Constructive device introduced in percussion drum foot pedal for musical instrument: A device (A) on which a pedal (1) is pivotally mounted. The pedal (1) is connected to a cable (2) that passes through a support (3) and is introduced through a flexible conduit (4). The opposite end of the cable (2) is mounted on another support (5) that comprises a...

20060150802 - System for use of a personal computer for performing music: A system for the polyphonic performance of music on a personal computer requiring no additional hardware to generate said music other than the standard hardware found in said personal computer in combination with a software program and lookup tables that enables one with no musical training to perform musical compositions...

20060150803 - System and method for music score capture and synthesized audio performance with synchronized presentation: A music score is interpreted and processed and a synthesized performance of the music score is generated along with a visual display of the musical score. The music score can be received by an image capture process or by electronic file transfer. A user's musical performance of the musical score...

20060150804 - Electronic musical apparatus for displaying score or fingering: A CPU 21 executes a program stored in an external storage device 25 to convert original music data including a series of note information in accordance with a fundamental tone for a first musical instrument into new music data including a series of note information in accordance with a fundamental...

20060150805 - Method of automatically detecting vibrato in music: A method of automatically detecting a vibrato from musical components includes calculating vibrato parameters including a vibrator rate, a vibrato extent and an intonation using a maximum likelihood estimation with respect to a musical instrument or voice frequency information, calculating a vibrato existence probability using the vibrato parameters, and determining...

20060150806 - Pickup apparatus: A pickup apparatus for independently detecting the vibrations of each of a plurality of strings, and an electronic stringed instrument utilizing the pickup apparatus. The pickup apparatus minimizes the crosstalk effects between the different pickups by positioning the pickups such that the magnetic force lines of each pickup is not...

20060144208 - Stringed musical instrument and method: The stringed musical instrument may be a guitar including a guitar body optionally defining a soundboard, an elongated neck extending from the guitar body and having a distal end, a headstock disposed at the distal end of the neck, and a plurality of strings each secured at a first end...

20060144209 - Musical instrument with detachable neck: A stringed musical instrument, such as a guitar or a bass, has a body portion and a second portion, such as a neck, adapted to be attached to the body portion. The musical instrument further has a locking system for releasably securing the second portion to the body portion and...

20060144210 - Instrument support with two adjustable arms: An instrument support has a bracket provided with a first leg, a second leg, a disk and two forks. Each of the first leg and the second leg has a through hole defined in a side face of the first leg and second leg to communicate with an interior of...

20060144211 - Data input device and data input method: An efficient and user friendly data entry device and data entry method. At least a first symbol and a second symbol are printed on a key-top, and at least a first switch and a second switch are provided corresponding to the symbols. The first switch is activated when the first...

20060144212 - Electronic tone generation system and batons therefor: An electronic tone generation system including a plurality of separate, portable, handheld transmitters, or batons, that are provided as “instruments” to one or more players. Each baton can be activated to send a signal, preferably a wireless signal, to a single receiver which produces an output signal fed to a...

20060144213 - Fluid user interface such as immersive multimediator or input/output device with one or more spray jets: A fluid user interface is presented for applications such as immersive multimedia. In one embodiment, one or more sprays or jets create an immersive multimedia environment in which a participant can interact within the immersive multimedia environment by blocking, partially blocking, diverting, or otherwise engaging with a fluid, to create...