Music inventions 02/07

20070039446 - Guitar hangar: A guitar hangar for hanging a guitar having a neck and head on a closet rod. The hangar has a shaft having a longitudinal axis, a proximal end and distal end. The proximal end is configured in the shape of a hook sized to receive the closet rod. A set... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP Attn: Michael E. Dergosits

20070039447 - Chord progression based techniques and tools for learning to play music: Techniques for gaining facility in the performance of jazz music by performing a sequence of patterns. Each pattern begins at a fixed interval from the preceding pattern in the sequence and the patterns are performed with perpetual motion between the patterns. The patterns are all performed with the same articulation... Agent: Gordon E Nelson Patent Attorney, PC

20070039448 - Expression centered singing: The invention provides a method of teaching singing calculated to optimize the singer's natural, intuitive capability to emote sound associated with a “feeling” and thereby to experience consciously (“tag”) the physical positions of the sound producing musculature within the singer's body. The method provides a means for the teacher of... Agent: Neville Law Group

20070039449 - Method and apparatus for remote real time collaborative music performance and recording thereof: An improved method and apparatus are disclosed to permit real time, distributed performance by multiple musicians at remote locations, and for recording that collaboration. The latency of the communication channel is transferred to the behavior of the local instrument so that a natural accommodation is made by the musician. This... Agent: William G. Redmann

20070039450 - Musical interaction assisting apparatus: A musical interaction assisting apparatus is to enhance friendliness between an electronic musical instrument and the player. The player's actions are detected acoustically, visually or physically, and the interaction assisting apparatus interprets the detected player's actions and generates interactive responses thereto. The interactive responses are outputted acoustically, visually or physically... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070039451 - Structure and method for playing midi messages and multi-media apparatus using the same: A structure for playing MIDI messages including a main-control element, a buffer memory, a MIDI synthesizer, and a pre-processor is provided. The main-control element receives tone colors and the MIDI messages, and loads at least part of the tone colors to the buffer memory. The main-control element transmits the MIDI... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070039452 - Electronic keyboard instrument: In an electronic keyboard instrument, each key moves from an initial position to a full stroke position via first, second, and third positions sequentially. A velocity detector detects a first key velocity of the key when the key moves from the first position to the second position, and detects a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070034070 - Instructional device and method for guitar or other stringed instrument: An instructional device and method for illustrating note positions in combinations corresponding to chords formed on a musical instrument is provided. The device includes a display that defines a plurality of note positions along each of a plurality of lines. The note positions correspond to the positions along the strings... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070022863 - Drum damper systems: A drum damper for a musical drum comprises a first portion including material having high impact strength and durability suitable for withstanding the forces generated by striking a musical drum. A second portion includes material having sound damping properties suitable for reducing the sound level generated by striking a musical... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070022864 - Key structure and keyboard apparatus: A key structure which is capable of giving a woody appearance to the key, and increasing the freedom of mounting at least one functional part formed as a separate part from the key structure, while maintaining excellent machinability. An upper plate has an increased width part corresponding to an end... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070022866 - Method and system for generating musical variations directed to particular skill-levels: Various embodiments are directed to an automated method and system component for generating variations of one or more musical selections directed to particular students or to particular skill-levels into which students may be classified. The method and system component may be included in a wide variety of different music rendering,... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070022865 - Performance apparatus and tone generation method using the performance apparatus: Key switches are arranged to form plural rows, and light emitting elements are provided in corresponding relation to the key switches. For each of the rows, any operated key switch is detected, and, on the basis of such detection, the light emitting elements are sequentially illuminated so that an illuminated... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070022867 - Beat extraction apparatus and method, music-synchronized image display apparatus and method, tempo value detection apparatus, rhythm tracking apparatus and method, and music-synchronized display apparatus and method: A music-synchronized display apparatus includes a beat extractor configured to detect a portion in which a power spectrum in a spectrogram of an input music signal greatly changes and to output a detection output signal that is synchronized in time to the changing portion in synchronization with the input music... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070022868 - Performance apparatus and tone generation method therefor: A Plurality of key switches for tone-generating are arranged two-dimensionally. Mode setting section sets a tone adjusting mode in which the key switches are caused to function as tone-adjusting operators. In the tone adjusting mode, adjustment of a predetermined tone factor (e.g., tone pitch, tone length, tone volume or tone... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070022869 - Loudspeaker sensitive sound reproduction: A reproduction of a music file is modified for adapting a reproduction of the audio data contained in the music file to the characteristic of a small size loudspeaker on a mobile terminal of a wireless communication system so that the audibility of the respective music or polyphonic sound contained... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.