Music inventions 04/07

20070089588 - Adjustable bass drum beater: A bass drum beater may include a shaft having a length, a beater head fixable to a selected position along the length, and a connector engageable to the beater head and to the shaft to secure the position. The beater head may form an angle with respect to the shaft... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20070089589 - System and method of teaching musical notes: A system and method of teaching musical notes are adapted to teach identification of music staff notes, the names and sounds of notes, as well as piano keys corresponding to notes. An implementation of the method entails displaying a musical keyboard having a plurality of keys, a musical staff and... Agent: Mark James Young

20070089591 - Low-cost, widely-applicable instruction system: A system for teaching a student to play a musical instrument has a first portion of a musical score displayed as a first visual example and annotated with a first identifying indicia, a second portion of the musical score following the first portion in the score, as a second visual... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070089590 - Performance teaching apparatus and program for performance teaching process: In an electronic musical instrument 100, CPU confirms a pitch range of music stored in a music memory, and generates a keyboard image as large as possible for display based on marks M1 and M2 on a keyboard and the confirmed pitch range, and sends and displays the generated keyboard... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070089592 - Method of and system for timing training: A timing-training method includes displaying, via a sweep function, a real-time visual indicator responsive to user input and generating a plurality of sounds synchronized with the sweep function.... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, PC

20070089593 - Music session system, music session system server, and program for implementing method of controlling the server: A music session system which makes it possible to expand the functions of electronic musical apparatuses. The server is connected to a first electronic musical apparatus belonging to a first user and capable of executing music sessions, a first personal computer (PC) belonging to the first user and capable of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070089594 - 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 generate analog audio signals, convert those signals into digital signals, format the digital signals according to a... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070084326 - Audio application programming interface: An audio application programming interface (API) enables an audio processing graph to be modified during processing. If they are received while the audio graph is playing or paused, graph modifying commands may be inserted into either an asynchronous command queue or a deferred command queue. The audio API may also... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070084327 - 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... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070084328 - Timpani with quick, accurate and programmable tuning system: Timpani with quick and accurate tuning are shown. Each of timpani has a motor to drive the mechanism which gives variable tension to the head. Given tone is transformed to period of vibration and then to target displacement value of head rim against body. Motor is driven so that the... Agent: Seiji Kashioka

20070084329 - Strings for musical instruments: Novel musical instrument strings and methods for making the same. Polymer cover combined with a low temperature resin is provided to the strings. Also disclosed are novel plastic materials comprising a film of porous fluoropolymer having UV-cured resin applied to at least a portion of the porosity of the film.... Agent: Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.

20070084330 - Tuning device for musical instruments and computer program for visualizing tuning status: A tuning device assists a worker in a tuning work on a musical instrument such as an upright piano; the tuning device firstly converts a tone to a series of audio data, and analyzes a series of audio data so as to compare an actual pitch of the tone with... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070084332 - Crib toy: Provided are a method and system for entertaining, educating or calming an infant or other individual, which includes a panel-shaped member having a plurality of user selectable switches by which a user may select musical segments having various musical styles for output by the member. Other user selectable switches permit... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP

20070084333 - Graphical user interface and methods of use thereof in a multimedia player: In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for providing user supplied configuration data are described. In one embodiment, a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface are provided. A first order, or home, interface provides a highest order of user selectable items each of which, when selected, results in... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20070084331 - Position correction for an electronic musical instrument: A system and method for correction of finger positions for an electronic musical instrument. By adding a correction step in the direction of a nearest grid value, the system can perform correction in a manner that allows for gradual position correction while maintaining a vibrato or glissando shape that is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070084334 - Resonance generation device of electronic musical instrument, resonance generation method of electronic musical instrument, computer program, and computer readable recording medium: A resonance generation device of an electronic musical instrument, including: a key depression state detecting means detecting whether a key which is in a specific relation with a played key is already depressed or not when a key playing operation is performed; a specific relation detecting means detecting the relation... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070084335 - Musical instrument with bone conduction monitor: The invented device enables the player of a musical instrument to monitor an electrical audio signal by bone conduction during playing. A conductively emitting surface, comprising an electromechanical transducer driven by the electrical audio signal to be monitored, is disposed on the exterior of the musical instrument to contact a... Agent: John W. Silzel

20070079685 - Plectrum or pick: A plectrum or pick for plucking or strumming strings of a musical instrument. A first body has two surfaces that form a void between the two surfaces. A second body has a bridge that extends between surfaces of the second body. At least a portion of the bridge is positioned... Agent: Douglas H. Pauley Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20070079686 - Snare-adjusting device for a snare drum: A snare-adjusting device for adjusting a tension of a snare on a snare drum has a drum mount, a slide assembly and a tone lever assembly. The drum mount is mounted the snare drum and has a slide cavity, an opening and multiple blind holes. The slide assembly is mounted... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070079687 - Holding device with two composite washer assemblies for a cymbal: A holding device with composite washer assemblies for a cymbal has a stand rod, an adjusting rod, an inner fastener, an outer fastener, an inner composite washer assembly and an outer composite washer assembly. The adjusting rod is mounted pivotally on the stand rod. The inner and outer fasteners are... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070079688 - Tuning device for musical instruments and computer program used therein: A tuning device includes an analog-to-digital converter for converting sound waves propagated from a piano to an audio signal in synchronism with a sampling signal and a data processor for visualizing a difference between a target pitch of a tone and an actual pitch of the tone; since the sampling... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070079689 - Waveform generation for fm synthesis: A method and system is disclosed for generating one or more predetermined waveforms from one or more contiguous segments of at least one prototype waveform stored in one or more memory tables, the method and system comprising iterations of following sample processing steps: reading at least one sample of the... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070079690 - Dance game machine, method for scoring dance game and computer-readable recording medium: A dance game machine has a mode wherein instruction information to guide a player's dance motion is displayed on a display part, and a mode wherein the instruction information is not displayed. If not displayed, a storage part stores music data, step data, screen data, and comment data corresponding to... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070079691 - System and method for pacing repetitive motion activities: Disclosed is a system and method that allows users to customize audible and visible signals, such as music or video, to maintain a pre-determined or specified pace or to achieve a new pace in repetitive motion activities such as, but not limited to, running, walking, swimming, cycling, aerobics, and the... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070079692 - Midi-compatible hearing device: The hearing device is MIDI-compatible, wherein MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. The hearing device can be adapted to communicating and/or loading and/or storing and/or interpreting and/or generating data compliant with the MIDI Protocol, also referred to as MIDI messages. Acknowledge sounds of the hearing device an be controlled... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070079693 - Pianoforte instrument exhibiting an additional delivery of energy into the sound board, and method for influencing the sound of a pianoforte instrument: Disclosed is a pianoforte instrument comprising a musical mechanism with keys. Also provided are strings which are struck via a mechanism when the keys are actuated and are made to vibrate. The vibrations of the strings are transmitted to a sound board. A device is provided for delivering additional oscillating... Agent: Salter & Michaelson The Heritage Building

20070079694 - Procedure and device for linearizing the characteristic curve of a vibration signal transducer such as a microphone: A procedure and device for linearizing the characteristic curve of a vibration signal transducer such as a microphone that includes collecting signals, transmitting the signals, extracting information from the signals, dephasing such information by 180 degrees compared to the initial signals and taking the algebraic sum of the initial signals... Agent: Jones Day

20070074618 - System and method for selecting music to guide a user through an activity: A system and method for choosing songs that can be utilized to guide a user through the performance of an activity. A system is disclosed that includes: a system for processing a beats per minute (BPM) template, wherein the BPM template defines a set of tempo values that vary; a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070074617 - System and method for tailoring music to an activity: A system and method for tailoring music to an activity. A song selection system that includes: a system for inputting cadence data from a user performing a physical activity; a system for determining a cadence rate associated with the inputted cadence data; a database of songs; and a system for... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070074619 - System and method for tailoring music to an activity based on an activity goal: A system and method for tailoring music to an activity based on an activity goal is provided that includes: a system for defining the activity goal for the user, wherein the activity goal comprises an activity value that varies; a database of songs; a system for selecting songs from the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070074620 - Method and apparatus for randomized variation of musical data: An initial note series is collected from a real-time source of musical input material such as a keyboard or a sequencer playing back musical data, or extracted from musical data stored in memory. The initial note series may be altered to create variations of the initial note series using various... Agent: Brian K. Johnson, Esq., LLC.

20070074621 - Method and apparatus to generate spatial sound: A spatial sound generation method and apparatus by which reflected sounds of an input sound signal are generated and by using the reflected sounds, a spatial sound is generated. The method includes delaying an input signal by applying a specified number of a plurality of delay values to the input... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070074622 - System and method for adjusting midi volume levels based on response to the characteristics of an analog signal: An apparatus and method of controlling note velocity within an electronically controlled player piano in response to the analog characteristics (level, strength, amplitude, etc.) of a received audio signal encoded with a MIDI (or similar) note stream. The invention allows conventional audio playback devices to be utilized as a source... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20070074623 - 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 in conformance with the angle of the foot pedal relative to the supporting pedestal. A... Agent: Foley & Lardner