Music inventions 08/07

20070199425 - Horn: The invention relates to a horn comprising a one-piece body which is preferably made from an injected plastic material. The aforementioned body defines a cylindrical tube (1) forming the acoustic chamber, the free end (1′) of which is flared. In addition, the tube (1) is surrounded by a coaxial wall... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070199426 - 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... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070199427 - Speaker and method of outputting acoustic sound: A speaker contains a pipe member containing opposed ends and a sounding body that is driven on the basis of an acoustic signal which is applied to the sounding body. The sounding body is arranged on the same axis as that of the pipe member. Sound wave radiated from the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070199428 - Guitdoorbell entry signal stringed instrument door chime: A dual element door chime assembly, positioning pick and fixed mount miniature guitar door chime, which provides musical, door opening audible indication and visual guitar decorative theme. The apparatus can be easily adapted to various sizes of doors and a plethora of doorway entry designs. The apparatus is comprised of... Agent: K. Brian Matlock

20070199429 - Drum stand with a vibration-reducing device: A drum stand has a base, a seat, a pivotal member, a supporting device and a vibration-reducing member. The seat is mounted on a top end of the base and can be rotated relative to the base. The pivotal member is pivotally connected to the seat and the supporting device... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20070199430 - 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... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070199431 - Metronome responding to moving tempo: A metronome ticking the takt for performance especially with moving tempo, and having display looks like conductor's baton so that watcher can precisely predict takt timing to catch up the moving tempo. It has tapping button to record all the takt duration time data on memory. With the data on... Agent: Seiji Kashioka

20070199432 - Mobile communication terminal with light effects editor: The activation of lights of a mobile communication terminal is controlled with information in music data files, such as SP-MIDI files. The music data files contain note events informating the terminal to play a note of a particular instrument. Light configuration messages are added to the SP-MIDI file. The light... Agent: Perman & Green

20070199433 - Fiddolin: A stringed musical instrument combination of at least two traditional stringed musical instruments or of nontraditional stringed musical instruments or a mix of traditional and nontraditional. The combination presents the advantages of rapid exchange while playing, reduced storage or transportation volume and a lower cost than two separate instruments. The... Agent: Charles F. Rye

20070193430 - Restringing device for stringed musical instruments: A restringing device for a stringed musical instrument includes an elongated housing including a first end and a second end, a driving shaft rotatably attached to the first end, a tuning socket that receives a tuning peg of the instrument and engages with the driving shaft, a string cutter that... Agent: Park Law Firm

20070193431 - Slip-grip: A non-slip, self-adhesive, flexible pad, the pad being made of material which can be affixed to the body of a stringed musical instrument to prevent the instrument from slipping in any direction on the player's clothing while the player is in a sifting or standing playing position. A method of... Agent: James Gerard Sweeney

20070193432 - Hoop body apparatus: A composite drum hoop. The composite drum hoop has a first body section. The first body section is configured to attach to a drum. A second body section attaches to the first body section. The second body section is arranged on the circular rim of the first body section to... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC

20070193433 - Drum tuning key: A drum tuning key comprises a handle portion, a barrel portion defining an axis connected to the handle portion, the barrel portion having internal walls defining a cavity extending inwardly along the axis from an end of the barrel portion, the cavity being square in cross section and adapted to... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20070193435 - Computer analysis and manipulation of musical structure, methods of production and uses thereof: A music modification system is provided and described herein, which includes: a) a computer, b) a music element library, c) at least one part-score database, d) a software code that executes a music modification system on the computer, wherein the music modification system accesses or manipulates the information in the... Agent: Buchalter Nemer

20070193436 - System and method for manipulation of sound data using haptic feedback: In an embodiment, a device which comprises means for generating an audio signal based on sound data, the audio signal configured to produce sound from an audio producing device; means for generating a haptic command based on the sound data, the haptic command configured to cause a haptic feedback device... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070193438 - Content reproduction list generation device, content reproduction list generation method, and program-recorded recording medium: A content reproduction list generation device includes an operation section, a storage section, and a reproduction list generation section. The storage section is configured to store a change pattern indicating reproduction tempo changes during content reproduction. The reproduction list generation section is configured to specify a change pattern in accordance... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070186749 - Speaker and method of outputting acoustic sound: A speaker has a pipe member with opposed open ends, and a sounding body that is attached to any one of the opposed open ends of the pipe member on the same axle as that of the pipe member. The sounding body is driven on the basis of an acoustic... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070186753 - Apparatus and method for a food and music matching system: An apparatus and method for providing a pleasing and coordinated combination of food and music is provided. In one embodiment, the musical food kit of the present invention combines a prerecorded musical selection or soundtrack in a prepackaged combination with a selected food item or group of foodstuffs and is... Agent: Wright Law Group, PLLC

20070186750 - Apparatus and method for composing music in a portable terminal: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for composing music in a portable terminal. A frequency of a sound input through a microphone is analyzed. A musical scale is distinguished with the analyzed frequency. A musical note is written with the distinguished musical scale. Thus, a user... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070186751 - Musical piece extraction program, apparatus, and method: Disclosed herein is a musical piece extraction program stored in a computer-readable storage medium, the program causing a computer to perform a process including the steps of, detecting a musical piece likeliness of each of pieces of processing-unit data that constitute input audio data, based on a result of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070186752 - Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions: Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and/or stored (for later play). The system preferably is provided in... Agent: Alan R. Loudermilk Loudermilk + Associates

20070186756 - Apparatus and method of playing back audio signal: An apparatus of playing back an audio signal includes storage means for dividing exercise tempos of a user into a plurality of groups and storing digital audio data concerning music pieces, the digital audio data being associated with the plurality of groups; a playback circuit that plays back the digital... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070186757 - Music practice supporting appliance: Provided is a music practice supporting appliance, which receives an input of sounds of a musical instrument, vocal music, and the like and acquiring and displaying deviation of those sounds inputted by a practicing person from preset reference sounds with high precision so that a change in the deviation is... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070186758 - Apparatus and method for controlling backround music in mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for controlling a background music (BGM) play operation is disclosed. The method determines if a predetermined hotkey is pressed during the BGM play operation and, if pressed, a BGM play control box is displayed while maintaining the state of an ongoing main operation. Function mapping of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070175309 - Chin rest for musical instrument: A chin rest for a musical instrument comprises a body, a first support, a second support, a chin pad and a third support. The first support extends from a first end portion of the body and has at least one clamping member for engaging an upper rim of a musical... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20070175310 - Instrument training device for stringed instruments: An instrument training device for use with a stringed instrument includes a plurality of training members. Each training member is constructed of a flexible material and includes opposed ends. Each end includes complementary fastening material such as hook and loop fasteners for securing a respective training member about a fret... Agent: Harshaw Research, Inc.

20070175312 - Capo applicable to dobro and slide guitars, and other raised-string instruments: A capo for Dobro® and slide guitars, and other raised-string instruments is lever-operated and compression adjustable, enabling one-handed placement and removal and precise, consistent chord formation.... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070175313 - Mp3 player holder assembly: A holder assembly for attachment to a hand-held microphone; wherein an electronic device such as an MP3 player or iPod is secured to the holder assembly, which includes a horizontal member and a vertical plate-like member. An attachment means along with a plurality of straps with hook and loop fasteners... Agent: Edwin Tarver

20070175314 - Saxophone and clarinet mouthpiece cap: A protective cap for the mouthpiece of a musical instrument includes a cap body fitting over the mouthpiece tip and an extension that is positively captured by a ligature normally holding the reed for the mouthpiece. The cap is designed to replace the reed when the instrument is left idle.... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070175315 - Event activated wind chime system and method of use: An event activated wind chime system and method of use are disclosed. In one form, an event activated wind chime system includes a wind chime assembly including at least one wind chime element proximally located to a striker operable to contact the wind chime element to output a wind chime... Agent: Joon Maeng

20070175316 - Digital music stand: A digital music display stand includes an operating unit containing processing structure, memory and a display.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070175318 - Resonance generator: According to which a damper is operated before or after keying, one of two resonances is generated. A second waveform storage 18 storing original waveform data of a first resonance based on a music sound including an impact sound of keying according to a before-key-pressing pedaling, and a third waveform... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070175319 - Musical synthesizer with expressive portamento based on pitch wheel control: The present invention is a musical synthesizer that can respond to a pitch wheel control by generating realistic slide-step-slide and slide-step portamento pitch curves. The musical synthesizer responds to a pitch wheel control in a context sensitive manner. When a first note-on occurs the pitch wheel behaves in the standard... Agent: Jennifer L. Bales

20070175322 - Rf-based dynamic remote control device based on generating and sensing of electrical field in vicinity of the operator: Circuitry in a wireless remote control apparatus applies a signal to a sensor plate of the device and detects the field, e.g. to sense a parameter related to the field that is responsive to relative position of a part of the body of the operator. In the example, the field... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP