Music inventions 09/07

20070221034 - Method and apparatus for converting a cd-jukebox to digital jukebox: A method and apparatus for converting a CD-jukebox to a digital jukebox provides a flat-panel touch-screen monitor or all-in-one panel computer to the door of a CD-jukebox to interface with the existing audio and payment components within the jukebox. The method may be used with floor-mount or wall-mount type CD-jukeboxes.... Agent: Larry D. Johnson

20070221037 - Keyboard musical instrument having accommodation space for fallboard between keyboard and rear top board: A keyboard musical instrument comprises a keyboard having a plurality of playing keys, a fallboard pivotably supported at its rear end for covering the keyboard when the instrument is not in use and exposing the keyboard when the instrument is in use, and a rear top board. An accommodation space... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070221039 - Moisture cap assembly for reed instruments: A cap for maintaining the reed of musical instruments moist when not in use comprising a cone shaped housing having an open end. An elongated slot is formed in the side wall of the housing. An offset compartment adjacent the closed end of the housing is provided for a flexible... Agent: Eugene E. Renz, Jr., P.C.

20070221041 - Key pad assembly and electronic device having the same: A keypad assembly, which includes at least one key configured to be provided at an outer surface of a body of an electronic device, a substrate including at least one switch that closes when the at least one key is depressed, and a supporting plate configured to detachably attach to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070221043 - A musical staff and notation system which incorporates both the grand staff and numerical notation, and is based on a pattern visually corresponding to the keyboard of the piano: A musical staff and notation system which incorporates both the Grand Staff and numerical notation, and is based on a pattern visually corresponding to the keyboard of the piano. The present invention replaces the Grand Staff's complex system of lines, spaces, sharps, flats, and accidentals with a system of “pitch... Agent: Hao Jia House 1023, Villa Yosemite

20070221045 - Playback device, contents selecting method, contents distribution system, information processing device, contents transfer method, and storing medium: A playback device includes a storing unit storing a contents database in which contents including at least music and tempo information indicating the tempo of the music are correlated with each other; a playback unit for performing playback of the contents; a tempo measuring unit for measuring an exercise tempo... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070221046 - Music playing apparatus, storage medium storing a music playing control program and music playing control method: A game apparatus includes a CPU core, and the CPU core executes a music playing game according to a game program. During the game, a player plays a guitar as if he or she plucks the strings displayed on an operation screen while viewing a musical score of a desired... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070221049 - Digital light with target effects: A digital light used with stage items. The digital light can form a portion of a stage performers costume, by for example illuminating a logo of the or a shape or color onto that costume. The digital light can also form effects when used in conjunction with phosphor paint. Another... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070214932 - Individual string adjusting tailpiece: A tailpiece for a banjo with individual string adjustment control for independently adjusting the string angle of the banjo strings with respect to the bridge. The tailpiece includes a mounting bracket having a bearing plate and an attachment means for attaching the tailpiece to the banjo head. A separate lever... Agent: Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20070214933 - Device for adjusting the tension of the strings of a guitar or of a bass: A device for adjusting the tension of the strings of a guitar having at least two strings, particularly an electric guitar or a bass, particularly an electric bass, in which each string of the guitar or bass is, with one end, wound on a turning peg of an adjusting mechanism... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070214934 - Hand actuated tremolo system for guitars: A tremolo device with a movable bridge, an adjustment device, and a support frame is implemented on an acoustic guitar, with features that can also be employed on an electric guitar or other stringed instruments. The movable bridge holds strings of the musical instrument in tension. The adjustment device, such... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070214936 - Web configuration in acoustic impedance-inducing device: A coiled blank defines two elongated parallel bands and a parallel web separating the bands. Opposite ends of the web form diagonally opposed spacer strips arranged such that, when the blank is coiled to bring the ends of the web into juxtaposition, the opposed spacer strips define between themselves an... Agent: Kyle W. Rost

20070214937 - Keyboards: A keyboard unit (10) comprising a plurality of keys (12) surrounding a centre (14) and operable singly and chordally by a single finger (or thumb). Preferred arrangements consist of three, four or seven surrounding keys (12), particularly for playing musical notes of an octave. A keyboard (16) may comprise a... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070214938 - Peg cutter: A peg cutter for the peg elements of stringed musical instruments, comprising a cutting-object receptacle, a blade with at least one cutting edge the position of which relative to the cutting-object receptacle is adjustable, and at least one contact element for the blade for defining the position of the at... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20070214940 - Electromagnetic musical instrument frequency conversion systems and related methods: A method for generating electromagnetic (EM) music through excitation of an EM Musical Instrument is provided. An input queue, comprised of three sub-queues, receives three input audio queues. An EM excitation signal is generated based on the received input audio queues. The EM excitation signal is applied to the EM... Agent: Cash Klemchuk Powers Taylor LLP

20070214941 - Musical theme searching: A musical information retrieval system and process is presented. The system and process generally involves a user employing a unique graphic user interface (GUI) to enter a musical theme query, which is then characterized using a special normalized format. The characterized musical query is then compared in a variety of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070209497 - Sound responsive light system: In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a sound responsive light system. The system comprises an amplifier configured to receive an input signal from an audio source. The input signal corresponds to an audio signal. The system further comprises a plurality of filters configured to receive an amplified signal from... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070209498 - Midi encoding and decoding: A method and unit for composing or decomposing a multimedia signal according to the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) protocol. The signal carries events of a first type, which are arranged to carry instructions regarding which predefined patches to use for playback and which predefined notes to play, and events... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070209499 - Music composition data editing device and music composition data editing method: In a music composition data editing device and a music composition data editing method according to the present invention, music composition data comprises at least main data, ending data and connecting data being divided in the time-axis direction, wherein the reproduction time of the main data is calculated in bar... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070204742 - Musical instrument case: A musical instrument case comprising a body which defines an outer and inner surface, first and second members, and a support layer affixed within the inner surface of the body and a microfiber layer affixed to the support layer.... Agent: Italia Ip

20070204744 - Content reproducing apparatus, audio reproducing apparatus and content reproducing method: A content reproducing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a sensor; a discrimination circuit configured to discriminate whether a movement of a user is a first movement or a second movement based on a detection output from the sensor; a storage configured to store contents; a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.