Music inventions 11/07

20070272068 - Ergonomic classical guitar: The sound box includes two truncated portions (1 and 4) for enabling the body to take up a better position in order to avoid certain pathologies induced by playing the instrument as it currently exists.... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070272070 - \"paladin\" microphones - transducers for gloves and finger sheaths: A hand adaptive microphone—transducer single finger sheaths that comprises of a K&K Hot Spot contact pickup with a ⅛″ audio jack, this is a (single sensing element) as illustrated in FIG. (1A) FIG. (2A) comprises of two single finger sheaths that has a K&K Twin Spot contact pickups with a... Agent: Clennon Oscar Mcginnis Ii

20070272071 - Flute: The invention relates to a flute consisting of i) a hollow resonator tube, which is open at both ends and which is provided with finger holes and keys, and ii) a hollow blow tube provided with a mouthpiece, which is open at both ends, wherein said blow tube can be... Agent: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.

20070261533 - Electronic conductor to assist people in playing music: A signaling device for use by a musical conductor to transmit individualized cues to musicians playing in concert. The main utility exists where the musicians are disabled and cannot receive cues from a conductor in the usual manner. The device comprises a switch console for use by the conductor, an... Agent: Stanley H. Kremen

20070261535 - Metadata-based song creation and editing: Relating higher-level descriptive musical metadata to lower-level musical elements to enable creation of a song map, song model, backing track, or the like. The musical elements are queried based on input metadata to create a set of musical elements of varying types such as notes, chords, song structures, and the... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070261536 - Method and system for processing music on a computer device: A method for processing and playing music. The method includes providing a computing system, an input device, and a display. The method provides a selected music composition in a sequence of music notes. A user input is provided at a selected time as the selected music composition is animated on... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070261537 - Creating and sharing variations of a music file: A method, device, system and apparatus are provided for creating and sharing variations of a music file, wherein a variation metadata file is created that indicates which beats, measures and/or segments of an original music file are included in the variation created, in what order these beats, measures and/or segments... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070261538 - Method of retrieving and selecting content, content playback apparatus, and search server: A method of retrieving and selecting content includes the steps of detecting a motion tempo of a user; determining whether a time during which the detected motion tempo is continuously outside a threshold range of the motion tempo corresponding to content being played back exceeds a waiting time that is... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070261540 - Flute controller driven dynamic synthesis system: The present invention is an electronic musical instrument that in appearance and playing characteristics closely resembles flute-like instruments such as a conventional flute or a shakuhachi. The instrument comprises an electronic controller that has operating characteristics that resemble a flute and computer software executable on a computer for converting signals... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070256532 - Drum made of environment friendly materials: A drum includes a shell, which is made of environment friendly materials such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Polycarbonate (PC), Polystyrene (PS), and Polypropylene (PP); furthermore, after shaping, the drum shell is printed, plated, and decorated with stickers on the surface so as to be bright-colored and capable of varying in... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070256533 - Guitar pick: An improved guitar pick or plectrum for use with a stringed musical instrument. The improved pick has a substantially planar central gripping portion and at least one and not more than four substantially planar picking wing portions peripherally extending, one each in a respective different longitudinal direction from the central... Agent: Gary K. Price, Esq. Bowers Harrison, LLP

20070256536 - Adjustable hand rest post for musical instruments: Adjustable hand rest post for a musical instrument, wherein the hand rest post is constructed to provide multiple adjustments of the position of the hand rest on which the hand or hands of the musical performer rest when playing a musical instrument, such as a bassoon or contrabassoon. The adjustable... Agent: Curtis E. Sherrer

20070256537 - Compact, multiple percussion practice pad apparatus: A percussion practice pad assembly, comprising a support, multiple pads carried by the support to be selectively struck, the pads characterized as producing different sounds, when struck, as during practice.... Agent: William W. Haefliger

20070256538 - Method and apparatus for counter-weighting a bass drum: This invention is a new and useful method and apparatus for counter-weighting a bass drum to prevent slippage while in use on hard, slick floors in a traditional rock or jazz-style percussion arrangement. This method and apparatus utilizes the weight of a percussion player sitting on his or her percussion... Agent: Michael Brian Parra

20070256540 - System and method of instructing musical notation for a stringed instrument: A system and method of instructing a user to read musical notation through interaction with a graphical user interface and an input instrument representative of a stringed instrument comprising a plurality of modes of instruction which progressively direct and alter characteristics of the user interface to more closely resemble standard... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20070256541 - Musical video game console and methods therefor: A game console capable of operating with a variety of electronic musical instruments is provided. Such a system is especially useful for downloading different musical video games for a variety of musical instruments and capable of changing the level of difficulty during play. In one embodiment, the electronic musical instrument... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070256543 - Method and system for assessing a musical performance: The invention relates to a method and system for assessing a performance of a musical composition in relation to a model performance of the same composition. In particular, as even a model performance does not follow a score of a composition precisely, the present invention initially correlates the model performance... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070256544 - Sound processing apparatus, sound processing method, sound processing program and recording medium which records sound processing program: A sound-processing apparatus is provided that is capable of creating a sound effect without having to worry about changes in parameters such as the beat of the input sound source. The sound-processing apparatus comprises: a delay unit DB that generates at least one or more new synchronized sound signal that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070256545 - Portable moving-picture multimedia player and microphone-type apparatus for accompanying music video: Disclosed are a portable multimedia player detachably coupled in a microphone case and a microphone-type video-song accompaniment apparatus. The apparatus includes a microphone case and a portable moving picture multimedia player. The microphone case has a head part in which an external microphone is installed, a grip part having a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070256548 - Music information calculation apparatus and music reproduction apparatus: Provided is a music information calculation apparatus capable of recognizing a structure of a piece of music based on an acoustic signal of the piece of music. Provided are an acoustic signal input means for inputting the acoustic signal of the piece of music; an acoustic parameter calculation means for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070256551 - Method and apparatus for sensing and displaying tablature associated with a stringed musical instrument: A system and method of enhancing guitar instruction based on Tablature Plus encoding of playing techniques within a MIDI file or other data structure, that may be rendered on an associated player application that provides multimedia output of the piece being played including a number of playing techniques. The system... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20070251373 - Percussion instrument: An improved percussion instrument, typically a drum (10) of whatever diameter and height, includes a cylindrical body (12) or barrel provided with a drum skin (14) secured to each of its opposite faces through respective rings (16-18) including a plurality of embossed appendixes (28) with an axial hole (30); the... Agent: Bucknam And Archer