Music inventions 02/08

20080047416 - Stringed musical instrument device: A stringed musical instrument device that functions as a peripheral for a computer or computing device, whereby electronic transducers placed inside and/or outside the instrument convert the vibrations of the strings and/or the instrument body from an analog electrical signals to digital signals. The digital signals are then transmitted via... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080041217 - Method for teaching music: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for teaching music to one or more students. The instructor's manual operation of a musical instrument controls in real-time the illumination of guide lamps on each student's musical instrument. This allows the students to visually connect the note to be... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080041218 - System and method for teaching an instrumental or vocal portion of a song: A recording of a lesson on how to play an instrumental portion of a song that has a plurality of song sections and the one or more of the song sections contains the instrumental portion. The lesson comprises instructions how to play the instrumental portion for each song section, and... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080041219 - Sound output device, control method for sound output device, and information storage medium: To provide a sound output device capable of preferably outputting, while utilizing control data created based on an assumption that sound data will be output via a certain number of speakers, the sound data via a number of speakers that is larger or smaller than the certain number. The main... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080034940 - Bridge system for improved acoustic coupling in stringed instruments: A bridge system for connection to the instrument body of a stringed instrument, the bridge system including at least one bridge piece configured to contact at least one string of the stringed instrument and a ramp-shaped height and tone adjustment bar between the bridge piece and the instrument body. An... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080034941 - Single vertex damped cable tailpiece for bowed string instruments: One aspect of the present patent application is a musical instrument comprising a body, a bridge, a plurality of strings, a plurality of separate cables, a single cable, and a saddle. The plurality of strings extends from a first side to a second side of the bridge. Each of the... Agent: James Marc Leas

20080034942 - Pythagorean fret placement: The method provides luthiers of fretted instrument with a novel approach for installing frets with increased accuracy. The method is an improvement in calculation of fret placement over the “Rule of 18” because it relies on the length of the vibrating string. This method is more pronounced at the end... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080034946 - User controls for synthetic drum sound generator that convolves recorded drum sounds with drum stick impact sensor output: Methods and apparatus for simulating the sound of a specific percussion instrument. A first stored waveform representative of the impulse response of the specific percussion instrument is convolved with a second waveform representating of the vibrations produced when a playing surface is struck, scraped or rubbed by a hand-held implement... Agent: Charles G. Call

20080034949 - Musical tone control apparatus and method: There is provided a musical tone control apparatus that enables a user to easily play a musical instrument without spoiling the user's feeling that he is actually playing a musical instrument. A storage device stores musical piece data containing interval data indicative of intervals of musical tones constituting a musical... Agent: Honda R&d Americas, Inc.

20080028911 - Audio device having dense sound enhancing component: A musical instrument having strings, a wooden body and a granite veneer bonded to the wooden body. The granite has a density of at least 1.7 thousand kilograms per cubic meter and optionally can have a thickness in the range from about 4/64th of an inch to 44/64th of an... Agent: Edward M. Livingston, Pa

20080028919 - Assistive apparatus and computer-readable medium storing computer program for playing music: An assistive music playing apparatus plays a music piece with musically acceptable notes even when the player inputs musically unacceptable notes. The apparatus provides a chord progression pattern, and comprises a note conversion device. A chord progression pattern defines a series of chords, which are presented one after another in... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.