Music inventions 03/08

20080072737 - Electronic drum pedal: The present invention relates to an apparatus for triggering electronic drums having a pedal assembly and a striking assembly spaced therefrom. The pedal assembly includes a base, a first hub body rotatably connected thereto, and an extension extending outwardly from and coupled to the first hub body. The striking assembly... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080072738 - Isomorphic solfa music notation and keyboard: A musical notation system is provided wherein equal sized pitch intervals are represented by equal sized vertical displacements on a musical staff irrespective of the key or transportation of a musical sequence. A clef symbol and diatonic scale indicators are used to indicate the positions of diatonic pitches on the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080072741 - Methods and systems for identifying similar songs: Methods and systems for identifying similar songs are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, methods for identifying similar songs are provided, the methods comprising: identifying beats in at least a portion of a song; generating beat-level descriptors of the at least a portion of the song corresponding to the beats;... Agent: Matthew T. Byrne

20080072740 - Music reproduction device, method, storage medium, and integrated circuit: An operational information obtaining section of a music reproduction device obtains operational information which corresponds to a user's operation and represents an instruction on an action of a reproduction section for reproducing data of a musical composition. A selection condition calculation section changes, during the musical composition being reproduced by... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080072743 - Automatic player accompanying singer on musical instrument and automatic player musical instrument: An automatic player piano includes a voice recognizer and a piano controller; while a user is singing a song, the voice recognizer analyzes the voice signal representative of vocal tones so as to determine the loudness and pitch of each vocal tone, and successively sends music data codes each expressing... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080066612 - Filter device and electronic musical instrument using the filter device: In a filter device, a filter coefficient calculation circuit has a parameter table. The parameter table stores a plurality of sets of filter coefficients associated with a first parameter based on a frequency and a second parameter based on respective plurality of levels representing a degree of attenuation or enhancement... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080060498 - Guitar hanger and non-mechanical locking device: A guitar hanger and non-mechanical locking device for hanging a guitar having a neck and head portion, the hanger configured for hanging a guitar from its neck portion and for minimizing inadvertent release from the hanger. The guitar hanger includes a support member and appended thereto, a set of prongs... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20080060499 - System and methodology of coordinated collaboration among users and groups: A musical workstation system produces a display presentation in one of a musical composition responsive to musical composition data and responsive to one or both of input variables and a selected operating mode. The system is comprised of (1) means to provide the musical composition data (such as local storage... Agent: Sitrick & Sitrick

20080060501 - Music data processing apparatus and method: In a storage section, there are stored a plurality of music data sets of a given first format. Reproduction definition information defines reproducing order of a group of desired music data sets among the plurality of music data sets stored in the storage section. On the basis of the reproduction... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080060503 - Performance control system, performance control apparatus, performance control method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program: A performance control apparatus which can actually reproduce performance information without a long sounding blank time period being produced even if the performance information includes information indicative of a long sounding blank time period. Performance data md-A including at least key-on event data KON and time data TIME that defines... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080060504 - System for transferring information on attribute of, for example, cd: Title information on music composition data recorded on a reproduction CD is acquired from a title information providing site and recorded on a recording MD together with composition data. A recording/reproducing apparatus (100) transmits TOC information acquired from the reproduction CD to a title information providing server (500) through a... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080053291 - Adjustable venturi for a drum: A drum which has a cylindrical drum wall with a top edge and a bottom edge. The drum also has a top head arranged about the top edge of the cylindrical drum wall; a bottom head arranged about the bottom edge of the cylindrical drum wall; the top head, the... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC