Music inventions 04/08

20080092719 - Shoulder marching tuba: A shoulder marching tuba having a compact slide arrangement for instrument spot tuning. The shoulder marching tuba includes an air inlet mouthpiece, an air outlet bell, and a series of airflow tubing and valves in fluid communication therebetween. The series of airflow tubing and valves include at least four pairs... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080092718 - Shoulder marching tuba with view left: A shoulder marching tuba having an arrangement of air flow tubing that defines a viewing region or viewing window to provide a musician playing the tuba with a relatively unobstructed view left through the tuba while marching.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080092720 - Key actuating system: A key actuating system (1) of a keyboard musical instrument is provided which helps quickly push the keys by reducing reaction force with respect to force of pushing the keys during manual operation, and which supports a person having less strength to play the keyboard musical instrument. The key actuating... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20080092724 - Transducer and stringed musical instrument including the same: A transducer includes a piezoelectric element attached to a stringed musical instrument with an adhesive layer, and at least one intermediate layer provided in a thickness-wise middle portion of the adhesive layer and made of a material different from a material of the adhesive layer. The transducer has a mounting... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080087157 - Musical instrument and supporting system incorporated therein for music players: A supporting system is provided on a saxophone for offering assistance to the player, and includes pressure sensors monitoring the touch pieces of the keys, power assisting units equipped with torque motors provided for the keys and a controller connected to the pressure sensors and the power assisting units; a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080087160 - Method and apparatus for teaching music and for recognizing chords and intervals: A method for teaching musical theory wherein each note of the chromatic scale is associated with one of three markings, preferably incorporating three distinct colors, making a repeating pattern up and down the musical scale. The preferred colors are silver, black, and gold. Some instruments are adapted to use with... Agent: Burleson Cooke L.L.P.

20080083314 - Key actuating apparatus and key actuation control system: In order to realize a small and light key actuating apparatus for actuating a key which is rotatably supported with respect to a frame, a key actuating apparatus (7) is provided which includes a polymer transducer (9) for rotatably moving the key (3) by using a deformation of the transducer,... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20080083318 - Method and system for synthesizing electronic transparent audio: A method and system for synthesizing electronic watermarks is disclosed. The method includes generating electronic watermark sounds for music data by converting harmonic overtones that match the music data into signals. The generated electronic watermark sounds are then synthesized into the music data. The synthesized electronic watermark sounds and the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080078280 - Compressed data structure and apparatus and method related thereto: Compressed waveform data structure is proposed which is suited for segmentation of a plurality of samples of compressed waveform data into a plurality of frames and subsequent storage of each of the frames. The number of bits per sample of the compressed waveform data is variable between the frames, but... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080078281 - Musical performance self-training apparatus: The apparatus of the present invention improves training efficiency, and monotonous repetition of training is avoided. A unit acceptance judgment section (4) judges whether all performance of the units in the current rank have reached an acceptable standard or not. When all performance is accepted, a unit in an upper... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP