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Music June invention type 06/10

20100154615 - Casing structure of electronic musical instrument: When a middle plate is to be mounted to an accommodating section surrounded by left and right and rear side plates provided on a body section in a casing structure of a grand-piano type electronic piano, the middle plate positioned in front of the accommodating section is slid rearward, so... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20100154616 - Adjustable lever arm capo: A capo (10) for use with a stringed instrument comprises a top arm (12), lower arm (16) and a lever arm (24). The top arm (12) is adapted to extend across a fingerboard of the instrument above the strings (4), and a side arm is connected and extending at an... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20100154617 - Carrier assembly for percussion instruments: Drum hardware and drum secured thereon are preferably supported on a vest type carrier or a T-bar carrier having a plurality of separate parts removable from each other and formed of a rigid light material such as plastic or a light metal such as magnesium, aluminum or titanium. The carrier... Agent: Buhler Associates Buhler, Kirk A.

20100154618 - Playing cards for teaching music fundamentals: A set of playing cards for teaching music fundamentals through the playing of traditional card games with the set of playing cards is provided. The set of playing cards is divided into a plurality of different card groups, each card group corresponding to a different octave group and including cards... Agent: Maxey Law Offices, PLLC

20100154619 - Music transcription: Methods, systems, and devices are described for automatically converting audio input signal data into musical score representation data. Embodiments of the invention identify a change in frequency information from the audio signal that exceeds a first threshold value; identify a change in amplitude information from the audio signal that exceeds... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100154620 - Optical pickup for a musical instrument: This invention relates to an optical pickup for a musical instrument based on one or more than one Bragg grating. In one embodiment the optical pickup includes at least one Bragg grating in physical contact with a vibrating structure of the musical instrument so as to receive acoustic vibration associated... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20100147131 - Electronic keyboard instrument: An electronic keyboard instrument with a hammer action, in which a circuit board for generating electronic musical tones can be disposed at a location for easy maintenance and for effective space utilization. Front and rear bars are bridged between side plates of an instrument main body so as to extend... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20100147132 - Electronic keyboard instrument: An electronic keyboard instrument in which the efficiency of sound emission is enhanced by preventing a soundboard portion having a large vibration amplitude from being hidden by a musical score plate to make sound emission of the soundboard to be hardly hindered by the musical score plate. A musical stand... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20100147133 - Adaptable pipe instrument & methods of use thereof: Embodiments of the invention are directed to an adaptable panpipe instrument and methods of use thereof. In one embodiment, the adaptable panpipe instrument includes a collar brace with a plurality of openings. The plurality of openings may be of the same size or varying sizes and are capable of receiving... Agent: Loza & Loza LLP

20100147134 - Brass musical instruments with modifiable tonality: In a brass musical instrument having two substantially parallel adjacent braces between portions of the instrument windpath tubing, the improvement comprising a cross-brace extending in planes substantially parallel to a plane of the parallel braces and having two opposed edges each with two spaced contact regions secured to a respective... Agent: Jansson Shupe & Munger Ltd.

20100147135 - Brass-wind mouthpiece: The present invention is directed to brass-wind mouthpieces (20), and in particular brass-wind mouthpieces (20) configured for improved performance and endurance. One aspect of the invention provides that the lateral shoulders (38) of the mouthpiece (20) rim (24), which respectively would face the corners of the musician's lips when the... Agent: Mr. Michael J. Roman Clark Wilson LLP

20100147136 - Angle adjusting structure for high-hat cymbals: An angle adjusting structure adapted to a high-hat stand supporting the high-hat cymbals is constituted of a receiving member supporting high-hat cymbals, a first thread attached to the receiving member, a second thread which engages with the first thread and which is revolved to move the first thread up/down so... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100147137 - Digital sound effect processing device: A digital sound effect processing device includes an analog/digital converter, a digital signal processor, and a digital/analog converter. The analog/digital converter converts analog frequency signals input by a signal input unit into digital signals to be output. The digital signal processor has one input terminal connected with the analog/digital converter... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100147138 - Flash memory based stored sample electronic music synthesizer: A flash-memory based stored-sample electronic music synthesizer enables the electronic reproduction of a large number of independent voices while accommodating the exacting demands of voice continuity, minimal note-start latency, and voice synchronicity.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100147139 - Electronic musical performance instrument with greater and deeper flexibility: An electronic musical performance instrument that provides a user with a wide array of creative choices of operating systems, sound synthesis applications, user interfaces (including those emulating the interface of a conventional musical instrument and electronic control interfaces), supporting infrastructure components such as MIDI cards, sound cards, storage devices thus... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20100139473 - Stringed instrument: It is an object to provide a stringed instrument that is configured to make it possible to improve its sound characteristic by vibrating a specific region of a table. A guitar (1) has a body (8) provided with a table (2) and the like, wherein the table (2) is equipped... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100139474 - Musical tone generating apparatus and musical tone generating program: In a musical tone generating apparatus 100, sampling waveform data sampled by a sampling inputting section 15 is, after being divided into an n-number of segments, stored in divided areas W(1) to W(n) of a sampling waveform data area SWDE, respectively. When a chord is played in which a subsequent... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20100132532 - Movable pivot bearing for changing key leverage in string keyboard instruments: A moveable key lever pivot bearing system for keyboard instruments in which the pivot bearing is provided with a longitudinal slot to enable mounting the bearing over a pivot pin disposed on a balance rail mounted within the case of the instrument. The key lever, pivot pin, and balance rail... Agent: John M. Brandt Attorney At Law

20100132533 - Pyrolytic carbon components for stringed instruments: Pyrocarbon components have been found to create richer, clearer sound when employed as bridges (19), saddles (1), nuts (2), frets (3), tuning heads (4), pegs (9) and other components which contact the strings in guitars (6, 16), violins (11) and like stringed musical instruments. Bridges/saddles and nuts of stringed instruments... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100132534 - Tuning key cover support arm: The invention relates to a protective tuner cover for the tuning section of a stringed musical instrument, such as a guitar. The tuner cover is sized to enclose the instrument headstock, or a substantial portion thereof, and includes a section that encloses and protects the tuning keys and knobs of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100132535 - Teaching system and method for stringed musical instruments: A method for teaching stringed instrument students how to play sheet music through the use of colored fingering numbers. This method assists the user in knowing which finger to use on which string as they play instrumental music. It also indicates which position their hand should be in as they... Agent: Zarian Midgley & Johnson PLLC

20100132536 - File creation process, file format and file playback apparatus enabling advanced audio interaction and collaboration capabilities: A file creation process, file format and playback device are provided that enables an interactive and if desired collaborative music playback experience for the user(s) by combining or retro-fitting an ‘original song’ with a MIDI time grid, the MIDI score of the song and other data in a synchronized fashion.... Agent: Brown Rudnick LLP