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Music September class, title,number 09/10

20100242703 - Violin shoulder cradle: A violin shoulder cradle is provided which provides for compact storage and for adjustment of the position of the violin to which the cradle is clamped relative to the shoulder of the wearer. The shoulder cradle hereof includes a base including a pair of clamping legs which are pivotally mounted... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20100242704 - Peg for stringed instrument: The mounting position of a winding shaft on a main body is changed, and a peg may be mounted in various stringed instruments by miniaturizing the main body or reducing the thickness thereof. The peg for the stringed instrument includes a main body mounted in the stringed instrument; a worm... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20100242705 - String clamping plate alignment tool for double locking tremolo: An alignment tool comprises a tongue and a handle attached to a handle stem. The tongue includes a prying tip disposed at an angle to a long axis of the handle stem. The size and shape of the prying tip are well suited for freeing a jammed string clamping plate... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20100242706 - Comb: Comb (1) for a wind instrument, in particular a harmonica, comprising a plurality of cavities (2) forming channels, the comb (1) being constructed from a plurality of thin strips (3) glued together, which extend with a longitudinal dimension (4) along a width (5) of the comb (1) and are cut... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100242707 - Strainer and snare drum: A strainer includes a strainer bodpy, a slider to which a cam follower is fixed, a holder to which snare wires are fixed, an operating lever, and a cam that is pivoted through operation of the operating lever. The slider is slid relative to the strainer body by pivoting the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20100242709 - Interactive game providing instruction in musical notation and in learning an instrument: A musical keyboard is connected to a computer. The computer implements a graphical user interface for teaching users to play the musical instrument. A computer readable music file, such as a MIDI file, is used to drive the creation of game objects that travel from a point of origination along... Agent: Jason P. Webb

20100242708 - Music notation system: The invention relates to a music notation system that obviates the need for one to have any knowledge of conventional music notation in order to play a keyboard, including those that are a component of a conventional musical instrument, those that are a component of an electronic musical instrument and... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP/los Angeles

20100242710 - Tone signal creating apparatus and method: In the case where an automatic reading file composed of plural kinds of detailed parameters stored in a transportable storage device whose attachment is detected has been already read in an apparatus, it is determined whether update, to a currently-read automatic reading file, of an automatic reading file stored in... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20100242711 - method, circuit and system for interfacing with an electronic device: According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a device, system and method for interfacing with an electronic appliance, including a sound generator. According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided an array of pulsed radiation emitters and/or sensors, wherein each emitter/sensor of the... Agent: Professional Patent Solutions

20100242712 - Music processing system including device for converting guitar sounds to midi commands: A device is disclosed for converting guitar sounds to MIDI commands. The device has 7 microcontrollers. Each guitar string's oscillations are filtered and amplified with input filters and input amplifiers. The conditioned string signal is directed to an input of an associated microcontroller and converted to a MIDI command. Each... Agent: Cardinal Law Group, LLC

20100242713 - Acoustic drum set amplifier device specifically calibrated for each instrument within a drum set: An acoustic drum set amplifier specifically calibrated for each instrument within a drum set, specifically a snare drum, a bass drum, a bongo drum, tom-tom drum, a hi-hat, ride cymbal and crash cymbals, for optimizing the sound frequency of the instrument. In operation, an artist using the device might be... Agent: Ruben Alcoba, Esq.

20100236373 - Clamping ball end for musical strings: This invention relates to a ball-ender apparatus for securing to a pre-selected length wire by passing through the apparatus and being secured by a precision screw from which the wire receives medial pressure locking the wire in place. Without an expensive winding machine or winding of wire or even modifications... Agent: Garry Goodman

20100236375 - Magnetic bridges and tailpieces for stringed instruments: Improved bridges and tailpieces for stringed instruments, such as guitars and banjos. The bridge and tailpiece each include a void at each end of their respective base pieces, near the vertical hole or slot, into which is fixedly set a permanent magnet. The magnet attracts to the ferromagnetic metal bridge... Agent: Nexus Law Group LLP

20100236374 - Tailpiece for a musical instrument: In general, the present invention provides a tailpiece for a musical instrument. Among other things, the tailpiece includes a treble side, a bass side, and a surface topography (i.e., along its bottom surface) causes the tailpiece to twist/rock when the bass side is brought under tension. Among other features, the... Agent: Keohane & D'alessandro

20100236376 - Intonated nut with locking mechanism for musical instruments and methods of use: The present invention provides in combination, an intonated string nut and string-locking mechanism for a musical string instrument with a fingerboard where the combination intonated string nut and string-locking mechanism includes a string-nut fulcrum and a string-locking means, where each string-nut fulcrum may have a varying linear position in relation... Agent: Leyendecker & Lemire, LLC

20100236377 - Proportional electromagnet actuator and control system: The invention provides an actuator for actuating a pallet of a pipe organ under the command of a key of an organ. The actuator comprises a movable member, adapted to be connected to the pallet of the organ pipe and a magnetic plunger, mounted on the movable member. It also... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20100236378 - Adjustable chromatic chord harmonica: An adjustable chromatic harmonica incorporating an adjustable mouthpiece where, for each mouth-hole, the player's breath may be selectively connected to one or more available reed cells. This is by means of a rotatable cup-shaped valve, with an opening or port in its side, being mounted in each mouth-hole such that... Agent: Doug Horsley

20100236379 - Valve for wind instrument: The present invention provides a valve assembly designed to regulate air flow through a musical instrument and is designed to avoid bumps typically associated with valve construction that result in distortion and other harmful effects on vibrating columns of air that pass there-through. The valve assembly comprises: a cylindrical-shaped valve... Agent: Valenti, Hanley & Robinson, PLLC

20100236380 - Vocal tuning device for microphones: A vocal tuning device for use with a microphone is provided, comprising a housing having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end includes a first connector operably matable with a microphone and capable of receiving an input signal from the microphone in response to a user's... Agent: Warner J Delaune Jr Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz

20100236382 - Footprint indication kit for percussion instruments: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to facilitating the reproducible placement of percussive instruments, such as drums, relative to one another. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a footprint indication kit for percussion instruments. The footprint indication kit comprises a set of marking strips configured to indicate a periphery of a... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20100236381 - Image processing apparatus, musical score editing method executed thereon, and storage medium storing program: An image processing apparatus that processes image data representing a musical score inputs image data of a musical score document to the image processing apparatus, detects a blank area in the musical score based on the input image data, and generates image data in which an assistance sign has been... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100236383 - Living organism controlled music generating system: A music synthesising system wherein the musical output is responsive to the normal activities of a living organism. In one example, electrical activity within the cells of a living plant is used to trigger and modulate a music synthesiser. In another example, the movements of a bird in a cage... Agent: Peter Vogel

20100236384 - Tone generation apparatus: With no interrupt to a CPU, waveform data stored in a NAND-type flash memory are read out on a page-by-page basis to supply a buffer of a waveform memory with waveform sample data. A series of waveform data are prestored in successive pages of the intermediate buffer capable of high-speed... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20100236385 - Method and apparatus for personal exercise trainer: Determining a plurality of heart rate sections for an individual, and selecting a plurality of songs, wherein each of the plurality of songs has an average beats per minute approximately equal to an average beats per minute of one of the plurality of heart rate sections, and playing the plurality... Agent: Mr. Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20100236386 - Performance apparatus and storage medium therefor: A performance apparatus capable of reproducing music pieces while making changeover between the music pieces without disturbing the rhythm of exercise, dance, or the like performed by a user to the rhythm of music. A beat position is acquired that will appear in a preceding performance data for the first... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20100236387 - Musical tone control system for grand-type piano: A musical tone control system for a grand-type piano, which not only enables a shutter to be mounted on a hammer without any inconvenience even when a space above the hammer is small, but also is capable of properly controlling musical tones to be sounded. In this system, first to... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20100236388 - Electronic musical instrument: A computer portion 70 determines main reaction force RF0 by use of a main reaction force table storing main reaction forces which vary according to the velocity and the depth of a depression of the key 11. The computer portion 70 determines first ancillary reaction force RF1 by use of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20100229707 - Automatic player piano equipped with soft pedal, automatic playing system and method used therein: An upright piano is equipped with a soft pedal, and a player makes the hammer stroke shorter by depressing the soft pedal; while a user is reproducing a music tune by means of an automatic player piano fabricated on the basis of the upright piano, the keys are servo controlled... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100229708 - Keyboard musical instrument and solenoid drive mechanism: A keyboard musical instrument has a solenoid including a plunger and a coil into which the plunger is inserted, a drive unit for applying voltage to the solenoid, and a key which moves together with the plunger, and on which a force generated by the solenoid is exerted. The drive... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20100229709 - Saxophone neck system: A saxophone neck system uses interchangeable component parts to modify and optimize sound and resistance. The saxophone neck system may allow a saxophone player the ability to change components to achieve variations in sound and to use the components with various manufacturers' instruments and mouthpieces. With the use of various... Agent: Ardean Terrance Warburton

20100229710 - Effects device controller: The invention relates to an apparatus for storing and generating sound effects with the help of analog devices (5, 6) when playing a musical instrument. The apparatus comprises one or more positioning motors (4) which can be connected to potentiometers of the analog devices (5, 6) by means of shafts... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20100229711 - Pedal device of electronic keyboard musical instrument: A pedal device of an electronic keyboard musical instrument comprises a pedal lever swingable according to a depressing manipulation and a reaction force exerting unit for exerting on the pedal lever a reaction force of an amount which depends on an amount of the swing of the pedal lever. The... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20100224049 - Guitar capo with rotatable member: The inventive subject matter which provides a capo for a stringed musical instrument comprising of a rotatable member containing at least one capo configuration which the user can select different capo configurations by turning the rotatable member either clockwise or counter-clockwise. The capo of the inventive subject matter comprising of... Agent: Ardent Law Group, P.C.

20100224050 - Self-corrective wrist positioning practice device: A self-corrective wrist positioning practice device including a planar elongated member having a two curved terminating ends with a pair of slots defined proximate each terminating end. Two adjustably securable straps are received within the pair of slots at the respective terminating ends. When oriented on the back of the... Agent: Cheryl F. Cohen

20100224051 - Electronic musical instrument having ad-lib performance function and program for ad-lib performance function: The ROM 101 stores a chord scale note table composed of a plurality of scale by 12 notes starting from a chord tone in which C note is given as a root note and arranging a chord scale note as an inverted form of a chord in which the note... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20100224052 - Signal distribution within modular structures facilitating aggregated and field-customized musical instruments: A signal distribution system for a customizable aggregated musical instrument is described. The signal distribution system interfaces with a plurality of individual musical modules secured in a mounting frame having a plurality of mounting locations, each mounting location adapted to receive an individual musical module, and includes at least one... Agent: Lester F. Ludwig

20100218661 - Wireless receiver: A wireless receiver for receiving a wireless transmitted audio signal from a wireless transmitter is provided. The wireless receiver comprises a tuning assisting unit for assisting in the tuning of a music instrument coupled to the wireless transmitter. The tuning assisting unit indicates whether the audio signal from the music... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100218662 - Drum with adjustable depth: A drum with an adjustable depth is described. The drum includes a top head, a bottom head, and a shell. The shell is constructed such that the bottom head can be moved away from the top head, creating a drum with a different depth. The shell comprises an inner and... Agent: Booth Udall, PLC

20100218663 - Music playback apparatus and method for music selection and playback: A music playback apparatus displays a music file list on a touch screen and pre-plays a music file according to a touch input. If the touch input is removed, the pre-playing may stop. The processor may identify whether the touch input is long or short key signal, and may perform... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20100218664 - Electronic music on hand portable and communication enabled devices: A portable electronic device having a screen and a numeric keypad, comprises: a sound card for processing sound signals to produce musical tones; a musical synthesizer, associated with said sound card, for electronically synthesizing musical instruments; and a user interface for interfacing said musical synthesizer to a user via said... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100218665 - Sensor for an acoustic instrument: A sensor for detecting vibrations in a soundboard of an acoustic instrument, such as an acoustic guitar. The sensor includes a brace means mounted to the soundboard of the acoustic instrument. The sensor further includes a transducer mounted on the brace means. The brace means detects vibrations in a region... Agent: Patterson Thuente Christensen Pedersen, P.A.