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Music February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/11

20110041669 - Holiday ornament having a rotating mechanism and internal music-producing mechanism: An automated ornament includes a power source coupled to a drive shaft that provides rotatory power about a drive axis. The drive shaft is coupled to a first drive gear, which engages a second idler gear such that rotation of the first gear in one direction causes the second gear... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20110041670 - Vertically aligned drum set: A drum assembly includes a first drum assembly positioned above a second drum assembly in a spaced apart relationship, where the bottom of the first drum assembly is positioned above the second drum assembly. Sound waves emanated from a playing surface of the first drum assembly impact a playing surface... Agent: ZieglerIPLaw Group, LLC.

20110041671 - Method and apparatus for composing and performing music: The present invention is method and apparatus for music performance and composition. More specifically, the present invention is an interactive music apparatus comprising actuating a signal that is transmitted to a processing computer that transmits output signals to a speaker that emits sound and an output component that performs an... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20110041672 - Method and system for midi control over powerline communications: An apparatus for processing one or more MIDI signals into a powerline format. The apparatus has an input port configured to receive a first digital signal having a MIDI format. The apparatus also has one or more powerline modules configured to process at least the digital signal in the MIDI... Agent: Ampacc Law Group, PLLC

20110041673 - Transducer saddle for stringed instrument: A string saddle system for a multi-stringed instrument includes a unitary saddle body having opposing surfaces and a top saddle portion that support tensioned strings and receive vibratory energy therefrom. The saddle body includes a plurality of integral cavities, each integral cavity in correspondence with a respective string and defining... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20110036228 - Stringed instrument improvement: P

20110036229 - Capos: A capo has a string press element with an arm and a lever clamp that are coupled to form a clamping opening. The lever clamp has an adjustment end to adjust the size of the clamping opening. A trigger is provided to implement clamping operation. The clamping opening can clamp... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20110036230 - Percussion instrument and electronic percussion instrument: A percussion instrument in which at least one drum board can be folded on a main board for easy and compact storage of the instrument. At least one arm having a free end and a proximal end is mounted at its proximal end to a part fixed relative to the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20110036231 - Musical score position estimating device, musical score position estimating method, and musical score position estimating robot: A musical score position estimating device includes an audio signal acquiring unit, a musical score information acquiring unit acquiring musical score information corresponding to an audio signal acquired by the audio signal acquiring unit, an audio signal feature extracting unit extracting a feature amount of the audio signal, a musical... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20110030529 - Extended low frequency resonant structure for drumhead: A drum fitted with drum heads features easy adjustment and variation of low-pitched sound. The drum head is formed with one or more openings to which surrounds made of material the same as or different than the drum head itself is attached for an independent and localized vibration area. Alternatively,... Agent: Leong C. Lei

20110030531 - Drum holding structure and drum held by the holding structure: A holding structure for fixing a drum 1 to a drum holding rod 9, in which an elongated plate-like holder member 3 extending circumferentially is held by, out of a plurality of bottom-side lugs 2 and 2A arranged on the bottom side of the drum 1, at least two successive... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20110030530 - Percussion instrument carrier system: A percussion instrument carrier system for carrying percussion instruments by members of a marching band. A preferred embodiment of the percussion instrument carrier system includes an interlock mechanism that provides for one of either mounting the percussion instrument onto the percussion instrument carrier or dismounting the percussion instrument from the... Agent: Douglas E. Warren Attorney At Law

20110030532 - Pedal for drum: A drum pedal includes at least: a pedal frame 2 having a base portion 20, a right and left pair of strut portions 21 and a heel portion 22; a rotation shaft 3 to which a beater 5 that beats a drumhead is mounted, and that is horizontally pivotally supported... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20110030533 - Drumstick controller: A percussion device includes a drumstick assembly and a sleeve. The drumstick assembly includes a drumstick having a base and a tip end, and a drumstick tip secured to the tip end of the drumstick, the drumstick tip including a sensor. The sleeve is disposed about at least a portion... Agent: Michael M. Gerardi

20110030534 - Dual sustain single keyboard pedal: A sustain foot pedal for sustaining a first keyboard and a second keyboard that may have first and second switches is provided. The pedal has an actuating member that may simultaneously activate both the first and second switch. A first keyboard receives a first sustain signal upon activation of the... Agent: J. Bennett Mullinax, LLC

20110030535 - Electronic input device for use with steel pans and associated methods: A device for digitizing a series of notes to be played on a pan instrument includes a processor and software installed on the processor that has a code segment adapted to display a virtual keyboard on a display device. The keyboard has a plurality of pianistically arranged keys, each key... Agent: Jacqueline E. Hartt, Ph. D. Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor & Reed, P.A.

20110030536 - Steel pan tablature system and associated methods: A device for entering, editing, and outputting representations of notes to be played on a steel pan includes a processor, a display, an input and output device, and software adapted to display a representation of a steel pan having concentric rings of note pads, receive a user selection of a... Agent: Jacqueline E. Hartt, Ph. D. Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor & Reed, P.A.

20110023683 - Capo tasto: Capo tasto for fixing on a neck of a stringed musical instrument, comprising a first arm on which a string engaging region is arranged, a second arm on which a engaging region for a neck rear side is arranged, a slide bearing for holding the first arm for displacement on... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20110023684 - Marching percussionist practice pad with structure that emulates a drum: Improvements in a drum practice pad are disclosed. The practice pad is intended for use with a mobile or shoulder mounted percussion instrument carrier or with a stand configured for use with a percussion instrument. The practice pad incorporates most or all of the geometry of a drum that is... Agent: Buhler Associates Buhler, Kirk A.

20110023685 - Portable drum: A portable drum that includes a drum head and a detachable dram shell, where the drum head may include an upper drum head and a detachable lower dram head and the dram shell may include one or more detachable sections. Once assembled, the upper drum head, the detachable lower dram... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20110023686 - Strainer, and snappy holding structure by the strainer: Intended is to provide a strainer having a switch mechanism, which is hardly rattled by a wear, which can be stably operated by a weak force, which does not load a snare assembly and which can maintain an excellent operation feel, and a snare assembly holding structure which has a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20110023687 - Adjustable folding leg for bass drum: An adjustable, foldable support leg for a bass drum has a cylindrical leg member movable longitudinally within a tubular leg member. A threaded portion of the tubular member includes apertures in which ball bearings are located. The bearings are retained in the apertures by an annular locking collar which is... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel, LLP

20110023688 - Composition device and methods of use: A system for creating a musical score may be provided. The system may include a composition tool application that is configured to provide a plurality of instrument interfaces to a user. The instrument interfaces may include a keyboard interface, a stringed instrument interface, and a percussion interface. The plurality of... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20110023690 - Hand-held music player with wireless peer-to-peer music sharing: The apparatus involves a hand-held housing with a memory for storing coded audio event data, a mechanism for downloading into the memory coded audio event data and digital-audio electronics for retrieving coded audio event data from memory, converting it to an audio signal and playing it out. In one disclosed... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20110023689 - Systems and methods for generating a game device music track from music: Game player performance information systems and methods generate game player performance information. An exemplary embodiment receives a specification of an audio track of interest; receives a specification of a musical instrument, wherein the musical instrument corresponds to an instrument simulation device that a game player operates when playing the musical... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham PLLC

20110023691 - Musical performance-related information output device, system including musical performance-related information output device, and electronic musical instrument: Provided are a musical performance-related information output device and a musical performance system capable of superimposing musical performance-related information on an audio signal without damaging the general versatility of the audio signal. The musical performance-related information output device includes a musical performance-related information acquiring section that is adapted to acquire... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20110023692 - Apparatus and method for transforming an input sound signal: An apparatus for transforming an input sound signal comprises a synthesiser which manipulates, in accordance with a manipulation parameter, a pitch deviation envelope to derive a manipulated pitch deviation envelope. A filter transforms the input sound signal from a resampling of the input sound signal with respect to the manipulated... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500