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Music October categorized by USPTO classification 10/11

20110259169 - Movable part firmly equipped with balance weight, musical instrument and method of assembling balance weight therein: Keys of a piano are depressed against the total weight of associated action units and hammers so that balance weight pieces are embedded in the front portion of each key; since the wood bar of the key is expandable and shrinkable due to the conditions of the environment, the weight... Agent: Yamaha Corporation

20110259170 - Sound post inserting / removing tool: Violin Sound Post inserting tool with a handle having a spring type clamp attached at right angle. One half of the clamp has a groove or cradle into which sound post is placed. The second half is a spring plate which secures the Sound Post in the clamp. After the... Agent:

20110259171 - Stringed instrument string action adjustment: A stringed musical instrument comprises of a headstock with tuners, a neck having a fretboard, a body having a top and back, a saddle with a bridge secured to the body and one or more strings stretched from the headstock over the neck, fretboard, and over a portion of the... Agent:

20110259172 - Tremolo assembly of stringed instrument: A stringed instrument defines a hollow volume in an interior of the stringed instrument and includes at least one string. Operation of a tremolo assembly of the stringed instrument is adapted to vary tension in the string. The tremolo assembly comprises a tone block disposed within the hollow volume and... Agent:

20110259173 - Hands-free percussion instrument and related methods: Disclosed are apparatus and related methods for producing a blend of rhythm and sound.... Agent:

20110259174 - Carrier for percussion instruments: A carrier for use by a person to carry a device extending outwardly from said person. The carrier preferably having an abdominal plate with a pair of support members extending from the abdominal plate, around the waistline of the person, continuing up the back and along the thoracic portion of... Agent:

20110259175 - Internal microphone support system for percussion instruments: An internal support device comprising horizontal and vertical straps and a plurality of mounting devices for positioning and isolating acoustic microphones interior to a percussion instrument. The vertical straps are rubber or similar shock absorbing material, arranged in a rectangular pattern and secured at their ends to a percussion instrument... Agent:

20110259176 - Musical instruction and assessment systems: The invention relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for assessing a musical performance. The musical performance can include a user's performance of a musical instrument. MIDI or audio notes are input and compared to the notes of a music track. An indication is provided to assess the musical performance. The... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110259177 - Variable gain and timing reference methods of separating and mixing audio tracks from original, musical works: The teachings described herein are generally directed to a system, method, and apparatus for separating and mixing tracks within music. The system can comprise components including a processor, an input device, a database, a transformation module, an emulation recording module, an integration engine, an output module, and an output device,... Agent:

20110259178 - Machine and method for teaching music and piano: A system for teaching music with input and output devices, musical representations presented on vertically and horizontally oriented musical staffs, output responsive to selective application of input data, confirmation of propriety of input choice, and scrolling presentation of sequential musical representations constituting music. A method to develop a positive association... Agent:

20110259179 - Method for recognizing note patterns in pieces of music: Method for recognizing similarly recurring patterns of notes in a piece of music containing note sequences distributed among parallel channels, the method having the steps of: a) repeatedly segmenting each channel and, for each type of segmentation, determining segments which are similar to one another and storing the latter in... Agent:

20110259180 - Guitar pickup assembly: A guitar pickup assembly which would allow a guitar player to blend the sound of two or more pickups smoothly as the player desires via the use of a foot pedal. The guitar pickup assembly includes a guitar separately providing the output from a first pickup and a second pickup... Agent:

20110252940 - Vibration apparatus and method for seasoning stringed musical instruments: Apparatus and method for seasoning stringed musical instruments comprises an electric vibration generator coupled to a string cradle. The string cradle is detachably attachable to the strings of the instrument through a plurality of flanges extending between the strings.... Agent: Tonerite, Inc.

20110252941 - Fix-mounted guitar bridge: Disclosed is a guitar bridge having a body comprised of a main base plate and a tone device. The bridge main base plate mounts flush to the guitar main body upper surface by a plurality of coupling screws. The bridge tone device extends perpendicular to the underside surface of main... Agent:

20110252942 - Method of manufacturing pick for stringed instrument: A pick for a string instrument is manufactured by the use of a hot stamp press. A pick blank is mounted on a support surface of the press with a front side of the pick blank disposed upwardly. A heated die head is moved against the front side of the... Agent:

20110252943 - Automatic drum tuner: Methods and systems for automatically tuning a drum are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods and systems include the following: (a) exciting a drum head to cause it to resonate; (b) sensing a vibration frequency at one or more points relative to each tension rod; (c) determining a global average... Agent:

20110252945 - Method of studying an isolated audio track from an original, multi-track recording using variable gain control: The teachings described herein are generally directed to a system, method, and apparatus for studying music. The system can comprise components including a processor, an input device, a database, a transformation module, an emulation recording module, an integration engine, an output module, and an output device, wherein each component is... Agent:

20110252944 - System for learning an isolated instrument audio track from an original, multi-track recording through variable gain control: The teachings described herein are generally directed to a system, method, and apparatus for learning music through an educational audio track embodied on a computer readable medium. The system can comprise components including a processor, an input device, a database, a transformation module, an emulation recording module, an integration engine,... Agent:

20110252946 - Manipulative system for teaching musical notation: Progressive systems and methods for enabling music students to easily notate the pitch and/or rhythm of musical compositions using three-dimensional manipulative members representing musical notation symbols. The members are adapted to removably affix to a workspace, such as a magnetic white board surface to notate a musical composition.... Agent:

20110252947 - Apparatus and method for classifying, displaying and selecting music files: At an apparatus (200), which may be a consumer electronic device, the user may select a predetermined number of different music attributes (Attr) descriptive of a mood delivered by music represented by music content of a music file. From parameters of a music file available in the apparatus (200), the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110252948 - System for separating and mixing audio tracks within an original, multi-track recording: The teachings described herein are generally directed to a system, method, and apparatus for learning music through an educational audio track embodied on a computer readable medium. The system can comprise components including a processor, an input device, a database, a transformation module, an emulation recording module, an integration engine,... Agent:

20110252949 - Simulating several instruments using a single virtual instrument: A media application for providing outputs (e.g., audio outputs) in response to inputs received from an input device is provided. The media application may connect input mechanisms of an input device with parameters of channel strips (e.g., which may define output sounds) using an intermediate screen object. The media application... Agent:

20110252951 - Real time control of midi parameters for live performance of midi sequences: A computer-implemented method for real time control of a MIDI beat clock includes moving a hand-held device to create movement signals, transmitting the movement signals to a computer device, analyzing the movement signals with a computer device, and controlling a MIDI beat clock according to the analyzed movement signals.... Agent: Leavitt And Zabriskie LLC

20110252950 - System and method for forming and rendering 3d midi messages: MIDI-generated audio streams or other input streams of audio events are perceptually associated with specific locations in 3D space with respect to the listener. A conventional pan parameter is redefined so that it no longer specifies the relative balance between the audio being fed to two fixed speaker locations. Instead,... Agent: Creative Technology Ltd

20110247474 - Rotatable combination guitar/bass guitar: A combination stringed musical instrument, such as a four string electric bass and a six string electric guitar, is described. The combination stringed musical instrument includes a single neck portion with opposed fret boards formed or disposed on either side or major face of the neck portion. Accessibility to either... Agent:

20110247475 - Stick of string instrument bow, string instrument bow and methods of manufacturing stick of string instrument bow: A stick of a string instrument bow includes a base material having an arched-rod shaped carbon fiber resin layer made of carbon fiber resin and a glass fiber resin layer which covers the outer surface of the carbon fiber resin layer and is made of glass fiber resin, and the... Agent: Yamaha Corporation

20110247476 - Percussion device: The present invention is a percussion device to be utilized with a percussion tool, such as a drum stick. The percussion device comprises a support structure and a percussion accessory. The device provides for creating musical sounds in addition to the sounds created by the percussion tool.... Agent:

20110247477 - Drumstick: A drumstick comprises an elongated rigid body having a front section, a shaft section and a handle section. The front section is made of wooden or bamboo materials and has a top end and a distal end. A striking tip is mounted on the top end. The handle section is... Agent:

20110247478 - Methods and apparatus for transmitting finger positions to stringed instruments having a light-system: The invention provides systems and methods of for displaying on a second instrument finger positions that were played on a first instrument. A teacher, for example, can play notes and/or chords on a first stringed instrument having a sensor. A processing having a decoder and a message generator can receive... Agent: Optek Music Systems, Inc.

20110247479 - Chord training and assessment systems: The invention relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for assessing a musical performance of a chord, a chord series, or a chord progression. The performance can include a user's performance of a musical instrument. MIDI or audio notes are input and compared to the notes of music track. An indication... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110247480 - Polyphonic note detection: Processor-implemented methods and systems for polyphonic note detection are disclosed. The method includes converting a portion of a polyphonic audio signal from a time domain to a frequency domain. The method includes detecting a fundamental frequency peak in the frequency domain. The method then detects a defined number of integer-interval... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110239841 - Stringed musical instrument convertible between fretted and fretless playing configurations: A stringed musical instrument that is convertible between fretted and fretless playing configurations includes a body, a neck connected to the body at one of its ends, a fingerboard disposed on the neck, a plurality of movable frets spaced apart at positions along the fingerboard, a plurality of strings disposed... Agent:

20110239842 - 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:

20110239843 - Unified octave/register key and vent for musical wind instruments: Apparatus and methods for its use are provided that relate to an octave/register key for musical wind instruments that combines (i) a vent formed by alignment of an opening of a core and a sidewall aperture of a sleeve, wherein the core is slidably and coaxially mounted within the sleeve,... Agent:

20110239844 - Instrument support apparatus: At least one embodiment of the inventive technology may be a support apparatus that includes at least two item support rails (2) supported by support legs (5) coupled thereto by pivot coupler apparatus (18) that enable rotatable motion of a coupled support rail about a substantially vertical axis (13), where... Agent: Swift Distribution, Inc. D/b/a Ultimate Support Systems

20110239845 - Musical score display apparatus and program for realizing musical score display method: There is provided a musical score display apparatus which can display a musical score at multiple levels ranging from a partial part to all parts and can display a comment relating to the displayed musical score based on the creation date and time, and a program for realizing a musical... Agent: Yamaha Corporation

20110239846 - Musical tone control system for electronic keyboard instrument: The musical tone control system 20 detects first key depression information S1 on a key 3 at a first position P1 corresponding to a key depression depth obtained before start of a let-off, second key depression information S2 on the key 3 at a second position P2 which corresponds to... Agent:

20110239847 - Electronic drumsticks system: A portable system for drumming is provided that simulates a full drum kit. In one implementation, a system is provided that can digitally simulate a full drum kit without the need for actual drums. The system can include electronic drumsticks that can transmit digitally sampled drum sounds (e.g., snare, kick... Agent:

20110239848 - Electronic musical instrument: Embodiments of the invention provide an electronic musical instrument. The electronic musical instrument comprises a base and a switch array disposed on the base. The switch array comprises multiple contacts disposed on the base and multiple strings suspended over the contacts. The array is configured to generate input signals by... Agent: