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20130145919 - Tone control device for use with a musical instrument and method for making the same: A tone control device is provided. The tone control device includes a weight assembly including at least a first magnet and a second magnet magnetically attracted to the first magnet, wherein the first magnet is positionable on a first surface of the bridge and the second magnet is positionable on... Agent:

20130145920 - Water leakage prevention tool, saxophone, and wind instrument: A saxophone includes a roughly U-shaped first pipe 13 communicating with a bell 11, a second pipe 15 communicating with the first pipe 13, a mouthpiece 21, and a neck 17, and a water guiding means 40 is provided between the mouthpiece 21 and the first pipe 13 to guide... Agent: Backs Verse Co., Ltd.

20130145921 - Drum and drum-set tuner: Provided are systems and methods for resonance tuning. A signal is received in response to a resonance of a structure. A frequency or musical note related to an overtone is determined from the signal. The frequency or musical note related to the overtone is selected as a filter mode reference... Agent: Overtone Labs, Inc.

20130145922 - Signal processing device: A signal processing device is designed to automatically calculate a transfer characteristic representing sound-box resonance of a guitar due to acoustic excitation of vibration which may occur due to white noise. White noise emitted toward the guitar causes vibration propagating via strings so as to produce an audio signal via... Agent: Yamaha Corporation

20130145923 - Musical tone control device, system and process: A musical tone control device capable of generating a hi-hat sound intended by the performer operates such that, when striking surface position information corresponds to a first position, instructions are provided to stop generating a musical tone with a first timbre (or that satisfies another predetermined condition), when the striking... Agent: Roland Corporation

20130139668 - Ergonomic guitar: An ergonomic electric guitar includes a neck frets, a plurality of strings, and a body. The body includes a bridge having a nominal string anchor point for the strings, an upper bass bout including a front strap attachment mechanism having a front strap attachment point that is disposed within a... Agent:

20130139669 - Master sound post gauge: This invention provides new means for measuring the length of sound post required in a musical instrument such as violin, viola or cello. It also provides means to measure the angle at each end of the sound post, thus to ensure firm contact with belly and back of the sound... Agent:

20130139670 - Adjuster for string instruments: An adjuster for tuning of a string instrument.... Agent: Gotoh Gut Co., Ltd.

20130139671 - Drum and method for tuning and making a drum: A drum having a vibratory member(s) tensioned over a plurality of tuned staves which acts as a sounding board and having staves which may be joined together with one or more flexible lines. The invention also includes a method of making such a drum and includes variations in the bearing... Agent:

20130139672 - Drum and drum-set tuner: Provided are systems and methods for resonance tuning. A signal is received in response to a resonance of a structure. A frequency or musical note related to an overtone is determined from the signal. The frequency or musical note related to the overtone is selected as a filter mode reference... Agent: Overtone Labs, Inc.

20130139674 - Musical fingerprinting: A method for fingerprinting an unknown music sample is disclosed. A plurality of known tracks may be segmented into reference samples. A reference fingerprint including a plurality of codes may be generated for each reference sample. An inverted index including, for each possible code value, a list of reference samples... Agent:

20130139673 - Musical fingerprinting based on onset intervals: Methods, computing devices, and machine readable storage media for generating a fingerprint of a music sample. The music sample may be filtered into a plurality of frequency bands. Onsets in each of the frequency bands may be independently detected. Inter-onset intervals between pairs of onsets within the same frequency band... Agent:

20130133503 - Plectra with wear indicator and related methods: A pick that may have: a first layer or core that is configured with a first color; a second layer or coating configured with a second color; and, wherein said second color visually contrasts with the first color. Operably, the coating or second layer may be abraded whenever the pick... Agent:

20130133504 - Isolation rings for use with musical instruments and equipment: A resilient isolation ring member is provided for reducing a transfer of energy from a percussion instrument to a support surface supporting a percussion instrument. The isolation ring member comprises a donut-shaped main body having a top surface and a bottom surface; and a central aperture provided in the donut-shaped... Agent:

20130133505 - Musical instrument carrier and related methods: A body-supportable musical-instrument carrier, comprises a rigid frame substantially conforming to shoulder and upper back regions of a user; a belly plate; first mounting members mountable on the belly plate for securing the belly plate to the rigid frame; and second mounting members mountable on the belly plate for securing... Agent:

20130133506 - Composition device and methods of use: A composition tool including a memory capable of storing data and a processor is provided. The processor is configured for using the data such that the composition tool can provide a score interface and a plurality of instrument interfaces, wherein each instrument interface comprising a graphical representation of an instrument... Agent:

20130133507 - 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:

20130125727 - Double keyboard piano system: A double keyboard piano system is provided. The double keyboard piano system may include a first automatic player piano, a second automatic player piano, and a double keyboard console including a first keyboard and a second keyboard mounted above the first keyboard. The first automatic player piano is in communication... Agent: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

20130125728 - Shoulder support: The invention relates to a shoulder support for a bowed instrument having a support element for placing on the shoulder and/or chest of the player. To that end, there is provision according to the invention for the support element of the shoulder support to be produced from a thermoplastic material.... Agent: Gustav Pirazzi & Comp. Kg

20130125729 - Hybrid drum: A hybrid drum as described combines the characteristics of both acoustic and electronic percussion apparatus enabling a musician to have a single instrument and have either acoustic or electronic output. A hybrid drum includes a multilayer drum head with a built-in FSR sensor such that the FSR drum head replaces... Agent: Miditronix, LLC

20130125730 - System and apparatus for adjusting the tonal output of a membranophone: The present invention is a system for modifying the tonal output of a hand drum. The system includes the use of a tonal cover or membrane to change the sound emitted when the head of a hand drum is struck. Additional tuning pads are then added to further modify the... Agent:

20130125731 - Tool for performing work to correct arc of fret, fret board or finger board and adjustment at once with strings of stringed instrument attached: Provided is a tool for simultaneously correcting a radius of curvature of frets, a fretboard or a fingerboard of a stringed instrument and leveling the frets while strings are on the stringed instrument. In order to introduce the strings of the stringed instrument inside the tool, the tool includes grooves,... Agent:

20130125732 - Methods to create new melodies and music from existing source: Given an existing piece of music, represented in any form such as midi, sound frequencies, etc, but most notably in the form of sheet music and musical scores and music-xml, methods can be applied to the existing music to create an entirely new sound. While the traditional transposition of music... Agent:

20130125733 - Musical sound generator and method for generating musical sound based on element data: In a musical sound generator that generates plural element tones based on plural pieces of element data and generates a musical sound by combining the generated element tones, a selector selects, upon detecting a sound generation control event, one or more pieces of element data among the plural pieces of... Agent: Yamaha Corporation

20130125734 - Musical sound generator and method for generating musical sound based on element data: In a musical sound generator that generates plural element tones based on plural pieces of element data and generates a musical sound by combining the generated element tones, a selector selects, upon detecting a sound generation control event, one or more pieces of element data among the plural pieces of... Agent: Yamaha Corporation

20130125735 - Cymbal pickup and stand provided with the same: A cymbal pickup is described, including a sensor detecting the vibration of the cymbal, and a sensor attaching part to which the sensor is attached. The cymbal has, through its center, a hole that allows a rod to be inserted through. The sensor attaching part includes: a first abutting part... Agent: Roland Corporation

20130125736 - Musical effects foot control: a roller rotatably mounted in the housing, a roller surface portion exposed and extending away from the housing for contact by a foot, to enable rotation of the roller by the foot; and, circuitry within the base connectable with the instrument and operable in response to rotation of the roller,... Agent: