| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 084465000 | Exercising devices | 22 |
| 20090188375 | DEVICE FOR MOUTHPIECE EXERCISES FOR A WOODWIND INSTRUMENT - The invention relates to a device for mouthpiece exercises for learning to play a woodwind instrument. The device comprises a mouthpiece ( | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090211432 | KINESTHETIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT POSITION TRAINER, CORRECTOR, AND UP-MOTION MUSCLE STRENGTHENER FOR FINGERS, HANDS, WRISTS, AND ARMS, AND PRACTICE DEVICE SIMULATOR - The present invention is embodied in a position training device for kinesthetic musical instrument instruction comprising an instrument component and a bow component. The instrument component comprises a main instrument shaft oriented along a main instrument axis and having a proximal end and a distal end, a chin piece attached to the proximal end of the main instrument shaft, and an instrument orthotic grip attached to the distal end of the main instrument shaft and oriented along the main instrument axis. The instrument orthotic grip has a thumb depression, an index finger depression, a middle finger depression, a ring finger depression, and a pinkie finger depression formed thereon. The bow component comprises a main bow shaft oriented along a main bow axis and having a first end and a second end, a bow orthotic grip attached to the first end of the main bow shaft and oriented along the main bow axis, and a bow tip piece attached to the second end of the main bow shaft. The bow orthotic grip has a thumb depression, an index finger depression, a middle finger depression, a ring finger depression, and a pinkie finger depression formed thereon. The bow component can be moved substantially perpendicularly relative to the instrument component in order to simulate the playing of a stringed musical instrument. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100192751 | DEVICE TO PROMOTE THE TECHNICALLY CORRECT SPACING BETWEEN A MUSICIAN'S PALM AND THE FRET BOARD OF A GUITAR - Proper guitar fretting technique can only be achieved by the player maintaining the correct spacing between the palm of the fretting hand and the lower edge of the fret board where it meets the neck of the guitar. This spacing is difficult to achieve, and teachers spend much of their time underlining the need for musicians to maintain this spacing. The Space Trainer (“the Device”) is a teaching and practice aid that has been designed to promote the technically correct hand position for both right and left handed guitar players. Specifically the Device focuses on helping the musician to form and maintain that correct spacing between the palm of the fretting hand and the fret board of the guitar. | 08-05-2010 |
| 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 wearer's arm the device permits while simultaneously mechanically signaling improper backward wrist bending without using electronic components. The device is also repositionable from the back to the side of the arm so as to signal improper bending of the wrist sideways. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20120085220 | BRASS INSTRUMENT PRACTICE DEVICE - A brass instrument practice device ( | 04-12-2012 |
| 20130186258 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE TRAINING APPARATUS, MUSICAL PERFORMANCE TRAINING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A musical performance training apparatus of the present invention receives an input of a note of a musical sound; stores a keying frequency received during a predetermined unit time to be associated with a practice status variable (such as a single-hand partial practice); evaluates motivation change of a user based on the keying frequency stored for every identical practice status variable; evaluates a musical performance technique level change of a user based on the keying frequency stored for every identical practice status variable; and generates advice based on the motivation change thus evaluated and the musical performance level change for every practice status variable. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130205975 | Method for Giving Feedback on a Musical Performance - A method is presented that allows feedback to be given on a musical performance without restrictions on the performance in terms of quality of intonation, tempo, or specific note order. Based on standard musical exercises, the ability to rate a performance is tolerant to repeated and/or omitted notes, to varying tempo and to systematic tuning errors. The method is suitable for use on mobile devices and may provide real-time feedback to allow the performer to adjust their performance or monitor their progress during the performance. Since a wide range of proficiency is able to be rated to give an indication of how well the performer executed a musical exercise this allows very inexperienced musicians to feel a sense of accomplishment when practicing outside the teaching environment as well as giving more accomplished musicians the feedback they need for continuous improvement. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130312587 | Enhancement to the Private Study of Musical Performance - A method is presented that selects a musical exercise to be performed by a student based on the assessment of previous performances of musical exercises within a syllabus. The musical exercises within the syllabus that have been performed more poorly are more likely to be selected. This enables the student to practice the exercises that are most in need of practice without having to wait for feedback on progress from a teacher and thus accelerates the learning process. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140041511 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EXERCISE IN PLAYING A MUSIC INSTRUMENT - A system and method for providing exercise in playing a music instrument. With prior art solutions there is a common problem of inadequate motivation of the user to continue practicing, and inadequate learning of items which are difficult for a specific user. The present solution detects characteristics of the user's play detected and uses them to provide a suitable program of exercises and to provide feedback which enhances motivation of the user. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140076123 | PRACTICE TIME CALCULATING APPARATUS, A PRACTICE TIME CALCULATING METHOD, AND A COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus is provided, for calculating a practice time. The apparatus is used by a user to calculate such practice time that he/she requires to improve his/her playing technique to reach a predetermined progressing level at the playing technique. In the apparatus, a progressing-level evaluating unit evaluates a progressing level of a playing technique of the user who operates a playable unit. A history of the evaluated progressing level is recorded in a progressing-level recording unit. An operation-number counting unit counts the number of operations executed on the playable unit by the user every unit time. A history of the counted number of operations is recorded in an operation-number recording unit. A practice-time calculating unit calculates the practice time based on the history of the progressing level recorded in the progressing-level recording unit and the history of the number of operations recorded in the operation-number recording unit. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140260900 | Persistent Instrument - Disclosed is a musical instrument including a persistent memory, persistent clock, a device connection interface and one or more processors configured to send a practice session alert message to remind a user that a practice session is scheduled. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150053064 | WIND INSTRUMENT TRAINING DEVICE - A wind instrument training device is provided having a housing with a mouthpiece opening in one end and an air exit opening in an opposite end. The device also has two sliding members movable within the housing, each having an air passage and each extending through opposite side openings in the housing. The sliding members are connectable to each other by a biasing means. When the training device is inserted in a wind player's mouth with the sliding members placed against the sides of the player's mouth, air blown from the player's mouth is prevented from flowing through the device. When the wind player tightens muscles against the sliding members, the sliding members move inward and air blown from the player's mouth flows through the mouthpiece opening, the air passages, and the air exit opening. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150053065 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT PRACTICE DEVICE AND SYSTEM - The present invention extends to practice devices and systems for practicing to play stringed instruments. An electronic stringed instrument practice device can be configured to perform one or more of the following: detect when finger positions and/or string to fret contact on a finger or fret board forms an appropriate musical note or musical chord, visually indicate appropriate positions on a finger or fret board for forming a musical note or musical chord, and detect when strings have been selected (e.g., strummed). The electronic stringed instrument practice device can emit sound in the form of musical notes and chords. The electronic stringed instrument practice device can include communication modules for communicating with other computing devices, including mobile phones and tablets. The electronic stringed instrument practice device can interact with applications on other computing devices to further assist users in learning how to play a stringed musical instrument. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150122109 | STRINGLESS BOWED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Bowing platforms are disclosed for use in playing a bowed musical instrument without reliance on strings. A bowing platform includes a support and a track that replace the strings, bridge, and tailpiece on a conventional bowed instrument, to provide an alternative vibrational bowing surface. The bowing platform can be attached to a conventional fingerboard or to the body of the instrument. In one aspect, the bowing platform is useful as a bow guide to improve bow technique by restricting the player's bow angle to be within a desirable range, while still allowing for natural arm movement. The bowing platform can be further equipped with piezoelectric sensors to sense bowing motion and to create sound electronically in response to the sensed motion. A stringless bowed instrument includes a bowing platform, bowing sensors, and pitch sensors that sense finger placement along the fingerboard. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150310841 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING USE ACCURACY OF PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS | 10-29-2015 |
| 20160071429 | Method of Presenting a Piece of Music to a User of an Electronic Device - A method of presenting music to a user of an electronic device comprises the step of providing score data representing the musical score of the piece of music in a graphical representation, audio data representing a recording of the piece of music, and music data representing one or more parts of parts of the piece of music in a digital format such as MIDI or MusicXML. The music data representing a part of the music that has been selected by the user is transformed into part sound signals using a sound generator. The part sound signals and audio sound signals are merged so as to obtain a merged sound signal in which the piece of music as represented by the music data file and by the audio data file are synchronized. Finally, and simultaneously, the sound of the piece of music using the merged sound signal is played audibly, the musical score is displayed on a display, and a sub-portion of the musical score corresponding to a passage of the piece of music which is presently audible is highlighted on the display. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160140863 | Disc jockey table simulation apparatus and related methods - A DJ table simulation apparatus that allows a DJ to practice different turntablism and scratching techniques without the use of a full turntable, mixer, and DJ equipment set up. The DJ table simulation apparatus is a portable tool that provides a platform for DJs to build up muscle memory and perfect the manipulation of vinyl records and sliders back and forth without requiring the use of electric powered turntables and mixer. The DJ table simulation apparatus is comprised of a modified turntable platter, a modified vinyl record, crossfader channels, and volume channels. | 05-19-2016 |
| 084466000 | For singers | 2 |
| 20140083278 | DIRECT VOCAL AND INSTRUMENT MONITOR - The present invention relates to direct voice and instrument monitoring systems and methods of use thereof. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140116231 | VOCAL / INSTRUMENTAL TRAINING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SAME - A vocal and/or instrumental training system can include a sound storage database having a plurality of model sound recordings, such as recordings of various wild game calls, stored therein. A user can select one of the model sound recordings to emulate, and provide audio input, such as the user's vocal performance of a wild game call, in an attempt to emulate the selected model sound recording. The audio input can be received by an audio input device, and recorded by a recording device. Audio characteristics, such as pitch, tone, timbre, cadence, rhythm, beat and/or amplitude, of the recorded audio input can be compared with the corresponding audio characteristics of the selected model sound recording. Results of the comparison can be graphically displayed on a sound graph. | 05-01-2014 |
| 084467000 | For pianists | 3 |
| 20130104724 | MUSIC PLAYING MOVEMENT DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130199357 | MUSIC PLAYING MOVEMENT DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, MUSIC PLAYING MOVEMENT CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A music playing movement display control device | 08-08-2013 |
| 084469000 | Armrest rail | 1 |
| 20100251874 | KEYBOARD PRACTICE APPARATUS - A keyboard practice apparatus is provided which includes a slide member, a support member, and means for supporting the slide member in juxtaposition with a keyboard of an instrument. The support member is configured to support an arm of a user and to be slidably coupled to the slide member. The apparatus is operable to allow a player of a keyboard instrument in a seated position with a forearm resting on the support member to move their forearm along a length of the keyboard by sliding the support member along a portion of a length of the slide member. | 10-07-2010 |
