EP2084701A4 - Musical instrument - Google Patents

Musical instrument

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Publication number
EP2084701A4
EP2084701A4 EP07836491.6A EP07836491A EP2084701A4 EP 2084701 A4 EP2084701 A4 EP 2084701A4 EP 07836491 A EP07836491 A EP 07836491A EP 2084701 A4 EP2084701 A4 EP 2084701A4
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EP
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Prior art keywords
musical instrument
musical
instrument
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Withdrawn
Application number
EP07836491.6A
Other languages
German (de)
French (fr)
Other versions
EP2084701A2 (en
Inventor
Daniel E Sullivan
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Zivix LLC
Original Assignee
Zivix LLC
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Priority claimed from US11/498,996 external-priority patent/US7598449B2/en
Application filed by Zivix LLC filed Critical Zivix LLC
Publication of EP2084701A2 publication Critical patent/EP2084701A2/en
Publication of EP2084701A4 publication Critical patent/EP2084701A4/en
Withdrawn legal-status Critical Current

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Classifications

    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H1/00—Details of electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H1/32—Constructional details
    • G10H1/34—Switch arrangements, e.g. keyboards or mechanical switches specially adapted for electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H1/342—Switch arrangements, e.g. keyboards or mechanical switches specially adapted for electrophonic musical instruments for guitar-like instruments with or without strings and with a neck on which switches or string-fret contacts are used to detect the notes being played
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H1/00—Details of electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H1/02—Means for controlling the tone frequencies, e.g. attack or decay; Means for producing special musical effects, e.g. vibratos or glissandos
    • G10H1/04—Means for controlling the tone frequencies, e.g. attack or decay; Means for producing special musical effects, e.g. vibratos or glissandos by additional modulation
    • G10H1/053—Means for controlling the tone frequencies, e.g. attack or decay; Means for producing special musical effects, e.g. vibratos or glissandos by additional modulation during execution only
    • G10H1/055—Means for controlling the tone frequencies, e.g. attack or decay; Means for producing special musical effects, e.g. vibratos or glissandos by additional modulation during execution only by switches with variable impedance elements
    • G10H1/0553—Means for controlling the tone frequencies, e.g. attack or decay; Means for producing special musical effects, e.g. vibratos or glissandos by additional modulation during execution only by switches with variable impedance elements using optical or light-responsive means
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H2220/00—Input/output interfacing specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2220/135—Musical aspects of games or videogames; Musical instrument-shaped game input interfaces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H2220/00—Input/output interfacing specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2220/155—User input interfaces for electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H2220/405—Beam sensing or control, i.e. input interfaces involving substantially immaterial beams, radiation, or fields of any nature, used, e.g. as a switch as in a light barrier, or as a control device, e.g. using the theremin electric field sensing principle
    • G10H2220/411—Light beams
    • G10H2220/415—Infrared beams

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Acoustics & Sound (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Electrophonic Musical Instruments (AREA)
  • Stringed Musical Instruments (AREA)
EP07836491.6A 2006-08-04 2007-08-02 Musical instrument Withdrawn EP2084701A4 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (3)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US11/498,996 US7598449B2 (en) 2006-08-04 2006-08-04 Musical instrument
US93749007P 2007-06-28 2007-06-28
PCT/US2007/017383 WO2008019089A2 (en) 2006-08-04 2007-08-02 Musical instrument

Publications (2)

Publication Number Publication Date
EP2084701A2 EP2084701A2 (en) 2009-08-05
EP2084701A4 true EP2084701A4 (en) 2013-08-07

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Family Applications (1)

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EP07836491.6A Withdrawn EP2084701A4 (en) 2006-08-04 2007-08-02 Musical instrument

Country Status (2)

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EP (1) EP2084701A4 (en)
WO (1) WO2008019089A2 (en)

Families Citing this family (7)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US7598449B2 (en) 2006-08-04 2009-10-06 Zivix Llc Musical instrument
US7897866B2 (en) 2008-10-07 2011-03-01 Zivix Llc Systems and methods for a digital stringed instrument
US8173887B2 (en) 2008-10-07 2012-05-08 Zivix Llc Systems and methods for a digital stringed instrument
JP7095245B2 (en) * 2017-09-25 2022-07-05 カシオ計算機株式会社 Electronic keyboard instrument, keyboard light emission method and keyboard light emission program
CN113611269A (en) * 2021-08-10 2021-11-05 广州蓝深科技有限公司 Control panel of electronic piano and use method thereof
USD1104135S1 (en) 2023-10-25 2025-12-02 Marcodi Musical Products Stringed musical instrument
USD1105221S1 (en) 2023-10-25 2025-12-09 Marcodi Musical Products Stringed musical instrument

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US4630520A (en) * 1984-11-08 1986-12-23 Carmine Bonanno Guitar controller for a music synthesizer
US20020148346A1 (en) * 2001-01-31 2002-10-17 Okulov Paul D. Electronic-acoustic guitar with enhanced sound, chord and melody creation system
US20050183567A1 (en) * 2004-02-20 2005-08-25 Naofumi Aoki Playing motion capturing apparatus, fingering analysis apparatus, string instrument for playing motion capturing, and string instrument for practicing fingering

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US4468999A (en) 1983-02-28 1984-09-04 Octave-Plateau Electronics Inc. Programmable synthesizer
US4658690A (en) 1983-05-10 1987-04-21 Synthaxe Limited Electronic musical instrument
US4794838A (en) 1986-07-17 1989-01-03 Corrigau Iii James F Constantly changing polyphonic pitch controller
US4748887A (en) 1986-09-03 1988-06-07 Marshall Steven C Electric musical string instruments and frets therefor
US5557057A (en) 1991-12-27 1996-09-17 Starr; Harvey W. Electronic keyboard instrument
US5739455A (en) * 1996-12-17 1998-04-14 Poon; Yiu Cheung Electronic guitar music simulation system
US6610917B2 (en) * 1998-05-15 2003-08-26 Lester F. Ludwig Activity indication, external source, and processing loop provisions for driven vibrating-element environments
RU2001124347A (en) * 1999-02-02 2003-08-27 Дзе Гитрон Корпорейшн (Ca) Electronic string musical instrument

Patent Citations (3)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4630520A (en) * 1984-11-08 1986-12-23 Carmine Bonanno Guitar controller for a music synthesizer
US20020148346A1 (en) * 2001-01-31 2002-10-17 Okulov Paul D. Electronic-acoustic guitar with enhanced sound, chord and melody creation system
US20050183567A1 (en) * 2004-02-20 2005-08-25 Naofumi Aoki Playing motion capturing apparatus, fingering analysis apparatus, string instrument for playing motion capturing, and string instrument for practicing fingering

Non-Patent Citations (1)

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Title
See also references of WO2008019089A2 *

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Publication number Publication date
EP2084701A2 (en) 2009-08-05
WO2008019089A2 (en) 2008-02-14
WO2008019089A3 (en) 2008-06-19

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