Abstract: A power system on an electric guitar may include a cover plate covering a cavity in the electric guitar. A rechargeable power source may be contained within the cavity which may include circuitry. Other instruments or configurations may be used.

Abstract: A method determines a status of at least one component of an elevator system, wherein the elevator system includes a suspension apparatus having at least one traction member. The at least one traction member is surrounded by a non-metallic cladding, wherein the suspension apparatus is guided via a drive sheave with a metallic traction surface. The method includes the steps of: identifying at least one parameter based on an electrostatic effect which occurs due to friction of the non-metallic cladding on the traction sheave with the metallic traction surface; and determining a status of the at least one component on the basis of the identified parameter.

Abstract: An electronic terminal device can be configured using a device identifier that is input into the device. The terminal device sends the device identifier to a configuration server. The configuration server responds by sending configuration information to the terminal device based on the device identifier.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses according the present embodiments derive the sound of a Hammond tonewheel organ from the equal-tempered tuning of its tonewheels and drawbar registration design, as well as its vibrato/chorus processing and pickup distortion. In embodiments, as a reverberation effect, the modal processor simulates a room response as the sum of resonant filter responses, providing precise, independent and interactive control over the frequency, damping, and complex amplitude of each mode. As an effects processor, the modal processor provides pitch shifting and distortion by simple manipulations of the mode output sinusoids.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an overlay for a touchscreen piano keyboard implemented on an iPad or similar touchscreen device. It includes a screen covering sheet, that has a top surface pitted with hollows, such that it blocks activation of the touchscreen piano keys when lightly pressed, but not when more firmly pressed, thereby emulating the pressing of physical piano keys.

Abstract: A musical instrument pitch changing apparatus for a musical instrument having at least a first and second string is disclosed. The apparatus includes a bender lever pivotally secured to the musical instrument, a rocker arm pivotally secured to the instrument for varying the tension in the first string in response to movement of the bender lever between the first and second positions. A rocker arm mount secures the rocker arm to the first selected string in a first bending configuration or to the second selected string in a second bending configuration. The rocker arm is movable between the first selected string and the second selected string of the musical instrument.

Abstract: Method for transcription of voiced musical note includes segmenting an electronic audio signal into a plurality of musical note segments, and sampling each note segment to obtain a plurality of audio samples. For each audio sample, an autocorrelation is computed to determine a probability value associated with certain audio frequencies contained within the audio sample. Local maxima are identified in the energy associated with one or more audio frequencies comprising each audio sample and a corrective function applied to reduce the occurrence of octave errors. A true pitch of each note segment is then determined by converting the pitch identification problem to one involving a shortest path through a graph or network of node. Edge weights are computed for a plurality of adjacent nodes i, j comprising the graph, where each node represents one of the musical note segments.

Abstract: A sound effect adjusting device includes: an effect pedal; a pedal board including a first housing, a three-way toggle switch, a microswitch, and a mounting member; the first housing including an input interface, an output interface, a send interface and a return interface formed thereon; the three-way toggle switch having a first contact blade electrically connected with the input interface, a second contact blade electrically connected with the send interface, a third contact blade electrically connected with the microswitch; the mounting member having a first pins assembly electrically coupled to the effect pedal; while the effect pedal assembled with the pedal board, the microswitch is off, and operates the three-way toggle switch so that the effect pedal is connected between the input interface and the output interface in series, or, the effect pedal connected between the send interface and the return interface in series.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to extract a pitch-independent timbre attribute from a media signal are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an interface to receive a media signal; and an audio characteristic extractor to determine a spectrum of audio corresponding to the media signal; and determine a pitch-independent timbre attribute of the audio based on an inverse transform of a magnitude of a transform of the spectrum.

Abstract: An elevator car destination dispatching system and methodology are disclosed. The system includes a user interface that is configured to permit a user of a plurality of users to enter a desired destination in a building. The system further includes a presence detector disposed in the vicinity of the user interface. The presence detector is configured to detect the presence of the user of the plurality of users at the user interface. The presence detector is also operably coupled to a controller. The controller is configured to dispatch an elevator car based on the desired destination entered by the user of the plurality of users and the presence of the user of the plurality of users in the vicinity of the user interface.

Abstract: An acoustic system comprises an output unit, a communication unit, a first output control unit, and a second output control unit. The output unit is configured to be capable of outputting a sound and an image. The communication unit is configured to be capable of communicating with an external device. The first output control unit is configured to receive, from a communication device that transmits a reproduction signal for acoustic data, the reproduction signal via the communication unit and to cause the output unit to output a sound based on the reproduction signal, to thereby perform reproduction of a series of sounds represented by the acoustic data. The second output control unit is configured to cause the output unit to output, as the image, a word corresponding to the sound outputted by the output unit among the series of sounds represented by the acoustic data.

Abstract: An electronic wind instrument is provided, which is capable of representing a wide range of performances using a tonguing operation. The electronic wind instrument has at least one sensor, a sound source for generating a tone, and a controller. The controller controls a tonguing performance detecting process for detecting a tonguing performance played by the player based on the output value from the one sensor, and a tone muting process for muting the tone output from the speaker in accordance with the lip position of the player determined in the lip position determining process, while the tonguing performance is being detected in the tonguing performance detecting process.

Abstract: A stringed-instrument saddle having two string paths, each string path configured to accommodate a string, wherein the two string paths are offset from one another by an offset distance in a direction of string travel.

Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides a pickup for a string instrument. The pickup includes: a plurality of pole pieces arranged along a non-linear path and a wire coil formed around said plurality of pole pieces and having a profile corresponding to said non-linear path. Another aspect of the invention provides a string instrument including: the pickup as described herein and a plurality of strings. Each string of said plurality of strings passes over a respective pole piece of said plurality of pole pieces.

Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system for automatically composing and generating digital pieces of music using an automated music composition and generation engine driven by a set of emotion-type and style-type musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters supplied by a system user during an automated music composition and generation process. The system includes a system user interface allowing a system user to input (i) linguistic and/or graphical icon based musical experience descriptors, and (ii) a video, audio-recording, image, slide-show, or event marker, as input through the system user interface.

Abstract: A mouthpiece cap for a wind instrument including a body defining a cavity substantially complementarily shaped to a mouthpiece for a wind instrument. The body includes a top portion, a bottom portion that extends further than the top portion, and a plenum about a front end of the body. The mouthpiece cap further including a reed support positioned about a bottom portion of the body.

Abstract: A musical instrument, for example, a keyboard guitar, includes a body, an elongated neck coupled to the body, neck keys disposed on the elongated neck, and an output for transmitting an electrical signal generated by the musical instrument. Activation of each neck key generates an electrical signal at the output representing a pitch associated with a musical note. The musical instrument may also include body keys disposed on the body, and a strum bar that generates an electrical signal at the output representing a pitch associated with a musical note based on which of the body keys are activated during activation of the strum bar. Further, the musical instrument may include a continuous graphic image spanning the front face of the body and the body keys, forming a continuous pattern that is unbroken across a transition between key surfaces of the body keys and the front face of the body.

Abstract: An electronic musical performance controller comprising a microprocessor, proximity sensor, gyroscope, accelerometer, narrow beam guide light, and one or more finger monitoring sensors. The proximity sensor is mounted on the front of the controller and represents the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system. Preprogrammed events are mapped into the surrounding space at fixed distances and pitch and yaw angles from the proximity sensor. The guide light beam illuminates the proximity sensor's field of view. The controller is held in one hand and the guide light beam is aimed at the other hand. When the player's finger triggers a finger monitoring sensor, the length of the guide light beam and the pitch and yaw of the proximity sensor are measured. This information is used to determine which mapped event the player is selecting. The preprogrammed event is then output via a MIDI bus or built in sound module and speaker.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a converter configured to supply power to a motor of an elevator, a first power source coupled to the converter and configured to provide input power to the converter, and a second power source selectively coupled to the converter and configured to provide input power to the converter when power from the first power source is unavailable and when an elevator car of the elevator is moving, wherein a speed of the elevator car remains substantially constant when a transition in terms of the input power to the converter is made from the first power source to the second power source.

Abstract: A first input section is used for inputting first tone data, and a first output section is connected to the first input section via a first path. A second input section is used for inputting second tone data, and a second output section is connected to the second input section via a second path. A tone processing module performs tone processing on the tone data, and a processor is configured to insert the tone processing module into the first and second paths in response to selection of first and second modes, respectively. The tone processing module performs the tone processing on the first tone data in the first mode, and performs the tone processing on the second tone data in the second mode. The above allows connection of the module to be set easily in response to the selected mode.