Abstract: Various systems and methods for air gesture-based composition and instruction systems are described herein. A composition system for composing gesture-based performances may receive an indication of an air gesture performed by a user; reference a mapping of air gestures to air gesture notations to identify an air gesture notation corresponding to the air gesture; and store an indication of the air gesture notation in a memory of the computerized composition system. Another system used for instruction may present a plurality of air gesture notations in a musical arrangement; receive an indication of an air gesture performed by a user; reference a mapping of air gestures to air gesture notations to identify an air gesture notation corresponding to the air gesture; and guide the user through the musical arrangement by sequentially highlighting the air gesture notations in the musical arrangement based on the mapping of air gestures to air gesture notations.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for providing interactive striking objects (e.g., drumsticks) and performing actions in response to striking motions of the striking objects are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide an interactive drumstick, which includes a lighting display located at a tip portion of the interactive drumstick, a motion detector contained at least partially within the drumstick, a processor and memory contained at least partially within the drumstick, and an interactive system stored within the memory of the drumstick. The interactive system includes a striking motion module that determines striking motions of the drumstick with respect to a virtual percussion instrument based on accessing information measured by the motion detector, and a display module that causes the lighting display to present a certain type of illumination based on the striking motions determined by the striking motion module.

Abstract: A keyboard musical instrument is provided in which variations in the detection mechanism is corrected so that an appropriate musical sound control can be performed. Detection sections SW1, SW2, and SW3 detect an object at detection positions pSW1, pSW2, and pSW3. On the basis of a detection timing (rT2) by the detection section SW2, a detected key depression speed (V21), and a detection timing (rT3) by the detection section SW3 in a case where the key is depressed in a derivation mode, after a rST32 value is calculated, a stroke correction value calST32 is derived as correction information J and stored in a memory 57. In the performance mode, the musical sound is controlled on the basis of the detection timing by the detection sections SW1, SW2, and SW3 and the stroke correction value calST32.

Abstract: An automated music composition and generation system and process allowing system users to produce and deliver electronic messages and documents, such as text, SMS and email, augmented with automatically-composed music generated using user-selected emotion-type and style-type musical experience descriptors. The automated music composition and generation system includes an automated music composition and generation engine operably connected to a system user interface, and the infrastructure of the Internet. Mobile and desktop client machines provide text, SMS and/or email services supported on the Internet. Each client machine has a text application, SMS application and/or email application augmented by the addition of automatically-composed music by systems users using the automated music composition and generation engine.

Abstract: A musical instrument recording system is provided. The system includes a recorder capable of receiving MIDI data from an instrument and recording the MIDI data onto a first memory. The recorder further renders the MIDI data into an audio file and store the audio file onto a second memory as stored data. The recorder transmits the stored data to a user device, such as a user's smart phone, a remote computer, etc., and/or to a cloud-based storage system.

Abstract: A reaction force generator includes a hollow elastic member made of an elastically deformable material and a protrusion protruding from an outer surface of the hollow elastic member, the protrusion being tiltable in at least a first direction and a second direction, the first and second direction being symmetric with each other about a neutral position of the protrusion, wherein at least one of physical dimensions and material properties of the hollow elastic member is asymmetric with respect to the neutral position of the protrusion along the first direction and the second direction such that a first reaction force that would be generated by the protrusion when tilted in the first direction and a second reaction force that would be generated by the protrusion when tilted in the second direction are asymmetric with respect to the neutral position of the protrusion.

Abstract: A system 100, for determining the velocity of a hammer 120 of a keyboard instrument, with a light transceiver 140 and processing circuitry 160. The light transceiver 140 being configured to transmit a light signal to a hammer 120 to measure a hammer velocity, receive a reflected light signal from the hammer 120 indicative of the velocity of the hammer 120 and send an electrical signal to the processing circuitry 160, where the electrical signal is based on the reflected light signal from the hammer 120. The processing circuitry 160 being configured to receive and process the electrical signal so that a time interval between the electrical signal passing through a first trigger point and a second trigger point and the velocity of the hammer 120 can be determined.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes; a plurality of keys, each of the plurality of keys specifying a pitch; a memory storing musical piece data representing a musical piece; and a processor, wherein the processor executes the following: retrieving the musical piece data of a musical piece from the memory and determining whether the musical piece data contains data of a lyric; and when the musical piece data contains the data of the lyric, and if a note specified by an operation of a key by a user is accompanied by a part of the lyric in the musical piece, causing data of a singing voice sound having the pitch specified by said operated key to be generated in accordance with the part of the lyric in response to the operation of the key, and causing the singing voice sound to be audibly output.

Abstract: The present indention provides a stringed musical instrument comprising; a substantially hollow body portion containing an audio system comprising an amplifier; at least one loudspeaker electrically connected to the audio amplifier; an audio interface for electrically connecting to a smart device and a power supply electrically connected to the audio system; a neck sub-assembly including: a neck; playing strings extending lengthwise along the neck; a bridge attached to the neck over which the strings are stretched, and tensioning means by which the strings are held tensioned; and a docking station whereby, in use, a smart device may be removably secured to the instrument and electrically connected to the audio system.

Abstract: A musical instrument peg winder that includes a tuning peg engaging head, a handle that extends parallel to and laterally offset from the head, and a coupling unit that interconnects the head to the handle.

Abstract: An energy storage system is provided including: an elevator; an elevator motor; a power system coupled to the elevator motor. The power system including at least one capacitor operable to store energy received form the elevator motor and to supply stored energy to the elevator motor; and at least one flywheel operable to store energy received from the elevator motor and to supply stored energy to the elevator motor.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system for developing sense of rhythm. The system includes an interactive surface embedded with an RF antenna, a host, a memory unit, and a media player, an array of contact points on the interactive surface, a display device configured to export the comparison of the tempo and the beat input by a player with the preset tempo and the preset beat, and multiple physical sheets. The function of each contact point is determined or changed by the host in accordance with preset programs. Each physical sheet is embedded with an RFID tag and marked with a musical instrument and corresponding functional components, and the location of the functional components corresponds to the contact points in accordance with the preset programs.

Abstract: A smart effects unit disclosed includes effects modules, a control module and a switching device. The control module includes a processor, a user interface and a memory. The processor is connected to an musical instrument and effect modules through an input switch interface, such that the audio signal of the instrument is able to be inputted into the effects modules based on a combination configuration to generate a combined effect audio signal. The combination configuration defines the connection sequence of the plurality of effect modules. The user interface is provided to adjust each effect module and the connection sequence order of effect modules through the input interface to generate the combination configuration, which is stored in a memory. The switching device connected to the control module is provided to switch the control module between different combination configurations based on the combination configurations stored in the memory.

Abstract: Provided are an electronic percussion instrument and a control device thereof. The electronic percussion instrument includes central and peripheral sensors, first and second waiting devices, and a sound production instruction device. When the central sensor detects a strike earlier than the peripheral sensor, the first waiting device performs a first waiting process for a first predetermined time after the central sensor detects the strike. When the peripheral sensor detects a strike earlier than the central sensor, the second waiting device performs a second waiting process for a second predetermined time after the peripheral sensor detects the strike. The sound production instruction device instructs production of a striking sound after the first waiting process of the first waiting device ends, or after the second waiting process of the second waiting device ends if the central sensor has not detected a strike within the second waiting process of the second waiting device.

Abstract: An elevator control apparatus that can estimate an error of a governor encoder caused by expansion and contraction of a governor rope without need to add new governor speed detectors. The elevator control apparatus includes: a governor rope expansion/contraction amount estimating device that estimates an error of a governor encoder caused by expansion and contraction of a governor rope on the basis of a governor encoder counter signal according to a rotation of a governor around which the governor rope connected to a car of an elevator provided in a building is wound, when a landing plate detector of the car is switched from a state in which a landing plate provided at a position corresponding to a floor of the building is detected to a state in which the landing plate is not detected.

Abstract: A toy musical instrument having a compact housing supporting an automated music composition and generation engine that is driven by icon-based musical experience descriptors and musical style descriptors, selected by a child or adult during a video scoring process.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a first memory storing a plurality of waveform data; and a second memory having a plurality of waveform buffer regions that respectively function as ring buffers, wherein one of a processor or a sound source executes the following: setting a plurality of threshold margin values respectively for the plurality of waveform buffer regions, at least some of the threshold margin values are different from each other; identifying, at a prescribed timing, among the plurality of waveform buffer regions, a waveform buffer region in which a waveform read margin calculated for said waveform buffer region reaches the threshold margin value set and assigned to said waveform buffer region; and stopping a sound that has been generated from the waveform data read from the waveform buffer region that is identified by the identified process.

Abstract: A hi-hat stand includes an upper pipe and a lower pipe. A leg unit includes leg plates, stays, a fixing collar, and a sliding collar. The leg plates and the stays are assembled with the lower pipe via the sliding collar and the fixing collar. On the outer circumferential surface of the lower pipe, a slide preventing surface is formed in a fixing position of the sliding collar. The slide preventing surface is formed by diamond knurling.

Abstract: A desktop audio loudspeaker system, for placement on a desktop used a work surface by a listener, includes an enclosure for placement on or above the desktop, the enclosure having a front surface; a first loudspeaker mounted in the enclosure, the first loudspeaker radiating sound from the enclosure, past the front surface, in a direct path to ears of the listener. This embodiment also includes a first reflective element having a surface, the first reflective element mounted in relation to the enclosure so as to reduce multipath effects caused by reflection of sound by the desktop, wherein the surface of the first reflective element is disposed transversely with respect to the front surface of the enclosure, and forming an angle with the front surface, to reflect sound, emanating from the first loudspeaker, away from the desktop in a direction that avoids a direct path to ears of the listener.

Abstract: An electric stringed musical instrument includes a body, a neck extending from the body, a plurality of tensioned strings extending between the body and the neck and an electric pick-up mounted to the body at a location for cooperation with the tensioned strings. The electric stringed musical instrument also includes an amplifier electrically connected to the electric pick-up and a speaker connected to the amplifier for the generation of sound waves. An elongated acoustic chamber extends from the speaker to an output port. The amplifier, speaker and elongated acoustic chamber are housed within the body.