Hand held electronic music encyclopedia with text and note struc

Details Hand held electronic music encyclopedia with text and note struc Hand held electronic music encyclopedia with text and note struc

1996-12-27

1998-04-14

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

A63H 500, G04B 1300, G10H 700

Patent

active

057394512

ABSTRACT:
A hand held electronic music reference machine includes a platform having a keyboard and a display for displaying text. A database removably or permanently mounted to the platform has a first memory portion storing, for each of a multiplicity of songs, selected lyrics and identification information including a title. The database has a second memory portion storing a segment from each of the songs. A user actuated selection component is operatively connected to the first memory portion of the database and to the display for permitting operator selection of a song from a list of song titles shown on the display and inducing display of the lyrics stored in the first memory portion for the selected song. In addition, a user actuated audio production element provided on the platform is operatively coupled to selection component and the database for enabling an audible reproduction of the segment stored in the second memory portion for the selected song. Search filters are provided for enabling a user to determine a song title from bits of ancillary information, including a series of relative note or pitch values, i.e., a melody line which is rising, falling or remaining the same in pitch value.

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Bultman, Mary, et al., This is The Ultimate Fake Book it Contains Over 1200 Songs, 1981, vol. 1, 1 pg.

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