Method of controlling remote equipment over the internet and a m

Details Method of controlling remote equipment over the internet and a m Method of controlling remote equipment over the internet and a m

1998-03-11

2000-05-30

Nappi, Robert E.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84622, G10H 700

Patent

active

06069310&

ABSTRACT:
A method is disclosed for transmitting musical performances over the Internet from a single point such as a piano Internet web site to multipoint such as player pianos located within subscriber's homes. A subscription service associated with the web site would offer monthly subscription services where a subscriber can access any one of millions of prerecorded performances at any time of day and have a signal transmitted to the subscriber's computer. A transmitted signal is received at the subscriber's computer and a musical instrument, such as a player piano, can perform the prerecorded performance. The web site would also offer a mix of live performances as part of the basic subscription at additional cost, at a pay-per-performance basis. The musical performance would be either a live performance which would be transmitted from point to multipoint or prerecorded performance which would be more typically sent from a storage device associated with the web site directly to a single customer.

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