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2001-02-15

2001-11-06

Donels, Jeffrey (Department: 2837)

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

C084S602000, C084S094200, C446S303000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06313386

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to devices, methods, and systems for playing music, and more particularly to at least one device, method, and system for playing music from a digital storage media.
BACKGROUND
Known music boxes tend to have poor audio quality. Moreover, known music boxes tend to have a very limited and unchangeable choice of music.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
One exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an apparatus for playing music. The apparatus includes a manually movable spring, a generator mechanically coupled to the manually movable spring, and a controller electrically coupled to the generator. The apparatus also includes a memory interface coupled to the controller, the memory interface, in an operative configuration, coupled to a removable memory device containing digital music data. The apparatus can further include an audio interface coupled to the controller, the audio interface, in an operative configuration, coupled to a speaker.


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