Music instrument system and methods

Details Music instrument system and methods Music instrument system and methods

2005-11-01

2005-11-01

Fletcher, Marlon T. (Department: 2837)

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

C084S600000, C084S724000, C084S735000, C084S737000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06960715

ABSTRACT:
A system and methods which allow even a novice performer to easily play music which is not disharmonious and which is pleasing to the performer and his or her audience. The music is preferably created by a performer breaking one or more beams of light, which are emitted by one or more beam emitters and received, or detected, by one or more beam detectors. When a beam detector determines that a beam has been broken, a trigger is sent to a synthesizer, with such synthesizer preferably being a computer interfaced to the beam detectors via a Universal Serial Bus connection. The synthesizer selects from one or more electronic sounds, based on a pre-programmed collection of sounds, and a sound generator, such as an amplifier and speakers, plays the sound.

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