Music – Accessories – Teaching devices
Patent
1979-03-09
1980-05-20
Franklin, Lawrence R.
Music
Accessories
Teaching devices
84404, 84477R, G09B 1504
Patent
active
042033446
ABSTRACT:
A musical education game for teaching children to associate each letter name with a staff position and key position includes in exemplary form a keyboard operated array of hammers, each of which on the upstroke will lift or jiggle a corresponding note-related removable figurine or token and on the downstroke will sound a corresponding tone, if the token is positioned in proper location in a staff display by a student. A corresponding tone also sounds when the token is dropped into correct location, driving the corresponding hammer down. If the token is incorrectly located, it does not sound a note when dropped into place and when the hammer is actuated remains unmoved; in any case on the downstroke the hammer strikes a note corresponding to the respective key position but not identifiably aligned with it visually. Overlays for the keyboard include indicia grouping the notes in register, and additional structural provisions can aid the student in associating token position with staff position.
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Franklin Lawrence R.
McClellan, Sr. John F.
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