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Digital sight-singing piano with a fixed-solfège keyboard, continuous keys and adjustable tones by kneading piano keys

US10354625B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 23, 2018
Grant dateJul 16, 2019
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Expiry dateMay 23, 2038

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10H2220/116
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A digital sight-singing piano is disclosed with a fixed-solfège keyboard, continuous keys and adjustable tones by kneading piano keys, wherein the key can be varied continuously and the frequency of a piano key can be slightly adjusted by kneading the piano key during playing. The keyboard of the digital sight-singing piano has fixed solfège, wherein no matter what key is used for playing, the piano keys in a solfège key set always have the same correspondence to the solfège syllables of the numbered musical notation in one octave. A color graphic vector numbered musical notation is also disclosed, wherein extended solfège is used to describe pitch, different colors are used to indicate the positions of the piano keys to press, notation frames with fixed width are used to represent the beat unit, and font (i.e., bold or not) of musical notes are used to show the strength of pressing piano keys. The color graphic vector numbered musical notation is suitable for computer-aided notation. It can be exhibited in several different types and provide multi-dimension playing information. The color graphic vector numbered musical notation can also be combined with the fixed-solfège keyboard …

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