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Method and apparatus for music instruction

US4175468A · kind A · utility

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6Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateOct 22, 1976
Grant dateNov 27, 1979
Priority date
Expiry dateOct 22, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09B15/006
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Method and apparatus for indicating finger pattern information for a musical stringed fingerboard instrument comprising at least one type of first indicia in a fingering pattern specified by pairs of coordinates representing allowable locations for fingering the stringed fingerboard instrument to sound musical tones of a chord or scale, and a repositionable string stop series for selecting a correlation of the ordinal number of at least one string stop of the stringed fingerboard instrument with the indicia of the fingering pattern.

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