G10C 5/10
Switching musical instruments to a keyboard
Official title: Switching musical instruments to a keyboard, e.g. switching a piano mechanism or an electrophonic instrument to a keyboard; Switching musical instruments to a silent mode
G10C5/10 (Switching musical instruments to a keyboard) appears on 53 US grants and 17 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G10C- Granted patents
- 53
- Published applications
- 17
- Assignees
- 8
- Inventors
- 55
- Latest grant
- 15 Feb 2022
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Stopper rail for silent piano15 Feb 2022US 11,250,820 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Seisakusho
- Piano system and method thereof1 Sep 2020US 10,762,879 B2Sunland Information Technology Co., Ltd.
- Keyboard apparatus4 Feb 2020US 10,553,190 B2Yamaha Corporation
- Hammer stoppers for pianos having acoustic and silent modes24 Sep 2013US 8,541,673 B2Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc.
- Musical instrument having controller exactly discriminating half-pedal and controlling system used therein6 Aug 2013US 8,502,059 B2Yamaha Corporation
- Key depression amount sensor device29 May 2025US 2025/0172382 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Stopper rail for silent piano30 Sep 2021US 2021/0304710 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
- Piano system and method thereof3 Oct 2019US 2019/0304413 A1Sunland Information Technology Co., Ltd.
- Keyboard apparatus23 May 2019US 2019/0156803 A1Yamaha Corporation
- Hammer stoppers for pianos having acoustic and silent modes27 Sep 2012US 2012/0240743 A1Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for rejuvenating vintage organs and pianos64US 5,459,282 A1995
- System for rejuvenating vintage organs and pianos58US 5,440,072 A1995
- Keyboard instrument with touch responsive display unit39US 6,084,167 AYamaha Corporation · 2000
- Acoustic tone inhibiting means for keyboard musical instrument36US 4,704,931 ANippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1987
- Method for adjustment of hammer let off on a keyboard musical instrument32US 5,509,340 AYamaha Corporation · 1996