US 10,354,625 B2 · Digital sight-singing piano with a fixed-solfège keyboard, continuous keys and adjustable tones by kneading piano keys

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 to facilitate sight-singing and make it easy to learn to play the piano.

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Dependent claims

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

a sound source module that collects and stores sound sources of all kinds of musical instruments and sets up a sound source database;
a solfège keyboard that sends instructions to the sound source module and the key-temperament-timbre adjustment module according to the buttons pressed;
a key-temperament-timbre adjustment module that edits the sound source and generates a new sound file according to the received instructions;
and
a sound play module that plays the sound file,
wherein the solfège keyboard includes
a key selector that enables the player to choose a discrete key or an arbitrary frequency within the frequency range as the key;
a temperament selector that enables the player to choose the temperament;
a timbre selector that enables the player to choose the timbre;
a control unit that controls the overall work of the solfège keyboard according to the inputs of the key selector, the temperament selector, and the timbre selector;
a screen that displays the information of key, temperament, and timbre, wherein the screen can also be a touch screen that integrates the key selector, the temperament selector, and the timbre selector;
multiple solfège key sets;
and
other function keys.

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A color graphic vector numbered musical notation, comprising

descriptions;
and
musical notes,
wherein the descriptions include a key signature description, a beat unit description, and a beat count description;
wherein the key signature description adopts the same format as that in the numbered musical notation;
wherein the key signature description can describe the pitch of “do” more precisely and if the frequency of “do” is f Hz, then set 1=f Hz, where f is an arbitrary frequency that can be supported by the apparatus;
wherein the beat unit description is illustrated as
•
=
x
,
where the rectangle frame is referred to as the notation frame;
wherein x can be a fraction or a period of time, representing the duration of one beat;
wherein the beat count description is illustrated as

•
⁢
⁢
•
⁢
⁢
…
⁢
⁢
…
⁢
⁢
•
⁢
⁢
•
︸
N

,
which means N notation frames per bar, i.e., N beats per bar;
wherein the key signature description, beat unit description, and beat count description are usually described at the beginning of a piece, just below the title;
and
wherein the key signature description, beat unit description, and beat count description should be described again if any of the key, beat unit or beat count changes during playing.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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

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

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