System and method for teaching piano and note reading
OwnerVera Holczer-Waroquetinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for teaching children in the field of music, and more particularly to teach children to play the piano and read musical notes using physical objects with images of characters assigned to fingers and animals assigned to musical notes, with assigned colors and shapes, and all incorporated within themed environments presented in continuing stories.
Claims17
A combination of tools for teaching children to play the piano and read musical notes using specific characters assigned to each finger and a specific animal assigned to each musical note, where each specific character and specific animal are provided as physical objects to be associated with each respective finger and musical note, each specific character assigned to each finger is displayed as an image on the physical objects, including tokens, charms, rings, stickers or tattoos which may be engaged or supported on the assigned finger during playing of the piano, each specific animal is assigned a specific color and is displayed as an image on the physical objects, including physical toys, tokens, charms, rings, or stickers to be engaged with and supported on the assigned musical notes and piano keys represented by the specific animals and representative physical objects during playing of the piano keys, all of the specific animals are incorporated within environment depicting musical notation and are presented in a series of continuing stories including using a house, which is a physical object for positioning adjacent black keys of a piano keyboard, as part of a themed story for teaching the location of black keys on a piano keyboard.
A kit for learning to play the piano and reading musical notes, comprising:
- presentation materials, including pages of information, books or electronic images in a computer program for use on a laptop, tablet, smart phone or other electronic device;
- tokens bearing the images of 7 different animals representing 7 musical notes;
- a board having an external shape of, and displaying an image of, a dog house with one door, and having two slots for positioning on a group of two adjacent black keys of the piano keyboard;
- a board having an external shape of, and displaying an image of, an animal house with two doors, and having three slots for positioning on a group of three adjacent black keys of the piano keyboard;
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- rings for wearing on fingers, and displaying the images of at least five different characters representing fingers on one hand.
A combination of tools for teaching children to play the piano and read musical notes using specific characters assigned to each finger and a specific animal assigned to each musical note, where each specific character and specific animal are provided as physical objects to be associated with each respective finger and musical note, each specific character assigned to each finger is displayed as an image on the physical objects, including tokens, charms, rings, stickers or tattoos which may be engaged or supported on the assigned finger during playing of the piano, each specific animal is assigned a specific color and is displayed as an image on the physical objects, including physical toys, tokens, charms, rings, or stickers to be engaged with and supported on the assigned musical notes and piano keys represented by the specific animals and representative physical objects during playing of the piano keys, and a physical object is supported adjacent to an elbow of child learning to play the piano as a reminder of proper body position while playing the piano, and the physical object may be an arm band, a toy, a token, a charm, a tattoo or a sticker.
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