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US 5,496,179 AGranted
System for teaching music reading
OwnerChristine Hoffmaninventor
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Abstract
Musical notes in the form of representations of objects or creatures familiar to young children and which connote the name of a tone and are depicted on the musical staff and on instrumentalities which generate the tone.
Claims10
The combination of at least one first musical note constituted only by a representation of one of a three dimensional object and creature readily identifiable by a young child and including physical indicia constituting means connoting the alphabetical name of but one of the tones of the musical scale;
- with a musical staff in which said representation constituting said first musical note is on said staff occupying a position designated for said but one tone;
- and with one of a singular musical instrument having a plurality of instrumentalities which generate all of the tones of the musical scale including an instrumentality which generates said but one tone and a representation of said singular musical instrument including representations of instrumentalities which generate all of the tones of the musical scale including a representation of an instrumentality which generates said but one tone, and at least one second musical note which is a duplicate of said first mentioned musical note, said second musical note being constituted only by a representation of the same one of a three dimensional object and creature as said representation constituting said first musical note, readily identifiable by a young child and constituting means connoting the same musical tone as connoted by said representation constituting said first musical note, and said second musical note is on said instrumentality which generates said but one tone included in said one of said singular musical instrument and representation of said singular musical instrument, said combination constituting means for a young student to read said first musical note on said staff occupying said position designated for said but one tone and to play the tone connoted by said representation of one of said object and creature on said singular musical instrument or representation thereof.
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