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US 7,667,119 B1Granted
Portable keyboard system
AssigneeSchlapkohl Investments LLC
InventorThomas P. Schlapkohl
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Abstract
A portable keyboard system having a pair of keyboards rigidly secured to and directed outward from one another. The keyboard system is secured to a user with shoulder straps, which allow the user to control one keyboard with each hand. The keyboards are separately adjustable across several sound and intensity parameters.
Claims6
A musical instrument comprising:
- (a) a first keyboard comprising:
- (i) a first plurality of long keys;
- (ii) a first plurality of short keys;
- (iii) a first side;
- (iv) a second side;
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- (v) wherein said first side is closer to said first plurality of short keys than said second side;
- (b) a second keyboard comprising:
- (i) a second plurality of long keys;
- (ii) a second plurality of short keys;
- (iii) a third side;
- (iv) a fourth side;
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- (v) wherein said third side is closer to said second plurality of short keys than said fourth side;
- (c) wherein a distance between said first side and said third side is shorter than a distance between said second side and said fourth side;
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- (d) a shoulder harness coupled to said first keyboard and said second keyboard, wherein the first and second keyboards are arranged by the harness in a playable position on the chest of a single musician, and the body holding the first and second keyboards are in a rigid, fixed relationship to each other.
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