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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Applicant:
David Honeywell, Lincoln, CA (US);
Inventor:
David Honeywell, Lincoln, CA (US);
Assignee:
Burgett, Inc., Sacramento, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method of controlling note velocity within an electronically controlled player piano in response to the analog characteristics (level, strength, amplitude, etc.) of a received audio signal encoded with a MIDI (or similar) note stream. The invention allows conventional audio playback devices to be utilized as a source for MIDI information which drives the actuation of the keys of the player piano.