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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2011
James F. Antaki, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
James F. Antaki, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
AntakaMatics, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides an apparatus and method for notating music for a harmonica. The apparatus incorporates a vertical staff in which vertical lines or tracks represent individual notes, the length of which represents duration of the note, and the horizontal location represents the physical location of the corresponding hole in a harmonica. The invention provides a rapid means of learning to play a harmonica and, for experienced players, provides a means for sight reading a new piece of music. The invention further provides ways of representing the dynamics of both pitch and loudness and a convenient way to manually transcribe musical selection for archival purposes.