An augmented reality system is provided, including a physical apparatus operable to change detectably by a human between a first state and a second state, and an augmented reality application. The physical apparatus includes a signal receiver for receiving a signal, and at least one controllable element operable to effect the change between the first state and the second state upon receiving the signal. The AR application, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, the computing device having at least one camera and a display, cause the computing device to capture at least one image of the physical apparatus, generate a virtual reality object that is presented in the at least one image on the display, and transmit the signal to the physical apparatus to cause the at least one controllable element of the physical apparatus to switch between the first state and the second state.

A drum tuning key includes a body having a longitudinal axis, a first end and a second end, the first end including a keyed interface configured to releaseably engage an element of a tuning assembly of a drum for cooperative rotation therewith and the second end including a radially-extending portion configured to be manipulated by a user to apply a torque in relation to the longitudinal axis to operate the tuning assembly, and a magnet carried by the body and having a first end, a second end, and an axis of magnetization extending between the first end and the second end, wherein at least one of the first end or the second end of the magnet is located at or adjacent an outer surface of the body.

A drumstick having an attachment to strap it to the thumb of the drummer. The attachment also goes through a hole in the drumstick to allow the stick to freely rotate in its proper plane of motion, allowing the drummer the chance to practice drumming without overly squeezing the drumstick as well as playing the drums with no risk of dropping the drumsticks.

A dual action pedal device utilizing the forward section of a musical bass drum pedal foot board to strike a musical bass drum and an attached heel controlled piston to open/close musical hi-hat cymbals. By pressing in a downward motion the heel of a human foot closes musical hi-hat cymbals under spring pressure. Upon raising a human foots heel from the aforementioned piston the hi-hat cymbals open under spring pressure thus making this device a dual action pedal.

A wooden drumstick that is treated by direct heating by exposure to a flame to improve hardness characteristics by altering the state of fibers in an outer layer of the drum stick relative to inner fibers below the outer layer. A method of manufacturing a treated drumstick includes selecting a wooden starting material, forming a drumstick profile from the wooden starting material, and exposing the drumstick profile directly to a flame.

A percussion instrument configured as a shaker that is struck or shaken to produce a rattle or shaking sound. The shaker is a flexible, multi-chambered idiophone that can be struck or shaken at any angle or shaped into any number of configurations in order to generate a wide variety of sound characteristics. Furthermore, the flexibility of the shaker enables the instrument to be secured to a multi-purpose mounting bracket, which can then be attached to commonly available stands and arms that are used to support and arrange drums and cymbals.

This drumstick is a telescoping, interchangeable, drumstick/shaker; it includes a hollow tube body with removable shaft screw collars on each end; it has smaller tube shaker cartridges with a smaller circumference than the inner tube which allows the user to combine the drumstick with a maraca like sound if they so please. There is also another smaller tube that is attached to the small tail end portion, directly around the different drumstick types that allows the drumsticks to telescope through the entire length of the larger tubes inner circumference which can be used for dispensing, storage, and playing. This allows the end user to freely configure it to his or her own will.

A table stringed musical instrument includes string fastening members in an instrument structure. The string fastening members receive and fasten strings to the instrument structure. The instrument is a free stringed musical instrument configured for one or more, advantageously at least two or four or more players so that the string fastening members are grouped for at least two, advantageously at least four or more physically separate groups and additionally so that the strings to be received and fastened are thereby grouped for at least two or four or more separate groups and thereby for at least two or four or more different player positions. The first group of the string fastening members receives the first group of strings. The second group of the string fastening members receives the second group of strings, etc. The strings of the first group differ from those of the second group.

A drum foot pedal apparatus includes: a coil spring imparting resilient self-returning force to a foot board; a rod member (or an adjusting bolt) supported by a support section provided on a support post member; and a tension adjustment mechanism provided between the coil spring and the rod member. The tension adjustment mechanism includes a connection position adjustment section that interconnects the lower end of the coil spring and the rod member above the support post member, and that is constructed to permit adjustment of a connection position between the lower end of the coil spring and the rod member or the adjusting bolt at a position above the support section. Thus, it is possible to effectively prevent frictional wear of component parts and generation of noise and achieve an enhanced operability in the tension adjustment, with a simple construction having a minimized number of component parts.

A percussion system comprising a pedal and an inserting/retracting mechanism operably connected to a percussion instrument and the pedal from moving the percussion instrument horizontally from a first position to a second position and from the second position to the first position by operation of the pedal.