A gaming platform including a touch panel having a contact surface that a user may contact to operate the gaming platform to perform a gaming function. A plurality of touch regions divides the contact surface into a plurality of discrete regions. Each touch region may correspond to a different gaming function such that contacting the contact surface of the touch panel within a particular touch region causes the gaming platform to perform a corresponding gaming function. The gaming platform may include a plurality of touch regions each corresponding to the gaming platform playing a different musical note. In this configuration, each touch region may correspond to a key, string, striking surface, or other musical part for playing a particular musical note.

An accordion includes a right hand play side, a left hand play side, a bellow provided between the right hand play side and the left hand play side. A plurality of columns of buttons provide on at least one of the right hand play side and the left hand play side. Each of the plurality of columns may have at least three buttons to which three single pitches are assigned, the three single pitches constituting a triad major chord. Embodiments of the present invention provide a user-friendly system for accordionists that can also cover more than 90% of the accordion songs being public in the world.

A handheld musical instrument for playing a variety of audio program, the handheld musical instrument includes a main body portion with one or more sensors, a handle portion engaged with said main body portion, wherein said handle portion includes one or more control buttons to select a type of program to be played by said handheld musical instrument and a gesture detection module for detecting gestures associated with said handheld musical instrument and controlling a tempo associated with said program played by said handheld musical instrument based on said detected gestures.

A modulating keyboard having a relative transposition in an electronic keyboard musical instrument and a method for relative transposition are provided. An instrument includes a keyboard having a plurality of first keys alternating with a plurality of second keys and a modulator system coupled to the keyboard. The modulator system is configured to assign note values to each of the first keys and the second keys such that, for each key signature, notes associated with the key signature are assigned to the plurality of first keys and notes not in the key signature are assigned to the plurality of second keys.

An accordion includes a right hand play side, a left hand play side, a bellow, four rows of buttons, and two rows of buttons. The four rows of buttons include a first column to which first continuous four pitches are assigned, a second column to which second continuous four pitches are assigned, and a third column to which third continuous four pitches are assigned. The two rows of buttons include a first column to which first continuous two pitches are assigned, the first continuous two pitches being continuous from or to the first continuous four pitches, a second column to which second continuous two pitches are assigned, the second continuous two pitches being continuous from or to the second continuous four pitches, and a third column to which third continuous two pitches are assigned, the third continuous two pitches being continuous from or to the third continuous four pitches.

An accordion includes a right hand play side, a left hand play side, a bellow, four rows of buttons, and two rows of buttons. The four rows of buttons include a first column to which first continuous four pitches are assigned, a second column to which second continuous four pitches are assigned, and a third column to which third continuous four pitches are assigned. The two rows of buttons include a first column to which first continuous two pitches are assigned, the first continuous two pitches being continuous from or to the first continuous four pitches, a second column to which second continuous two pitches are assigned, the second continuous two pitches being continuous from or to the second continuous four pitches, and a third column to which third continuous two pitches are assigned, the third continuous two pitches being continuous from or to the third continuous four pitches.

Improvisation or playing along with a musical group or with a song is enjoyable to people and musicians of all ability levels. However, it is easy to play notes which do not harmonize with other notes and pitches which are being played. Provided herein is a method, computer program product and electronic device for assigning a set of pitches to a plurality of cells of an electronic device having a touch screen input device. The method may include the steps of obtaining an input chord, disassembling the chord into at least one base note and a plurality of individual voices, arranging a predetermined number of voices of the chord according to at least one predefined rule, and assigning at least one set of pitches to a plurality of cells of an electronic device, said set of pitches corresponding to the base note and arranged predetermined number of voices of the chord. The present method allows a musician to freely play along without the possibility of playing an errant note as the user does not control the actual pitch associated with the cells being indicated by a user on the touch screen.

Musical instruments are circumscribed to their physical boundaries. They produce sound through vibrations at different frequencies constraint by the instruments themselves. The representation of these frequencies, rather than geometrical and mathematically simple, is the result of very complex vibration patterns. Some instruments get away with arranging individual notes to the player's convenience by the inclusion of multiple individual instruments within one body. The piano is a prominent example of an instrument with manipulated note architecture. It has an individual musical instrument for each sound although still circumscribed to a common body with its sound implications. However it follows a chromatic pattern, including consecutive series of each musical note according to its pitch rather than taking full advantage of its opportunity to translate the complex frequency behavior of notes into geometrical, visual patterns. On the other hand, we introduce the Keyboard, an instrument intended to accommodate for the sound of most instruments, but still resembling the pattern of one of them, the piano. Like the piano, still forces players to separate their fingers by predetermined amount of spaces over other keys to obtain basic chords. Moreover, when trying to change the way the chords sound through changing their voicing, the fingers pattern changes widely. Not to mention, this happens even with the use of white keys only; it gets much more complicated when the black keys are incorporated into the musical play. At present, there has been a tendency for technology and games to providing for people to feel like they are playing musical instruments, to mention, Guitar Hero, Wii Music, etc. People are eager to try these games as within most people there is a desired of understanding music and musical instruments but find themselves incapable of learning and developing instrument specific musical skills, especially as time goes by. New Board of Keys patterns are proposed. These key patterns prioritize on the visualization and building of chords. Although with similitude to the keyboard in the sense of providing for pressing individual keys and to the guitar in the sense of allowing multiple instances of each particular note, they provide for a simplified way for common people, on instances limited by time or abilities to further developing musical skills to use a visual, simple way of learning and playing music. Moreover, these new boards of keys provide for reapplying learned music patterns for any given key to every single music key, a feature rarely found in musical instruments.

The present invention provides touch sensor means for detecting the touch location along the length of an outfitted piano key as it is pressed, so as to then offset the notes of an associated piano keyboard accordingly during play. When such an outfitted key is pressed in combination with other piano keys, the touch location along the length of the outfitted key, and the separation intervals and timing of the key presses, are analyzed to determine the intended chord, such that before any notes are sounded, the notes of the pressed keys are configured for the sounding of that chord. This arrangement enables playing a wide range of notes using just a few keys, so as to provide a substantially reduced-size keyboard with full-sized keys sufficient for real-time playing. This arrangement also enables configuring the note offsets of those pressed keys to conform to a selected musical key, so as to simplify the layout of the keyboard by eliminating its black keys, while still supporting the playing of non-conforming notes. This arrangement further enables applying pitch variation to those note offsets in order to emulate the string stretching, whammy bar, and fretless neck playing techniques for guitars and basses. This arrangement even further enables playing advanced chords in a simplified manner. Finally, this arrangement enables providing a wide assortment of keyboards that can differ in the type, number, size, and functionality of their outfitted keys.

The present invention provides touch sensor means for detecting the touch location along the length of an outfitted piano key as it is pressed, so as to then offset the notes of an associated piano keyboard accordingly during play. When such an outfitted key is pressed in combination with other piano keys, the touch location along the length of the outfitted key, and the separation intervals and timing of the key presses, are analyzed to determine the intended chord, such that before any notes are sounded, the notes of the pressed keys are configured for the sounding of that chord. This arrangement enables playing a wide range of notes using just a few keys, so as to provide a substantially reduced-size keyboard with full-sized keys sufficient for real-time playing. This arrangement also enables configuring the note offsets of those pressed keys to conform to a selected musical key, so as to simplify the layout of the keyboard by eliminating its black keys, while still supporting the playing of non-conforming notes. This arrangement further enables applying pitch variation to those note offsets in order to emulate the string stretching, whammy bar, and fretless neck playing techniques for guitars and basses. This arrangement even further enables playing advanced chords in a simplified manner. Finally, this arrangement enables providing a wide assortment of keyboards that can differ in the type, number, size, and functionality of their outfitted keys.