Making Toys

Prior Art and a new name???

ART:

Kraakdoos – Michel Waisvisz and Geert Hamelberg – 1960s

Folgerphone – Nolan Hatcher and Craig Nutt – 1979

Gittler Guitar – Allane Gittler – 1970s and 80s
played by Andy Summers of the Police on “Syncronicity II”

Gravikord – Robert Grawl – 1986

SynthAxe – Bill Aiken – 1986

Ztar – Starr Labs – 1980s-Present

Kaisatsuko – Yuichi Onoue – 2003

Moodswinger – Yuri Landman – 2006
played by Alex Hemphill of the Liars on “Leather Prowler”
Yamaha EZ-TP MIDI Trumpet – Currently available ($350)
Yamaha WX-5 MIDI Woodwind – Currently available ($350)

PATENTS:
1942Electrical Clarinet
1959 Device for measuring speech

1965 – VOLUME CONTROL APPARATUS FOR A SINGLE-TONE .ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
1966 Fluid Pressure Actuated Sensor controlled instrument
1969 Electrical Woodwind Synthesizer
1969 Breath Control sensor for single-tone musical instrument

1971 Electric Reed Mouthpiece
1973 Electronic wind instrument
1975 Electrically Operated Music
1976 Trumpet using variable wind pressure post valves then feeding into synthesizer
1976 A method for capturing sound actually housed inside the mouth
1977 Breath pressure actuated electronic instrument
1978 Pressure transducer for musical instruments
1979 Voice controlled instrument
1979 Control system for an electronic music synthesizer

1981 Wind sensing mouthpiece for electronic instruments
1982 Musical apparatus
1984 Hand-held musical instrument and systems including a man-machine interface
1985 Musical instrument
1987 Musical Instrument (flute)
1988 Synthesized Whistle
1988 Entertainment and creative expression device for easily playing along to background music
1989 Detection of Musical Gestures

1990 Musical wear – finger switched by Hideo Suzuki for Yamaha
1990Air flow response controlled musical instrument
1990 Electronic musical instrument with pitch alteration function
1991 Electronic Saxophone
1991Musical keyboard for buttonless woodwind synthesizer
1991 Electronic musical instrument with a tone parameter control function
1991 Electronic musical instrument with improved generation of wind instruments
1992 Electronic musical instrument with selection of standard sound pitch of a natural instrument
1992 Pitch data output apparatus for electronic musical instrument having movable members
1993 Breath controller for musical instruments
1995 Electronic musical instrument with tone generation control
1995 Electronic musical instrument having key after-sensors and stroke sensors to determine differences between key depressions
1996 Musical instrument having voice function
1997 Hands-free input device for operating a computer having mouthpiece with plurality of cells
1997 Wind instruments with electronic tubing length control
1998 Hybrid electronic and acoustic musical instrument
1999 Electronic wind instrument capable of diversified performance expression
1999 Woodwind-styled electronic musical instrument

2002 Musical instruments that generate notes according to sounds and manually selected scales
2002 Musical wind instrument and method for controlling such an instrument
2003 Voice-controlled electronic instrument
2003 Wind controller for music synthesizer
2005 Musical tone generating apparatus and method for generating musical tone on the basis of detection of pitch of input vibration signal
2006 Hybrid wind instrument selectively producing acoustic tones
2008Tone generator control apparatus and program for electronic wind instrument
2009 Electric wind instrument and key detection structure thereof
2010 Hybrid wind musical instrument and electric system incorporated therein
2010 Instrument
2010 Flute controller driven dynamic synthesis system
2010 Wind musical instrument with pitch changing mechanism and supporting system

TITLE CHANGE?
I think the term “Ghost Music” is too vague and helped to contribute to Yuri’s feeling that I needed to restate my central thesis again. What about “The Transparent Brass Band”? Then you get the nice consonance of “Transparent Trumpet,” “Transparent Trombone” and “Transparent Tuba.”