Abstract A device for teaching elementary musical relationships and notation particularly in regard to scale tones and chords and uniquely associated with pre-known names and order of the user''s fingers on both hands. Incidentally the same numbering of the fingers, from left to right in each also teaches, by assocation, the first five degrees by numerical name. The two hands are on a panel which also supports one of a set of strip inserts carrying, for example, treble and bass clef notation for a particular key signature and the first five, or lower five, notes or tones of that diationic scale, it being proposed that the student will ordinarily have no difficulty whatever in extrapolating the ''''mini-scale'''' of five tones to the full octave and then to octaves above and below that learned by use of the device. For teaching chords a pair of hands are provided with three fingers only on each hand denominated as Root, 3rd and 5th degree and also correlated as before with fingers named in that order, left to right so that the Root tone is associated with the little finger of left hand for the bass clef and the thumb of the right hand for the treble clef, the remaining tones following in this natural learning order, and every finger visually related with the corresponding notation by lead lines of obvious significance to the user.
Inventors
👤 V Leonard
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionUS
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-11-09 22:18
CPC Classifications
G; G09; G09B; G09B15/00; G09B15/001; G09B15/004
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
206 words
A teaching aid based on scale degrees correlated with the fingers for teaching recognition of the first five scale tones of diatonic scales, comprising: a panel having a set of hands simultaneously displayed thereon including a right hand and a left hand spaced apart and having the digits thereof pointing generally toward one edge of the panel, the digits of both hands having similar numerical order identification, increasing from left to right, so that the thumb of the left hand and the little finger of the right hand represent a fifth position, while the little finger of the left hand and the thumb of the right hand represent the first and root position in the scale concerned; an elongated strip insert having a plurality of musical notations grouped thereon in two sections, each section being juxtaposed to one of said hands; means on said panel adjacent to said one edge thereof holding said insert so that said notations are individually displayed in obviously recognizable positional relationship with said digits; and a second set of hands, said sets being mounted on said panel for selective exposure of the sets, one of said sets having only three extended digits to represent chords rather than said five tone scale.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
206 words
A teaching aid based on scale degrees correlated with the fingers for teaching recognition of the first five scale tones of diatonic scales, comprising: a panel having a set of hands simultaneously displayed thereon including a right hand and a left hand spaced apart and having the digits thereof pointing generally toward one edge of the panel, the digits of both hands having similar numerical order identification, increasing from left to right, so that the thumb of the left hand and the little finger of the right hand represent a fifth position, while the little finger of the left hand and the thumb of the right hand represent the first and root position in the scale concerned; an elongated strip insert having a plurality of musical notations grouped thereon in two sections, each section being juxtaposed to one of said hands; means on said panel adjacent to said one edge thereof holding said insert so that said notations are individually displayed in obviously recognizable positional relationship with said digits; and a second set of hands, said sets being mounted on said panel for selective exposure of the sets, one of said sets having only three extended digits to represent chords rather than said five tone scale.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
30 words
A teaching aid according to claim 1 wherein said second set of hands are shiftably mounted on said panel to take the place of the first mentioned set of hands.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
36 words
A teaching aid according to claim 2 wherein the second and fourth digits of each of said second set of hands are knuckled down, and said second set of hands are pivotally mounted on said panel.