Patent ID: 9378720
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: G10D,G10H

Claim Text:
1. A hand-held micro-practicing device for emulating a portion of a full size instrument having a plurality of strings and a plurality of frets, the device comprising: a body portion; a fingerboard configured to operate in a stationary position relative to the body portion, the fingerboard being adapted to emulate only a subset of the plurality of frets of the full size instrument; a plurality of capacitive sensors adapted to generate positional signals indicative of a position of a user's finger with respect to the emulated frets; a fret selector adapted to select which frets of the plurality of frets of the full size instrument are included in the subset of frets and to generate fret data indicating that selection; and a processor adapted to receive the positional signals and the fret data and to translate the positional signals and the fret data into musical information.