Improved Means for Facilitating the Learning of Musical Scales and Arpeggios.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Facilitating the Learning of Musical Scales and
Arpeggios.
I, HARRY WOOLLEY, of Shaw Road, South Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire,
Mus. Doc., B.A., F.R.C.O., and L.T.C.L., do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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According to this invention a series of cardboard or other tickets is prepared on
each of which the name of one scale or one arpeggio is printed or otherwise
inscribed such scale or arpeggio in each case being different from that on any
other ticket Such tickets are then mixed together in a miscellaneous manner and
placed in a box or its equivalent so that the student when practising can take out
one of such tickets and play the scale or arpeggio indicated thereon. By this
means the student readily learns to play any particular scale or arpeggio that
may be required, at once without any hesitation or uncertainty which is a great
advantage. The series of tickets may be arranged to include either a particular
set of scales and arpeggios, or all possible ones as desired,
Dated him th
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1000
ELT & Co.,
Registered Patent Agents, 43, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for Applicant.
Improved Means for Facilitating the Learning of Musical Scales
and Arpeggios.
I, HARRY WOOLLEY, of Shaw Road, South Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire,
Mus. Doc., B.A., F.R.C.O., and L.T.C.L., do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement; -
According to this invention a series of cardboard, metal, or other tickets is
prepared, on one or both sides of each of which tickets the name of a scale or
of an arpeggio is inscribed or printed. When both sides of the ticket are utilized,
the name of the scale or arpeggio appearing on one side is different from the
name of the scale or arpeggio appearing on the other side, thus increasing the
utility of the ticket by making it an indicator of two different scales or arpeggios
-Or the name of a scale may be inscribed on one side and the name of an
arpeggio on the other side of the ticket.
Such tickets are then mixed together in a miscellaneous manner and placed in
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page_text: a box or other suitable receptacle, so that a student, when practising, can take out
any one of such tickets and play the scale or arpeggio, or scale and arpeggio,
indicated thereon. By this means the student readily learns to play any particular
scale or arpeggio that may be required at once, without any hesitation or un-
certainty, which is a great advantage.
The series of tickets may be arranged to include either a particular set of scales
and arpeggios, or all possible ones, as desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
As an improved means-for-facilitating the learning of musical scales and arpeg-
gios, one or more series of tickets, each of which tickets is inscribed, either on
one or on both sides, with the name of a musical scale or arpeggio, or with the
name of a musical scale on one side, and the name of an arpeggio on the reverse
side, in combination with a suitable box, or other equivalent receptacle, all sub-
stantially as herein before described.
ELT & Co.,
Registered Patent Agents,
43, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, London, Agents for Applicant.