Apparatus for Facilitating Instruction in Musical Notation.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 24th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Facilitating Instruction in Musical Notation.
I, FREDERIC KUNOSY, Printer, of Terez-körut 38, Budapest, Hungary, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object, to modify a well-known children's game in such
a manner, that it can be used for teaching musical notation.
The apparatus consists of cubes of uniform size, which can be placed together in
several rows, each cube bearing on one or more of its sides a musical sign.
Hitherto such cubes have been used as a game for composing pictures, each side of
a cube forming part of such a picture.
According to my invention, one side of the cube may form part of a picture as
usual, while the other sides bear notes or other musical signs forming part of a
melody or of different melodies, according to the manner in which the cubes are
placed together in rows. The different notes may be marked with their names, or
accompanied with syllables composing a song.
The note marks and other signs may be produced by printing directly on the
material of the blocks or cubes, or by printing on a sheet of paper or other
material and fixing the latter to the cube.
Dated this 5th day of April 1893.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Facilitating Instruction in Musical Notation.
I, FREDERIC KUNOSY, Printer, of Terez-körut 38, Budapest, Hungary, 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:
This invention has for its object, to modify a well-known children's game in such
a manner, that it can be used for teaching musical notation.
The apparatus is illustrated by the accompanying drawings and consists of
cubes, a, a, of uniform size, which can be placed together in several rows, each cube
bearing on one or more of its sides a musical sign. Hitherto such cubes have been
used as a game for composing pictures, each side of a cube forming part of such a
picture.
According to my invention, one side b of the cube may form part of a picture as
usual, while the other sides bear notes or other musical signs forming part of a
melody or of different melodies, according to the manner in which the cubes are
placed together in rows. The different notes may be marked with their names or
accompanied with syllables c composing a song.
The note marks and other signs may be produced by printing directly on the
material of the blocks or cubes, or by printing on a sheet of paper or other
material and fixing the latter to the cube.
Instead of geometrical cubes, rectangular prisms may be used.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. Apparatus for facilitating instruction in musical notation, which consists of a
set of rectangular blocks each of which has on one side or on several sides a
musical sign or signs, with or without the addition of letters, substantially as
described.
2. Apparatus for facilitating instruction in musical notation, which consists of
rectangular blocks bearing on one side or on more sides musical signs, while
another side bears part of a picture, substantially as described.
Dated this 2nd day of January 1894.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
433, Strand, London, Agents.