Improvements in Musical Game Devices.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1895
Improvements in Musical Game Devices.
A communication by ABBIE TORREY HAYS, HENRY MUNTZ, and NORMAN B.
HAGIN, all of Wichita, in the County of Sedgwick and State of Kansas,
United States of America.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E. of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, 118 New Street, Birmingham in
the County of Warwick and 31 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, 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 relates to certain improvements in musical game devices wherein
the letters on the staff are represented by pictures, and consists of a chart composed
of a staff with the notes, the printed letters above each note and a picture
representing the letters on the staff in connection with small cards made of some
material that can be written on with a pencil and easily erased, the said cards
containing the staff and pictures, also cubic blocks having the staff on all sides
with a picture illustrating the letters on the staff.
Referring to the drawings,
Figure 1 represents a chart with music staves printed thereon with pictures
representing the letters of the staff;
Figures 2, 3, and 4 are small cards or slates with the staff printed on them and a
picture that represents an article that can be spelled by letters on the staff;
Figure 5 represents a cubic block made of several smaller blocks with the staff
printed on them and the pictures printed part on the joining corners of each of the
blocks;
Figure 6 represents one of the cubic blocks used to make up the large block with
part of the staff printed thereon and a part of a picture representing an object, the
spelling of which will give the letters of the notes on the staff.
Referring to these drawings, 1 represents a card on which the staves 6 having the
notes are printed. 2 represents the letters above each note on the staff designating
what letter each note is. 3 represents pictures representing some object, the
spelling of which will indicate the letters on the staff. 4 represents a staff on
which the notes are to be written with pencil to spell the article illustrated by the
picture 3 on each slate or card 7. 5 represents cubic blocks on which a staff is
printed with the notes and a portion of a picture indicating the notes on the staff.
These cards, charts and blocks are to be used in playing games for the purpose of
teaching children to read and write the notes on the staff and are played as
follows: :-
The chart 1 is placed before a class in such a position that all can see it. The
cards are then handed out and those in the class are expected to copy that part of
the chart 1 on the card that is indicated by the picture on the card. After each
pupil has become familiar with the chart, the blank cards are passed to the class
and the pupil is directed to fill the cards in his hand with notes representing the
objects on the cards. The blocks 5, as represented in Figures 5 and 6, have the
staff printed on all six sides together with part of the pictures on the corner of each
block, so that when the blocks are placed properly together the pictures on all
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page_text: sides will be complete with three sides of each small block, exposed when by
changing any one of them they will, all have to be changed to make them correspond,
thus getting the child familiar with the notes on the staff.
The chart 1 may be used without the cards for the purpose of teaching music to
older pupils.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In the herein described musical game apparatus, the chart having a music
staff with notes printed thereon, and pictures representing some object, the spelling
of which will indicate the notes by letters on the staff.
2. In a musical game, the combination of a chart having a staff with notes
printed thereon, the printed letters indicating what letter each of said notes are,
the pictures illustrating some object, the spelling of which will indicate the letters
of the notes on the staff and the cards or slates having the staff and illustrations
printed thereon substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 21st day of November 1895.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.