Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1883
Complete Specification Left, 29th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 8th June, 1889
I, MARY PENELOPE LINSCOTT of No. 86 Shirland Road, St. Peters Park in tho
County of Middlesex, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to an appliance for teaching children musical notation which is
arranged as follows: provide a frame having five horizontal bars representing the
lines of the stave, or it may be a board with these lines visibly marked on it, and
I provide a set of cardboard or wooden models of notes of different time, such as
crotchets and quavers &c, also bars, rests or other marks used in musical notation.
The pupil can handle these models placing them on or between the lines also above
and below the five lines or stave and thus can readily acquire a knowledge of their
respective values.
In some cases the frame may contain or the board may be marked with additional
bars above and below the stave to indicate ledger lines, which should be made of less
thickness so as not to confuse them with the lines of the stave.
1344
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, MARY PENELOPE LINSCOTT of No. 86 Shirland Road, St. Peters Park in the
County of Middlesex, Spinster, 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:-
My invention relates to an appliance for teaching children musical notation,
which is arranged as follows:-I provide a frame having five horizontal bars repre-
senting the lines of the stave, or it may be a board with these lines visibly marked on
it, and I provide a set of cardboard or wooden models of notes of different time, such
as crotchets and quavers &c., also bars, rests or other marks used in musical notation.
The pupil can handle these models placing them on or between the lines also above
and below the five lines or stave and thus can readily acquire a knowledge of their
respective values.
In some cases the frame may contain or the board may be marked with additional
bars above and below the stave to indicate ledger lines.
When the frame or board is used in a horizontal position it need only be marked
with the required lines, the model notes, or other symbols being merely laid upon it
in their appropriate places. It may however be necessary to place the board vertical
or nearly so, in which case the model notes or symbols have to be attached to it in
such a way that they do not fall off. The fixing may be done by providing each
model with a pin which can be inserted in any one of a number of holes made in the
board, or the models may be perforated and the board may have projecting rows of
pins on any of which a model can be hung. Or the frame or board and the models
may be made as I shall explain referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a front view of part of the board, Fig. 2 is a section on XX, Fig. 3 is a
section on YY, Figs. 4 and 5 shew to a smaller scale respectively a front view and
a plan of the board made in portable form.
The board A has projecting from its face 5 thin ribs B representing the 5 lines of
the clef, and there may be additional shorter ribs e representing ledger lines. Each
model note such as that of a crotelict D or E is made with a back piece having its
upper and lower sides flat and having a slot along its middle, so that it can be put on
a space between any two of the ribs B between which its back piece fits as shewn
at E, or it can be put on one of the ribs which enters its slot as shown at D. For
convenience of transport I prefer to make the board in two parts hinged togethor in

page_text: the middle as shewn at G, a fillet F somewhat deeper than the ribs B being made all
round the board, so that the two halves can be folded together as indicated by the
dotted lines in Fig. 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1 claim is :-
As an appliance for teaching musical notation, a board or frame with stave lines or
bars and models of notes and other musical symbols to be laid thereon or attached
thereto substantially as described.