Patent ID: 8227679

Claim:
A musical stave reader for children, as a tool for teaching musical language, comprising a loudspeaker ( 7 ), the reader also incorporating a socket for headphones ( 9 ), and a keyboard ( 4 ) the musical stave reader comprising a lower casing ( 1 ) and an upper casing ( 2 ) on which the keyboard ( 3 ) of buttons and LEDs is placed, wherein the keyboard comprises: an upper part ( 4 ), wherein the upper part of the keyboard ( 4 ) shows the musical stave ( 41 ) in treble clef with thirteen LEDs ( 42 ) in positions of musical notes; a central part ( 5 ), wherein the central part of the keyboard ( 5 ) incorporates another musical stave with a distribution of notes in a harmonic or vertical manner ( 51 ), a lower part ( 6 ), wherein first plurality of buttons ( 61 ) of the lower part ( 6 ) access control of a Tempo Function, and a second plurality of buttons ( 62 ) of the lower part ( 6 ) access a Volume Function and the lower part ( 6 ) of the keyboard includes a third plurality of control buttons for higher functions of lessons and games of an advanced operation mode, which is formed by eleven buttons and ten LEDS, including a Stop Function button ( 71 ), a Play Function LED ( 72 ) and a button ( 73 ) to start playing of sounds stored in an order in which they were played during a recording, a Record Function LED ( 74 ) and button ( 75 ) and an integrated base plate; and a processor ( 8 ) controlling the entire operation and containing the computer application which reads pressings of the buttons available in the keyboard ( 3 ); wherein depending on the buttons pressed by the user, the processor makes a decision and executes a response; wherein the reader has two operation modes, a basic operation mode and the advanced operation mode, in which the basic operation mode is recognized because none of the LEDs ( 63 , 65 , 67 , 69 , 72 and 74 ) associated with the advanced operation mode are lit up; wherein in the basic operation mode, the vertical stave ( 51 ) of the central part of the keyboard operates as if it were an electronic piano.