Patent ID: 7212213

Claim:
A display instrument for operation by a user to graphically display musical notes in a selection of music extending over a range of note groups, comprising: an input device, a computer processor coupled to the input device for receiving input from the input device and configured to respond to a) a color for each musical note in a reference note group input by the user from the input device, with related musical notes in other note groups in the range having a different shade of the color of the musical note in the reference note group, to create a color palette for the musical notes in the range of note groups, b) musical notes in the selection of music and to match the musical notes to their color and shade in the color palette so as to determine a display color for each of the musical notes, c) pattern attributes input by the user from the input device to determine a display pattern for each of the musical notes, and d) position attributes input by the user from the input device to determine a display position for the display pattern for each of the musical notes, said processor further configured to generate a display signal based on the display colors, the display patterns and the display positions, and a video display device coupled to the processor for receiving the display signal and for providing a dynamic graphical display of the musical notes on the display device.