Patent ID: 7301090

Claim:
A piano key finder and chord indicator, comprising: an outer sleeve, said outer sleeve being formed of semi-rigid material and having a surface, top and bottom edges, first and second ends, and an interior cavity; said interior cavity being open at said first and second ends of said outer sleeve; said outer sleeve having a representation of a portion of a piano keyboard on and first and second sets of openings penetrating said surface; a slide member, said slide member having a surface, first and second ends, and being sized and shaped to fit slidably within said interior cavity; said surface of said slide member having a first portion and a second portion; said first portion carrying alphabetic representations, said representations being sized and shaped to be visible through said first set of openings in said outer sleeve as said slide member is moved through said outer sleeve; said alphabetic representations illustrating a selected musical key, a major scale, a major chord and a minor chord associated with said musical key; said second portion having a first series of markings, said first markings being sized and shaped to be visible through said second set of openings in said outer sleeve as said slide member is moved through said outer sleeve; said first markings indicating piano keys associated with the major scale associated with said selected musical key; and whereby, when a user moves the slide member within said inner cavity of said outer sleeve, aligning one of the first set of openings in the outer sleeve with one of the alphabetic representations illustrating a selected musical key, the alphabetic representations for each note of the major scale as well as major and minor chords associated with that selected musical key will be visible through the first set of openings and the first markings indicating the piano keys associated with the major scale will be visible through the second set of openings.