Patent ID: 7985913

Claim:
A system for producing Braille musical scores, comprising: a computer processor; a music keyboard connected to the computer processor, wherein the computer processor is loaded with software that assigns six keys of the music keyboard to Braille entry, such that depression of any of the assigned six keys, either singly or as a simultaneous key combination, is interpreted by the computer processor as a Braille cell; means for extracting (1) music note data comprising pitch and duration information, and (2) non-note data comprising text, line, and symbol information from a digital music data input played on the music keyboard; means for correlating the music note data and the non-note data with Braille cell data to create a digital Braille music score from the Braille cell data representing both music and text information; and means for outputting a Braille music score from the created digital Braille music score.