Patent Document ID: 4464971
Application ID: 06314376
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A musical education apparatus for displaying musical notation for purposes of musical instruction and composition, said apparatus comprising: display board means including a substantially flat planar display board having at least one side exposed to a user; staff indicia means restrainably attached at its first side to said substantially flat display board; staff indicia means having indicia attachment means on its second side, opposite to said first side, for the removable attachment of musical notation indicia means thereon; clef indicia means operably attached to said staff indicia means and which cooperates with said staff indicia means to denote the particular clef of said staff; said notation indicia means comprising a plurality of musical notation indicia having a front side and a back side thereto; said back side of said musical notation indicia means having indicia attachment means which cooperate with the indicia attachment means on the second side of said staff indicia means to permit said removable attachment of said notation indicia means to said staff indicia means at any position atop said staff indicia means; said notation indicia means having duration indicia associated therewith to denote the particular length of time which each of said notation indicia means is to be accorded musical significance; teaching theory conversion means for converting and enabling said staff indicia means to be used with a variety of alternative musical education training devices; said teaching theory conversion means having conversion attachment means operably associated therewith so as to enable the operable removable attachment of said teaching theory conversion means atop one or more of said display board means, said staff indicia means, said notation indica means and other said theory conversion means in any position relative thereto, respectively, for unrestricted positionable display thereupon; said teaching theory conversion means enabling the aligned superimposing of said notation indicia means with said teaching conversion means to, in turn, enable said notation indicia means, said staff indicia means and said theory conversion means to be simultaneously visible to a user while in said superimposed alignment; said indicia attachment means on said notation indicia means and said theory conversion attachment means on said theory conversion means enabling the superimposed aligned display of at least one said theory conversion means in a first layer position, with at least two or more other ones of said theory conversion means and notation indicia means in at least a second and third respective layer position, to in turn provide a three layered superimposed simultaneous display capability among said three or more layers of said notation indicia and theory conversion means respectively positioned atop one or more of said display board and said staff indicia means, and said staff indicia means and said notation indicia means being proportioned in size to accommodate and operably display said musical instruction and composition with proportioned theory conversion means including proportioned sized piano keyboard display segments, proportioned chime bells and proportioned hand signal members, in either a horizontal, vertical or oblique configuration.