Patent Application
20220319476
This invention relates to music writing and notation in general and composing, arranging or music studying in particular.
Prior tools designed to draw a music staff include
These inventions solved the problem only partially, as in the case of QuikStaff and Noligraph, where:
and in the case of Lineslider, where:
Accordingly, here are several objects and advantages of my invention:
Durability: produced with materials such as stainless steel, hard wood, or very hard plastic and designed as one piece with no frail mechanisms or easily perishable parts, this invention is made to last for a lifetime and beyond.
Cost/Technical Advance: produced with a relatively new and competitive technique (called etching) to cut metals (in the case of the main, stainless steel embodiment), this article can be marketed at significantly lower prices than the prior equivalents.
Reliability: this music staff ruler is so essential and stable in its conception that, with a pen or pencil at hand, it cannot fail to provide the composer or music student with the ability to draw a music staff and write down a music idea at any time.
Flexibility: without any short-lived writing devices, such as boligraphs, the user is able to choose everytime the kind of pen, ink color, or pencil she or he might prefer at the moment.
Size: this invention comes in different sizes: a shorter version, to prioritize transportability, and a longer version, to prioritize the drawing of full-length music staves.
Appearance: the simplicity of this music ruler's design and the quality of the materials employed in its construction result in a timeless aesthetic that is meant to appeal to the artistic spirit of its users.
Further objects and advantages of my invention will become apparent from a consideration of the drawings and ensuing description.
As illustrated in
The manner of using the present invention is very similar to the way a common stationary ruler is used to draw a straight line. Namely, one first holds down the plate by pressing the left-hand fingers (in the case that the user is right-handed) on the plate's lower area. Next, one inserts the tip of a pen or pencil into one of the grooves and, guided by said groove, traces a line from start to end (or from any desired point to another). Then one proceeds to draw the rest of the lines in a similar way, one by one, using the rest of the grooves as guides, thus obtaining a group of parallel lines.
The reader can see how easy and practical it is to draw a music staff with the aid of this ruler. The reader surely can also appreciate how this invention is stripped of all elements that can significantly limit its durability and restrict the possibilities of its use.
In other embodiments the number of lines constituting the music staff may vary according to the type of staff one may need to draw (for example, guitar tablature diagrams are made of 6 lines). The shape of the plate could be other than a rectangle. The color may be any one chosen by the designer or customer.
Dimensions, especially length, may vary to produce a shorter, more portable, ‘pocket’ version of the invention, or, conversely, a longer, ‘desk’ version of it to draw full-size staves.
Materials may be stainless steel (preferred embodiment), but also other metals or hard wood, or any very hard plastic or other synthetic material.
In the case of a hard wood embodiment, the manufacturing process may differ as it might be necessary to produce different parts separately.
