Visual Music Instrument Patents: Volume One iota

Visual Music Instrument Patents: Volume One

by Michael Betancourt

Paperback - 213 pages
Publication Date - 2004

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A collection of primary source documents for visual music instruments, often called "color organs," gleaned from the United States Patent Office. Information about these devices is often only available through the inventor's patent applications, but these applications are not currently available except through the time-consuming process of searching Patent Office databases. This volume is an informational resource for those instruments that are already known and studied (Bishop, Rimington, Wilfred, Fischinger), and includes a number of patents for other instruments that have not been examined as thoroughly (Munsell, Hallock-Greenwalt, others). Volume One also includes a few patents that are related to visual music instruments such as systems of notation for writing visual music and devices for determining "color harmony" through a relationship to musical form.

Contents
Foreword	7
Bainbridge Bishop	9
Alexander Wallace Rimington	13
James M. Loring	27
Charles F. Wilcox	33
Henry Fitch Taylor	47
Alexander Burnett Hector	57
Mary Hallock-Greenewalt	91
Maude Maple Miles	107
Arthur C. Vinageras	113
Hazel H.Adler	123
Alexander E. O. Munsell	131
Wilhelm Schmeer	137
Thomas Wilfred	141
Richard M. Craig	167
Clinton W. Hough	173
Ernest Nanfeldt	195
Cecil Stokes	203
Oskar Fischinger	209
Patent Number Chronology	213

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