US Patent 10102767 Musical notation keyboard

The invention relates to the digital music writing being a digital musical notation symbols input tool. The invention is a keyboard specially dedicated for digital input of musical notation symbols. The keyboard is used for digital input of sheet music. The keyboard can be implemented as a physical device and shaped as combination of images in a touch screen. Every musical notation symbol shall be inputted with the keyboard control element specially dedicated for input of such symbol. Novelty of the invention is that the keyboard is a device specially dedicated for input of musical notation which does not require any accessories; all the musical notation symbols can be inputted using this keyboard only with the combination of two actions: indication of the symbol's location and the symbol itself; all the symbols shall be inputted as such, not by indication of their values; all the symbols which consist of elements, which have the values of their own shall be inputted by elements; the note heads, located vertically in different positions on the musical staff shall be considered as independent signs.