Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-15
2008-04-15
Donels, Jeffrey W (Department: 2837)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
active
07358433
ABSTRACT:
An automatic accompaniment apparatus includes: a storage unit for storing accompaniment style data including basic accompaniment data for automatic accompaniment and replacement accompaniment data to be reproduced in place of the basic accompaniment data; and a reproducing unit for reading the stored accompaniment style data and reproducing the read accompaniment style data, the reproducing unit reproducing the read accompaniment style data by replacing a portion thereof with the replacement accompaniment data. The automatic accompaniment apparatus can generate derivative accompaniment style data from original accompaniment data with ease.
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Kondo Masao
Miyata Satoshi
Donels Jeffrey W
Rossi Kimms & McDowell LLP
Yamaha Corporation
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