Electronic musical instrument

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1989-01-17

1989-09-05

Witkowski, Stanley J.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84634, G10H 106, G10H 118, G10H 500

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048627844

ABSTRACT:
An electronic musical instrument providing a key area dividing unit and a tone area changing unit divides the whole key area of a keyboard into melody key area and accompaniment key area when a diving mode is designated by a player. A tone area of tone pitch information which is generated from each key area can be arbitrarily determined or changed by a manual operation of player. In addition, several kinds of tone colors are respectively assigned to plural tone color switches so that the player can select any one of the tone colors by operating one of plural tone color switches. Based on the selected tone color and tone pitch information, a musical tone signal can be generated in each key area of keyboard.

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patent: 4476766 (1984-10-01), Ishii
patent: 4773294 (1988-09-01), Iizuka et al.
patent: 4788896 (1988-12-01), Uchiyama et al.

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