Electronic stringed instrument having a string trigger switch

Details Electronic stringed instrument having a string trigger switch Electronic stringed instrument having a string trigger switch

1987-07-01

1990-03-27

Witkowski, Stanley J.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84727, 84DIG24, G10H 318

Patent

active

049110535

ABSTRACT:
A string member and a string trigger switch mechanism associated with the string member are arranged on an instrument main body. The string member is extended on the instrument main body at a given tension. When the string member is deviated against the tension upon a string displace operation and is then released from its state of tension, a string trigger switch starts a switching operation. While the string member is displaced from its state of rest, the string trigger switch does not start a switching operation. The string trigger switch outputs a tone generation start instruction signal based on the switching operation, and this signal causes a musical tone generating apparatus to start generation of a musical tone. When the string member is plucked while depressing a pitch designating section arranged on the instrument main body, a musical tone at a selectively designated pitch is generated. A plucking force or a plucking speed is detected by a touch response detecting section, and characteristics of a generated musical tone are controlled accordingly.

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patent: 4336734 (1982-06-01), Polson
patent: 4372187 (1983-02-01), Berg
patent: 4658690 (1987-04-01), Aitken et al.
patent: 4723468 (1988-02-01), Takabayashi et al.

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