Foot actuated electronic organ

Details Foot actuated electronic organ Foot actuated electronic organ

1974-12-11

1976-06-15

Hix, L. T.

Music

Instruments

84 117, 84426, 84444, 84DIG12, 84DIG22, 84DIG23, 84DIG25, G10H 100, G10H 500

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039629457

ABSTRACT:
A musical instrument including an electronic organ provided with sound generators of an upper manual, a lower manual, a bass and a rhythm section. The sound generators are connected electrically to control switches in a console, these control switches being actuated by spaced horizontal, arcuately disposed, rows of main, switch actuating, pedals selectively operable by a person's left foot. The main pedals are disposed also in vertical rows corresponding to a basic note of a chord while the horizontal rows correspond to the key of each basic chord. A diode logic, in cooperation with the sound generators and control switches, dictates a prescribed chord of the lower manual sound generator to be sounded when a main pedal is depressed. An auxiliary switch which is actuated by a rhythm pedal operated by the right foot of a person, is adapted, when the additional chords are programmed by depression of a control pedal, to energize the sound generators of the upper manual for producing such additional compatible chords. The main pedals also actuate circuits to the sound generators of the bass and a switch, actuated by sidewise movement of the rhythm pedal, actuates the rhythm section.

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