Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1990-07-19
1992-02-04
Shoop, Jr, William M.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84725, 84730, 84739, 84DIG30, G10H 306, G10H 314, G10H 102
Patent
active
050851195
ABSTRACT:
An instrument is structured as a guitar and control-box incorporating electronic circuitry to control an external electronic synthesizer and electronic sampling instruments via a conventional M.I.D.I. system. The instrument is played in the fashion of a guitar with digital signals generated in response to switches activated when a musician plays the instrument in a similar manner to playing a conventional guitar. Boards which are capable of movement with respect to the guitar body or arm together with displacement transducers and high efficiency touch-sensitive switches are used for note selection and to create pitch-bend, note-velocity and tremolo signals. The note and fret touch switches are mounted on fret boards which replace the strings of a conventional guitar. The fret boards also produce pitch bend signals.
A plurality of pluckboards initiate note-pluck and enable ergonomic multi-timbre playing.
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Donels Jeffrey W.
Shoop, Jr William M.
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