Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1993-09-27
1995-08-01
Miska, Vit W.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
368273, 446298, 446357, G10H 102, G04B 2100
Patent
active
054381541
ABSTRACT:
A holiday action and musical display (10) comprising a plurality of separate display units (40, 42, 44, 46) electrically connected to a central control unit (12). Each display unit contains a figurine (147) resembling a character representation which is capable of being moved from a first position where the figurine is partially blocked from a user's view, to a second position where the figurine is visible to a user. The central control unit accesses several pluralities of stored sounds and phrases which are stored in electronic memory (305), with the sounds of each plurality having a common timbre distinct from the timbres of the other pluralities of sounds, and with each timbre being associated with a particular character representation. The accessed sounds are played on a speaker (12) and the central control unit synchronizes the movements of the figurines with the accessed sounds so that the figurines appear to be jointly singing one of a plurality of stored melodies.
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Newsome Michael R.
Segan Marc H.
Strauss Gary
M. H. Segan Limited Partnership
Miska Vit W.
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