Hybrid electronic and acoustic musical instrument

Details Hybrid electronic and acoustic musical instrument Hybrid electronic and acoustic musical instrument

1996-12-30

1998-04-07

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84330, 84171, 84385R, D17 10, G10H 700

Patent

active

057366624

ABSTRACT:
A hybrid electronic and acoustic musical instrument whose main section has an animal-like form, such as that of a cat or dog. Extending from the rear of the main section is a hollow tail section terminating in a mouthpiece and provided with a series of finger holes whereby the tail section functions as a recorder instrument. A series of push-button switches mounted on the animal-like body of the main section is connected to a Read-Only-Memory (ROM) housed in this body. Digitally stored in the ROM is a series of different recorded sounds similar to those which the animal represented by the main section is capable of producing, such as barks or meows but in quasi-musical form. When a particular push-button switch is depressed, the related digitally-stored sounds are read out of the ROM and converted to an analog signal which is amplified and reproduced. Thus by blowing into the mouthpiece and selectively fingering the finger holes on the tail sections and the push-buttons on the main section, a player can combine the recorder tones from the tail section with the sounds produced by the main section to create musical effects.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3438298 (1969-04-01), Thompson
patent: 4342244 (1982-08-01), Perkins
patent: 4527456 (1985-07-01), Perkins et al.
patent: 5145447 (1992-09-01), Goldfarb
patent: 5248843 (1993-09-01), Billings

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