Music – Instruments
Patent
1977-06-30
1979-02-27
Schaefer, Robert K.
Music
Instruments
84 101, 84 124, 84DIG2, G10H 100
Patent
active
041412680
ABSTRACT:
Keyboard apparatus for an electronic musical instrument in which a particular code is assigned to each of keys of the keyboard and which is provided with a multiplexer circuit for detecting the depression of the key corresponding to an input code, means for sequentially generating the codes of the keys, memory means for storing the codes, a comparator circuit for comparing the outputs from the memory means and the code generating means to provide a coincidence signal when the both outputs are coincident with each other, a cycle control circuit for controlling a key ON cycle and a key OFF cycle in distinction from each other, and gate means for selecting the output code from the code generating means and the code of the memory means with the key ON cycle and the key OFF cycle to output to the multiplexer circuit. In the key ON cycle, the multiplexer circuit detects that the key having not been depressed yet is newly depressed, and stores it in the memory means. In the key OFF cycle, the multiplexer circuit detects that the key already depressed is newly released, and erases the content of the memory means.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3986423 (1976-10-01), Rossum
patent: 4022098 (1977-05-01), Deutsch
patent: 4074233 (1978-02-01), Swain
Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
Pojunas, Jr. Leonard W.
Schaefer Robert K.
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