Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1994-03-21
1995-07-18
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84 2, 84 3, 84171, 84236, G10C 500, G10D 1500, G10H 134
Patent
active
054343496
ABSTRACT:
A keyboard instrument selectively enters into an acoustic sound mode for producing piano tones and into an electronic sound mode for producing synthetic tones, and comprises an acoustic piano, an electronic sound generating system and a mode controlling system, wherein the mode controlling system has a stopper slidable along strings of the acoustic piano so that the strings are struck by or blocked from hammers of the acoustic depending upon the position of the stopper.
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Witkowski Stanley J.
Yamaha Corporation
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