Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1991-05-31
1994-10-04
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84630, 84662, 84DIG10, G10H 502
Patent
active
053528492
ABSTRACT:
A musical tone synthesizing apparatus is designed to simulate a physical phenomenon of a non-electronic musical instrument providing a sound generating element and an activating element. Herein, the sound generating element has its specific resonance characteristic, while the activating element imparts an excitation vibration to the sound generating element. This apparatus contains a plurality of loop circuits each including at least one delay element, wherein these loop circuits are connected together such that a signal picked up from one loop circuit is introduced into another loop circuit. This signal circulating through each loop circuit is delayed by a delay time which is controlled by a predetermined parameter corresponding to a desirable musical tone to be generated. In addition, an excitation signal, corresponding to the excitation vibration, is applied to at least one of the loop circuits. Preferably, the non-electronic musical instrument is a piano, so that the sound generating element is a string and the activating element is a hammer which strikes the string. Further, number of the loop circuits is set corresponding to the number of strings to be provided with respect to each key of the piano.
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Donels Jeffrey W.
Shoop Jr. William M.
Yamaha Corporation
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