Music – Instruments
Patent
1984-10-05
1987-01-06
Grimley, Arthur T.
Music
Instruments
84 119, 84DIG12, G10H 106
Patent
active
046337520
ABSTRACT:
In an operating panel device for an electronic musical instrument, in order to provide easy mode-changeover operation and to enable the user to easily catch the relationship between respective operating knobs and the functions selected by the operating knobs in respective modes, the operating panel device comprises a plurality of operating members arranged in a row on the panel; a display window provided near and along the row of these operating members; an elongated indicating member rotatably supported on the rear side of the panel and having a plurality of indicating sections on which the names of functions of the musical instrument and/or the names of tonal characteristics settable for respective operating knobs in respective set modes are inscribed on its circumference so as to selectively appear on the display window; a plurality of LEDs arranged in a row to correspond to the operating knobs respectively. The user selects one of the setting modes by rotating the indicating member, and the operating knobs perform functions then shown on the indicating section in the display window.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2517026 (1950-08-01), Quednau
patent: 3185016 (1965-05-01), Stinson
patent: 4538495 (1985-09-01), Sato
Koike Tatsuhiro
Masubuchi Takamichi
Grimley Arthur T.
Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha
Warren David
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