Musical instrument

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1983-07-05

1985-07-09

Isen, Forester W.

Music

Instruments

84 101, 84 103, 84 124, G10H 300

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045274568

ABSTRACT:
A novel music instrument is disclosed, comprising (i) a wind music instrument of the type wherein the emitted acoustic tone is dependent upon the placement of means such as valves or a slide which determine column length and the wind pressure exerted by the musician, (ii) a music synthesizer, and (iii) an interface apparatus. The interface apparatus includes sensing means for sensing the position of the instrument valves or slides and generating a sensing signal, transducer means for sensing characteristics of the note emitted by the wind instrument and generating a transducer signal, and a controller adapted to the type of wind instrument for generating a synthesizer control signal in response to the sensing signal and the transducer signal. By playing the instrument in a normal manner, the musician is able to also control the synthesizer to generate notes related to the notes emitted by the wind instrument. Pressure sensitive transducers are provided to allow the musician to introduce a vibrato effect or to alter the pitch of the notes generated by the synthesizer.
Other features and improvements are disclosed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3938419 (1976-02-01), De Rosa
patent: 4085646 (1978-04-01), Naumann
patent: 4342244 (1982-08-01), Perkins
patent: 4385541 (1983-05-01), Muller et al.
Technical Data Sheet for Hall Effect Digital Sensors, Article entitled: "Computer Music, without the Computer, or: What to do 'til Your Processor Arrives".
Data Sheet for 567 Tone Decoder Phase Locked Loop, by Signetics Corp.

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