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US 2003/0150316 A1Published application
Compact musical instrument equipped with automatic player
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorShigeru Muramatsu
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Abstract
A music box includes a daisy reed wheel having reeds radially projecting from a hub for generating tones and solenoid-operated player's fingers arranged around the daisy reed wheel; the tips of the reeds are widely spaced from one another by virtue of the radial arrangement so that large-sized solenoid-operated actuators are used for the player's fingers; this results in the compact music box.
Claims34
A musical instrument comprising:
- a tone generator having vibratory members radially arranged with respect to a center of said tone generator;
- and
- an automatic player selectively generating vibrations of said vibratory members for producing tones different in pitch from one another through said vibrations, and including player's fingers arranged in the proximity of outer ends of said vibratory members and a controller connected to said player's fingers for selectively actuating said player's fingers on the basis of pieces of music data variable without changing a physical structure of said controller.
A musical instrument comprising:
- a tone generator having an array of vibratory members for generating tones different in pitch from one another through vibrations;
- and
- an automatic player including player's fingers for selectively generating said vibrations in said vibratory members and a controller connected to said player's fingers for selectively actuating said player's fingers on the basis of pieces of music data variable without changing a physical structure of said controller,
- each of said player's fingers having a rotary vibration generator rotatably supported by a stationary member in the proximity of associated one of said vibratory members for generating said vibrations through rotation thereof and an actuator connected to said controller and selectively energized by said controller for rotating said rotary vibration generator.
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A musical instrument comprising:
- a tone generator having an array of vibratory members for generating tones different in pitch from one another through vibrations;
- and
- an automatic player including player's fingers for selectively generating said vibrations in said vibratory members and a controller connected to said player's fingers for selectively actuating said player's fingers on the basis of pieces of music data variable without changing a physical structure of said controller,
- each of said player's fingers including
- a vibration generator moved from a rest position along a first path for generating said vibrations in associated one of said vibratory members and a second path for returning to said rest position,
- an actuator connected to said controller and moving said vibration generator along said first path and said second path, and
- a route changer connected to said vibration generator for guiding said vibration generator to said second path after generating said vibrations so as to permit the associated vibratory member to freely vibrate without any interference due to said vibration generator passing beside said associated vibratory member along said second path.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.