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US 2019/0051271 A1Published application
Musical instrument
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorHideaki TAKEHISA
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Abstract
A musical instrument includes: a vibrating member configured to be vibrated by a playing operation; an adjusting mechanism configured to perform physical adjustment to change a vibration manner of the vibrating member in playing; a detector configured to detect an adjustment state of the adjusting mechanism; a musical-sound generator configured to generate musical sound based on the playing operation; and a controller configured to control a manner of generation of the musical sound by the musical-sound generator, based on the adjustment state detected by the detector.
Claims10
A musical instrument, comprising:
- a vibrating member configured to be vibrated by a playing operation;
- an adjusting mechanism configured to perform physical adjustment to change a vibration manner of the vibrating member in playing;
- a detector configured to detect an adjustment state of the adjusting mechanism;
- a musical-sound generator configured to generate musical sound based on the playing operation;
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- a controller configured to control a manner of generation of the musical sound by the musical-sound generator, based on the adjustment state detected by the detector.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.