Electronic musical instrument
AssigneeTadao Kikumoto
InventorShozo Sugiyama
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Abstract
An instrument for producing musical sounds which includes a keyboard, means connected with the keyboard for producing a plurality of musical sounds and means shifting said keyboard in one or more of a plurality of linear and rotational directions to vary such parameters as pitch, loudness, and tone.
Claims3
An electronic musical instrument comprising a main body, a member carried by and selectively movable relative to the main body, a plurality of keys carried by said movable member, means coupled to said keys for generating musical sounds having a temperament scale relationship and means actuated by movement of said movable member for modifying the pitch of the musical sounds produced by said keys.
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