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US 4,287,804 AGranted
Electronic musical instrument with timbre selection
AssigneeNippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasunori Hirose
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Abstract
A timbre-select type electronic musical instrument in which the application of a sound effect unsuitable for the selected timbre is automatically blocked. This instrument includes means for detecting that a certain timbre is selected and means responsive to the signal from said detecting means for preventing the unsuitable effect for the timbre from being applied to a sound.
Claims9
An electronic musical instrument capable of selecting a timbre applied to a sound produced therefrom comprising:
- (a) keyboard means;
- (b) means for selecting a desired timbre from among a plurality of timbres;
- (c) means for electronically producing the sound with the selected timbre by said selecting means in response to a keyboard means;
- (d) means for selectively imparting a plurality of effects to said sound;
- (e) means for generating a timbre signal in accordance with said selected timbre;
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- (f) means for preventing a specific effect or effects among said plurality of effects imparted to said sound in response to said timbre signal from said generating means.
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