Acoustic tone inhibiting means for keyboard musical instrument
AssigneeNippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYohei Nagai, Yoshimasa Isozaki
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Abstract
A keyboard musical instrument includes: a keyboard; an acoustic musical tone production mechanism for generating an acoustic musical tone; a tone generator for generating an electronic musical tone; a solenoid driver for inhibiting generation of the acoustic musical tone from the acoustic musical tone production mechanism; and an operation panel for designating a musical tone to be inhibited. When a player designates a musical tone to be inhibited via the operation panel in advance and then depresses a key on the keyboard, the generation of the acoustic musical tone is inhibited by means of the solenoid driver.
Claims4
A keyboard musical instrument comprising:
- a keyboard having a plurality of keys;
- acoustic musical tone generating means for generating an acoustic musical tone by using a mechanical mechanism upon operation of a key;
- electronic musical tone generating means for generating an electronic musical tone upon operation of a key;
- tone designating means for designating a musical tone to be inhibited;
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- acoustic tone inhibiting means for automatically inhibiting generation of said acoustic musical tone from said acoustic musical tone generating means when said designated musical tone is said acoustic musical tone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.