Electronic keyboard percussion instrument
AssigneeNippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkihiko Takeuchi, Masaaki Mizuguchi
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Abstract
An electronic keyboard percussion instrument includes a hammer such as a mallet, a plurality of plates, striking detection devices, and a musical tone generating section. The plates respectively correspond to note names of musical tones to be produced and aligned parallel to each other. The striking detection devices are respectively mounted on lower surfaces of the plates to detect striking of the plate with the mallet and to generate a striking detection signal. The musical tone generating section generates a musical tone of the note name corresponding to the struck plate in response to the striking detection signal. The striking detecting section may include a pressure sensitive element in order to make the musical tone responsive to a force striking the plate.
Claims16
An electronic keyboard percussion instrument of a type to be struck with a striking member by a player comprising:
- a plurality of pressure sensitive plates respectively corresponding to note names of musical tones to be produced and aligned parallel to each other;
- a plurality of striking detecting means, each of which detects when a corresponding pressure sensitive plate is struck with said striking member by the player and generates a first striking detection signal representing a note name of the struck pressure sensitive plate and further generates a second striking detection signal representing a musical tone element modifier characteristic of a manner in which the player has struck the struck pressure sensitive plate;
- a tone assignor for assigning said first and second striking detection signals to one of a plurality of tone channels;
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- musical tone generating means coupled to said plurality of tone channels for generating a musical tone corresponding to said note name and said musical tone element modifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.