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US 5,189,242 AGranted
Electronic musical instrument
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorSatoshi Usa
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Abstract
A vibrator for vibrating an electronic musical instrument in accordance to the generated tone being produced. In this manner, a player of the electrical musical instrument will have the sensation of playing a conventional musical instrument due to the feedback of vibrational energy into the input device of the electronic musical instrument.
Claims10
An electronic musical instrument, comprising:
- input means, adapted for contact by the performer, for providing tone data relating to musical tone signals to be generated in response to actions of the performer, said tone data comprising first data representing generation start and second data representing tone pitch;
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- vibrator means for vibrating the input means separate from any generation of sounds in response to the tone data thereby to impart vibrations to the input means.
An electronic musical instrument comprising:
- input means, adapted for contact by the performer, for providing tone data relating to musical tone signals to be generated in response to actions of the performer, said tone data comprising first data representing generation start and second data representing tone pitch;
- and
- vibrator means for vibrating the input means in response to the tone data thereby to impart vibrations to the input means, wherein the electronic musical instrument comprises a wind controller.
An electronic musical instrument, comprising:
- a keyboard, adapted to be contacted by a performer, for providing tone data relating to musical tone signals to be generated in response to actions of the performer, said tone data comprising first data representing generation start and second data representing tone pitch;
- and
- vibrator means for vibrating the input means separate from any generation of sounds in response to the tone data thereby to impart vibrations to the keyboard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.