Electronic musical instrument including an apparatus for aurally and visually displaying specification explanations and states of the electronic musical instrument

An explanation apparatus for an electronic musical instrument, comprising:

• tone generation means including a channel capable of generating a tone and a voice;
• tone color designation means for designating a tone color of the tone;
• tone color data storage means for storing tone color data associated with the tone color;
• key information designation means for designating key information to be subjected to tone generation;
• tone control means for assigning the designated key information to said channel and causing said tone generation means to generate the tone on the basis of the tone color data of the designated tone color;
• operation means for enabling a specification/state explanation function;
• voice code storage means for storing voice code information associated with the specification/state explanation;
• voice data storage means for storing voice data corresponding to the voice code information;
• and
• voice control means for reading the voice data on the basis of the voice code information read from said voice code storage means in response to an operation of said operation means, assigning the read voice data to the channel, and causing said tone generation means to generate the voice.

An explanation apparatus of an electronic musical instrument, comprising:

• display means capable of displaying a plurality of different types of information;
• voice generation means for generating a voice;
• code storage means for storing character code information and voice code information associated with explanations of specifications and states of said electronic musical instrument;
• voice data storage means for storing voice data corresponding to the voice code information;
• and
• control means for selecting a set of character code information and voice code information from said code storage means in response to an operation of an operation switch, causing said display means to display characters corresponding to the selected character code information, reading voice data corresponding to the selected voice code information, and causing siad voice generation means to generate a corresponding voice.

An explanation apparatus for an electronic musical instrument, comprising:

• display means capable of displaying a plurality of different types of information;
• voice generation means for generating a voice;
• code storage means for storing character code information and voice code information associated with explanations of specifications and states of said electronic musical instrument;
• voice data storage means for storing voice data corresponding to the voice code information;
• input means for inputting operation information of an operation switch by a voice;
• and
• control means for selecting a set of character code information and voice code information from said code storage means in response to the input operation information, causing said display means to display characters corresponding to the selected character code information, reading voice data corresponding to the selected voice code information, and causing said voice generation means to generate a corresponding voice.