Woodwind-styled electronic musical instrument with bite indicator

An electronic musical instrument comprising:

• an instrument body provided with a plurality of manipulating note keys arranged thereon for generating note designating information which designates musical notes to be played;
• a mouthpiece arranged at a top end of said instrument body and provided with a bite manipulator for receiving a bite condition of the player and generating bite information;
• a bite indicator for indicating a bite condition of said bite manipulator as operated by an instrument player;
• a musical tone control signal generator for generating a signal which controls production of a musical tone at least in accordance with said note designating information and said bite information;
• an indicator control condition setting device capable of setting at least a first and a second control condition, said first control condition being that said bite information is to exhibit a neutral level when said bite manipulator is manipulated to a middle extent of the bite degree and said second control condition being that said bite information is to exhibit a neutral level when said bite manipulator is manipulated to a substantially zero extent of the bite degree;
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• a bite indicator control device which controls said bite indicator to exhibit a first indication state when said bite information exhibits said neutral level or the vicinity thereof, and to exhibit a second indication state when said bite information exhibits neither said neutral level nor the vicinity thereof.

An electronic musical instrument comprising:

• an instrument body provided with a plurality of manipulating note keys arranged thereon for generating note designating information which designates musical notes to be played;
• a mouthpiece arranged at a top end of said instrument body and provided with a bite manipulator for receiving a bite condition of the player and generating bite information;
• a bite indicator for indicating a bite condition of said bite manipulator as operated by an instrument player;
• a musical tone control signal generator for generating a signal which controls production of a musical tone at least in accordance with said note designating information and said bite information;
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• a bite indicator control device which controls said bite indicator to exhibit a first indication state when said bite manipulator is manipulated to or in the vicinity of a neutral level which is a substantially zero extent of the bite degree of said bite manipulator, and to exhibit a second indication state when said bite manipulator is manipulated to a level which is neither said neutral level nor the vicinity thereof;
• wherein said musical tone control signal controls production of a musical tone in accordance with said bite information at a selectable control rate .