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US 6,548,748 B2Granted
Electronic musical instrument with mute control
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
InventorsTadayuki Ishida, Hiroshi Kato
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Abstract
An electronic musical instrument has a tone generation instruction operation member for instructing to start tone generation, and a tone generation control unit for starting a tone generation process upon operation of the tone generation instruction operation member, continuing the tone generation process even after the tone generation instruction operation member is released, and executing a mute process when the identical tone generation instruction operation member is operated again.
Claims7
An electronic musical instrument comprising:
- a tone generation instruction operation member for instructing to start tone generation;
- a tone generation mode storage unit for storing tone generation modes;
- and a tone generation control unit for, when the tone generation mode is a first mode, starting a tone generation process upon operation of the tone generation instruction operation member and executing a mute process upon release of the tone generation instruction operation member, and for, when the tone generation mode is a second mode, starting a tone generation process upon operation of the tone generation instruction operation member, continuing the tone generation process even after the tone generation instruction operation member is released, and executing a mute process when the identical tone generation instruction operation member is operated again.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.