Musical drawing assembly

A musical drawing assembly comprising:

• a drawing board on which a person can draw;
• a storage device storing at least a first musical melody and a second musical melody, said first musical melody having a different succession of musical tones than said second musical melody;
• and
• means for detecting a type of drawing movement on said drawing board and for generating music in response to said detected type of drawing movement, said type of drawing movement being at least one of a speed of drawing movement and an acceleration of drawing movement, said music including one of said first musical melody and said second musical melody dependent upon said detected type of drawing movement.

A musical drawing assembly comprising:

• a drawing board on which a person can draw;
• a sensor adapted to sense drawing movement on said drawing board;
• a storage device storing a plurality of accompaniment melodies each having a different succession of musical tones, said storage device storing a plurality of instrumental melodies corresponding to different musical instruments and each having a different succession of musical tones;
• means for selecting one of said accompaniment melodies;
• means for selecting a musical instrument that corresponds to one of said different musical instruments;
• an output device for outputting music;
• and
• a controller configured to output said selected one of said accompaniment melodies to said output device during said drawing movement and to output one of said instrumental melodies that corresponds to said selected instrument to said output device in response to said drawing movement.

A method of generating music comprising:

• sensing drawing movement on a drawing board;
• determining a type of drawing movement on the drawing board based on the sensed drawing movement, the type of drawing movement being at least one of a speed of drawing movement and an acceleration of drawing movement;
• selecting a musical melody from a plurality of stored musical melodies based on the determined type of drawing movement, said musical melodies each having a different succession of musical tones;
• and
• outputting said selected one of said musical melodies to an output device.

A method of generating music comprising:

• receiving a selection of an accompaniment melody;
• receiving a selection of a musical instrument;
• sensing drawing movement on a drawing board;
• determining a type of drawing movement on the drawing board, the type of drawing movement being at least one of a speed of drawing movement and an acceleration of drawing movement;
• determining which of a plurality of stored instrument melodies corresponds to the selected musical instrument;
• outputting to an output device in response to the sensed drawing movement at least one of the instrument melodies determined to correspond to the selected musical instrument;
• and
• outputting the selected accompaniment melody to the output device.