Electronic musical instrument
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorNorihisa Aoki
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Abstract
An electronic musical instrument is composed of a main body portion and parts such as an upper keyboard, a lower keyboard, and so on that are selected from among parts of a high-grade and low-grade in accordance with the model thereof and placed in the main body portion, in which a ROM stores control programs necessary for control of the electronic musical instrument of the high-grade model and low-grade model so that a CPU selects any of these and executes it. The selection is performed in accordance with an ON/OFF state of a limit switch provided to correspond to one of the parts. A portion of the part is made to have a different shape depending on the grade, so that when the part is placed in the main body portion, the limit switch comes into an ON/OFF state in accordance with the grade of the part.
Claims13
An electronic musical instrument comprising a main body portion and at least one part selected from among parts of a plurality of grades in accordance with a model of said electronic musical instrument and placed in said main body portion, wherein said main body portion comprises:
- a memory for storing control programs necessary for control of said electronic musical instrument for respective models of said electronic musical instrument;
- a controller for controlling said electronic musical instrument using a control program;
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- a selector for selecting a control program to be used for control by said controller from among the control programs stored in said memory, and
- wherein said selector comprises a switch provided to correspond at least to one of said parts and coming into a state in accordance with the grade of said part when said part is placed in said main body portion.
An electronic musical instrument comprising a main body portion and at least one part selected from among parts of a plurality of grades in accordance with a model of said electronic musical instrument and placed in said main body portion, wherein said main body portion comprises:
- a memory for storing control programs necessary for control of said electronic musical instrument for respective models of said electronic musical instrument;
- and
- a controller for controlling said electronic musical instrument using a control program,
- wherein said part comprises a transmitter for transmitting information of the grade of said part to said main body portion, and
- wherein said controller comprises a selector for selecting a control program for use in control from among the control programs stored in said memory in accordance with the information transmitted by said transmitter.
An electronic musical instrument comprising a main body portion and a plurality of parts selected from among parts of a plurality of grades for each kind and placed in said main body portion, wherein said main body portion comprises:
- a memory for storing control programs for controlling said parts of each selectable grade for said each kind of part;
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- a controller for controlling said electronic musical instrument using a control program, and
- wherein said each kind of part comprises a transmitter for transmitting grade information of said part to said main body portion, and
- wherein said controller comprises a selector for selecting a control program for use in control from among the control programs stored in said memory in accordance with the information transmitted by said transmitter for said each kind of part.
An electronic musical instrument comprising a main body portion and a plurality of parts selected from among parts of a plurality of part grades for each kind and placed in said main body portion, wherein said main body portion comprises:
- a memory for storing control programs for controlling said parts of each selectable part grade for said each kind of part;
- a controller for controlling said electronic musical instrument using a control program;
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- a switch for selecting for said each kind of part a control program to be used for control by said controller from among the control programs stored in said memory.
An electronic musical instrument comprising a main body portion and a plurality of parts selected from among parts of a plurality of part grades for each kind and placed in said main body portion, wherein said main body portion comprises:
- a memory for storing control programs for controlling said parts of each selectable part grade for said each kind of part;
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- a controller for controlling said electronic musical instrument using a control program and recognizing part grades of the parts placed in said main body portion for each kind, and
- wherein said controller comprises a selector for selecting a control program for use in control from among the control programs stored in said memory in accordance with the recognized grades for said each kind of part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.