Electronic musical instrument having tuning device
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorKenichi Miyazawa
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Abstract
An electronic musical instrument includes a tuning device, a keyboard, a tone generator, a microphone, a measurement unit, and a display attached to the backside of the housing. The tone generator generates a plurality of reference tones in response to the operation of the keyboard, while the microphone receives a plurality of musical tones, which are generated by at least one musical instrument subjected to tuning. Different tone colors can be applied to the reference tones. The measurement unit measures a plurality of pitch differences between the reference tones and the musical tones subjected to tuning, so that the display displays the pitch differences in comparison with each other.
Claims8
An electronic musical instrument having a tuning device, comprising:
- a keyboard having a plurality of keys for designating a plurality of reference tones;
- a tone generator for generating the plurality of reference tones, which are designated by operating the keyboard;
- a microphone for acoustically collecting a plurality of musical tones that are simultaneously generated by other instruments;
- a measurement unit for measuring pitch differences between each one of the-plurality of musical tones and corresponding ones of the plurality of reference tones;
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- a display, which is arranged in a backside of a housing so as to display the pitch differences concerning each musical tone measured by the measurement unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.