Abstract: In accordance with a rhythm of a main melody, a auxiliary-melody or counter-melody creating rhythm pattern is supplied which indicates timing of respective hit points of a plurality of tones in the auxiliary or counter melody. Predetermined important hit points and unimportant hit points in the supplied rhythm pattern are discriminated from each other. Any one of component notes of chords, specified by a previously-supplied chord progression, is allocated to each of the thus-discriminated important hit points, while any one of scale notes, corresponding to previously-supplied scale information, is allocated to each of the unimportant hit points. Thus, an auxiliary or counter melody is created on the basis of the notes allocated to the individual hit pints.

Abstract: A hand-operated dancing machine wherein hand-operated percussion instruments are configured in an electronic manner to be operated for entertainment and generate a variety of sounds such as a tambourine sound, bongo sound, conga sound, etc., so that the user can frequently use the upper half of his body while he plays various games.

Abstract: A music score with notes and signs in musical notation is displayed on the screen of a computer system using musical data representing events of notes and signs for a musical performance. The score is editable by moving a note from the exhibited position to another position on the screen. In case the moved note is connected with another note by a connective sign such as a slur, a slide, a bending (i.e. choking) and a hammering-on, the connective sign is also moved to the new position of the moved note. When the notes connected by the connective sign cannot be displayed on the same screen window, the connective sign is exhibited in a special fashion to indicate the associated connection. When the score is expressed in a tablature notation, appropriate modifications are employed to indicate correct manipulative operations for the instrument player.

Abstract: A musical instrument and a method for automatically playing a musical accompaniment by guiding smoother and easier chord patterns to play. The present invention indicates chord forms which realize smoothest fingering after analyzing a chord following the present chord to determine whether the present chord should employ a root position or an inverted position for the smoothest fingering. Another feature of the present invention is to indicate chord forms which are selected to realize less movement of the player's hand after analyzing the former chord to determine a chord position (root position or inverted position) of the present chord which is the closest to the former position.

Abstract: Provided is an ON-key indicator which allows the player to visually and easily confirm the ON-key timing and strength on a keyboard instrument. A controller begins to turn on the light-emitting element farthest from a key of interest of light-emitting elements provided for the key of interest at a timing (t−n) going back an arbitrary time period n from an ON-key timing t of the key of interest, sequentially turns on the subsequent light-emitting elements, and turns on the light-emitting element closest to the key of interest at the ON-key timing t.

Abstract: A musical sound signal synthesizer with a simple construction for synthesizing complex musical sound waveform signals including many harmonics in a peculiar form. A phase information generator 11 supplies phase information x with a sawtooth wave changing according to a phase of the musical sound to be generated via a calculator 12 to a sine wave table 13, from which output waveform information y is read out. The waveform information y is fed back to the calculator 12 via an absolute value transformer 14, a low pass filter 15 and a gain controller 16. The output waveform information y outputted from the sine table 13 is transformed nonlinearly, which is fed back to the phase information x, which makes a complex change. As a result thereof, the waveform, which is represented by waveform information outputted from the sine wave table 13, becomes peculiar for a musical sound signal synthesized by phase or frequency modulation technique.

Abstract: A guide system for an elevator, including a movable unit configured to move, such as,ascend and descend, along a guide rail, a beam projector configured to form an optical path of a light parallel to a moving direction of the movable unit, a position detector disposed on the optical path and configured to detect a position relationship between the optical path and the movable unit, and an actuator coupled to the movable unit and configured to change a position of the movable unit by a reaction force caused by a force operating on the guide rail on the basis of the output of the position detector.

Abstract: A sound field effect adding apparatus is provided to add such effects as reverberation to the musical tone signal of an electronic organ and the like, and to produce a sound field effect. It is possible to create a satisfactory reproduced sound field to which a sound field effect has been added by means of a low frequency component without having to provide a dedicated unit or dedicated speaker system that can reproduce low frequencies. The apparatus has an input terminal with which a musical tone that includes a low frequency is input, and a means in which a sound field added musical tone signal is generated that produces a sound field effect that is based on an input musical tone signal.

Abstract: A multi-media system, software and method for integrating music performance with visual effects. The method includes the step of storing a plurality of items each of which contains visual effect, allowing a first user to select at least one subset of the plurality of items and forming each of the at least one selected subset of the plurality of items into a file. The method also includes the steps of allowing a second user to select one of the files, allowing the second user to select one item in the selected file, and playing the selected item as the music performance is being played.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument such as an electronic piano has a musical tone generation structure that closely simulates and reproduces musical tones with nuances of musical expressions with fidelity to acoustic musical instruments such as acoustic pianos. In the casing of the electronic piano, speakers are attached to a speaker attachment plate, which is placed substantially horizontal, such that front sides of the speakers are directed upwards. The sounds radiated from the front sides of the speakers are reflected by a reflector board which is hinged to close or open at a prescribed angle of inclination with respect to a top board, so that reflected sounds are transmitted towards the audience. Enclosures are provided inside of the casing below the speaker attachment plate and contain mufflers having a relatively small thickness therein.

Abstract: Given melody notes are classified into particular notes and other notes than the particular notes in accordance with a predetermined criterion. Additional notes are decided with respect to the classified particular notes and the other notes in accordance with different criteria set for the classified particular notes and the other notes, to generate an auxiliary melody with the additional notes. For example, for each of the particular notes, an additional note is decided which has a predetermined musical interval from the particular note, so as to generate a plurality of additional notes with more emphasis on good sounding with the particular notes. For each of the other melody notes than the particular notes, an additional note is decided which has a musical interval determined on the basis of a flow of at least one of the main melody and the auxiliary melody, so as to generate additional notes with more emphasis on note-to-note connections of a generated auxiliary melody.

Abstract: An elevator system in which an elevator-car and a counter weight are suspended on a pulley system in a hoistway. The elevator system includes a receiving unit for receiving an electric power from a feeding unit provided in the hoistway, an inverter for converting the received electric power into ac power, a motor connected to an ac side of the inverter for driving the counter weight in up and down directions, a sensor for detecting a position of the receiving unit, and a control unit for controlling an inverter on the basis of the position detected by the position sensor. The counter weight carries the receiving means, the inverter, and the motor.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring and recording keyboard motion in which an array of magnets and sensors capture key movement with high accuracy. This method uses a non-contact sensing and assembly technique that requires no mechanical or electrical connections with the entire keyboard assembly, thus making installation and servicing easier, as there are no cables or other devices required to connect or remove from the keyboard. This method also uses a mathematical algorithm to adjust for sensor distance variation (from the sensor to the key), allowing for high accuracy over the entire keyboard. Finally, this method allows for sideways keyboard movement (soft pedal in grand and some vertical pianos), without affecting the sensor readings.

Abstract: A stringed instrument comprises, in combination, a body with a neck extending forwardly therefrom The neck has a tuning portion mounted opposite the body which is adapted to receive one end of a plurality of strings. The tuning portion adjusts the tension on each of the plurality of strings. The other end of the plurality of stings is attached to the body. A plurality of pickup elements is positioned on the body proximate to the neck. The plurality of pickup elements is underneath the plurality of strings. The plurality of pickup elements are also in electrical communication with a position sensitive switch which determines which of the plurality of pickup elements is actuated in response to movement of the body. A plurality of tremolo mechanisms corresponding to the plurality of strings is attached to the end of the plurality of strings attached to the body. Also, interchangeable fret boards are mountable on the neck.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for displaying musical score data in a display area. In the apparatus, a specifying device specifies a display range of original musical score data. An extracting device extracts musical score data included in the display range from the original musical score data and extracts musical information precluded from the display range but influencing the extracted musical score data from the original musical score data. A determining device determines whether a supplementary display is necessary or not in accordance with the specified display range. A setting device divides the display area into a main display area and an auxiliary display area when the supplementary display is necessary. A display device displays the extracted musical score data in the main display area and concurrently displays the extracted musical information in the auxiliary display area. The display area may be divided into a plurality of display sub areas.

Abstract: An electronic synchronizer sequentially reads out multi-track music data codes selectively assigned to an automatic player piano and an electronic sound generating system and already stored cue flags in arbitrary multi-track music data codes, and checks the fingering on the keyboard to see whether or not a pianist depresses the black/white key assigned the note marked with the cue flag, if the pianist depresses the black/white key within a predetermined time period, the electronic synchronizer supplies the multi-track music data codes concurrently to the automatic player piano and the electronic sound generating system for giving a guide to the pianist and the accompaniment: However, if not, the electronic synchronizer delays the data transfer so as to make the guide and the accompaniment synchronous with the fingering.

Abstract: A keyboard assembly for an electronic musical instrument is provided, which is capable of having touch inputs to a key from a finger of a player reflected in his power of expression with higher fidelity even when the single key is successively depressed to repeatedly generate the same tone. A plurality of mass members are each disposed to be pivotally driven in response to depression of the corresponding key. A support device pivotally supports the keys and the mass members. A plurality of musical tone instruction devices provided respectively for the keys each instruct generation and damping of a musical tone in response to depression of a corresponding key, and are each comprised of a first sensor and a second sensor for generating a key event during a stroke of the corresponding key in response to depression thereof or in response to pivotal movement of the corresponding mass member responsive to the depression of the key.

Abstract: A digital sampling instrument for multi-channel interpolatative playback of digital audio data stored in a waveform memory provides improved interpolation of musical sounds by use of a cache memory.

Abstract: Waveform corresponding to a tone performed with desired styles of rendition is produced from vector data generated on the basis of received style-of-rendition stream data. The style-of-rendition stream data describes a series of performance tones by a combination of characteristics of a plurality of styles of rendition. The vector data can be generated for each of the styles of rendition, and waveforms corresponding to any desired styles of rendition can be produced in a simplified manner with facility on the basis of the individual vector data.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument having a single-tone priority function includes touch detection value storage means for storing a touch detection value that pertains to an ON key, priority key selection means for selecting the first priority key out of ON keys when detecting a key OFF event, tone generation means for generating a tone corresponding to the first priority key selected by the priority key selection means, tone volume computation means for computing a tone volume of the tone generated by the tone generation means on the basis of a touch detection value that pertains to the priority key stored in the touch detection value storage means, and a touch detection value that pertains to the latest key event, and tone generation control means for controlling to generate the tone in the tone volume computed by the tone volume computation means, thereby allowing a legato play with a natural tone volume with respect to a play made so far.