Abstract: A keyboard musical instrument has an acoustic piano for generating acoustic sound in an acoustic sound mode, an electronic sound generating system for generating electronic sounds on the basis of detecting signals of hammer sensors in an electronic sound mode and a stopper operative to prevent strings from hammers in the electronic sound mode, and a change-over mechanism changes the hammer sensors between a closed position and a spaced position so that the electronic sound generating system exactly determines the intensities of the electronic sounds.

Abstract: A keyboard musical instrument lowers a key bed together with a keyboard, key action mechanisms and hammer mechanisms in a silent mode, and a stopper mechanism and a make-up mechanism cause the depressed keys to actuate the key action mechanisms and damper mechanisms as similar to an acoustic sound mode, thereby allowing a player to feel the key touch usual in a performance without an acoustic sound.

Abstract: In order to give piano-like key touch to a player in an electronically sound producing mode, a keyboard incorporated in a musical instrument is linked with key action mechanisms associated with hammer mechanisms, and a stopper blocks the hammer shanks before the hammers strike the strings so that noises are not mixed with synthesized tones.

Abstract: On a keyboard musical instrument provided with action assemblies each including a catcher and silent assemblies each including a stopper, the real silent distance between each catcher and an associated stopper is measured to calculate its difference from the optimal silent distance, and one or more attachments are added to or one or more components are removed from either of the two elements depending on the polarity of the difference in silent distance in order to minimize the let off distance of each hammer relative to an associated string.

Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator unit is provided over a keyboard of a piano, and each of the electromagnetic actuators of the electromagnetic actuator unit has a solenoid coil wound on a bobbin and a plunger for pushing down one of the keys, wherein the gravity exerted on the plunger is smaller than a recovery force of the key or a return spring coupled to the plunger is provided outside of the bobbin for smoothly moving the plunger without influences of the magnetic field produced by the solenoid coil.

Abstract: In order to allow a player to perform a music without an acoustic sound, a stopper blocks hammer shanks before impacts of hammer heads to strings, and recesses substantially conformal to the hammer shanks are formed in cushion members of the stopper for improving durability of the cushion members.

Abstract: An acoustic piano, an electronic sound producing system and a controlling system form a keyboard instrument for selectively producing acoustic sounds and electronically synthesized sounds, and the controlling system has a catcher stopper for restricting rotations of catchers before hammer heads strike sets of strings in the electronic sound producing mode, thereby giving the unique piano key-touch to a player without mixing noise with the synthesized sounds.

Abstract: A controller module associated with a mechanical piano memorizes a plurality sets of parameters produced from detected trajectories of depressed keys in a floppy disk in a recording mode of operation, and restores the trajectories on the basis of the sets of parameters for driving an actuator array associated with a keyboard in a playback mode, thereby exactly reproducing a music without sacrifice of the memory capacity.

Abstract: The thermosetting resin composition of the present invention comprises: a polymer (A) containing at least one monomer selected from ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic anhydride, mono-ester thereof and mono-amide thereof as a repeating unit; and a polymer (B) containing an addition-polymerizable oxazoline and a hydroxyl group-containing monomer as repeating units, which can rapidly form a cured film excellent in acid rain resistance and other properties at relatively low temperature of 70.degree. to 140.degree. C. The further incorporation of a basic compound (C) and/or a compound (D) selected from the group consisting of a monohydric alcohol, a .beta.-diketone and an ortho-carboxylic ester to this thermosciting resin composition can give a remarkably improved storage stability to this resin composition as a one-part type composition. This thermosciting resin composition can exhibit excellent properties as a top clear coating for motor vehicle.

Abstract: A keyboard instrument selectively enters into an acoustic sound mode for producing piano tones and into an electronic sound mode for producing synthetic tones, and comprises an acoustic piano, an electronic sound generating system and a mode controlling system, wherein the mode controlling system has a stopper slidable along strings of the acoustic piano so that the strings are struck by or blocked from hammers of the acoustic depending upon the position of the stopper.

Abstract: An acoustic piano is equipped with an electronic sound generating system, and a key bed structure is angularly movable between an acoustic sound mode and an electronic sound mode for changing gaps between hammer heads and sets of strings, thereby allowing a player to perform a music with acoustic sounds or synthesized sounds.

Abstract: Diamine compounds of formula (I) or an addition salt thereof are provided: ##STR1## These compounds have an excellent cerebral protective action, are very safe, and exhibit a strong action when orally administered, and therefore, medicines containing such compounds are effective for treating disorders caused by cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, subarachnoid hemorrhage, transient ischemic attack, cerebrovascular disorders and the like, or preventing progress of such disorders.

Abstract: A hammer stopper is moved into and outof an orbit of an extension of a hammer shank depending upon an operation mode, and the extension rebounds on the hammer stopper in an electronic sound producing mode between an escape of a jack from a butt and a strike of a hammer head at a set of strings so that a player performs a music through synthesized sounds without sacrifice of the piano key-touch.

Abstract: In order to give piano-like key touch to a player in an electronically sound producing mode, a keyboard incorporated in a musical instrument is linked with key action mechanisms associated with hammer mechanisms, and a stopper blocks the hammer shanks before the hammers strike the strings so that noises are not mixed with synthesized tones.

Abstract: A process is provided for preparation of a glycidyl ether represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein A represents an aryl group optionally having a substituent or a heteroaryl group optionally having a substituent, and the carbon atom marked with * is an asymmetric carbon,which comprises reacting an aryl alcohol represented by the general formulaA--OH (I)wherein A is as defined above,with an epihalohydrin in the presence of a quaternary ammonium salt; and, if necessary, further treating the reaction product with a base. According to the present process, it is possible to prepare by simple procedures and in a high optical purity glycidyl ethers of the above formula (II) useful as an intermediate for preparation of medicines, particularly medicines having .beta.-adrenoreceptor blocking action or the like.

Abstract: A 2-oxazoline group-containing water-soluble polymer in which the residual amount of an oxazoline monomer has been reduced is produced. An acrylic ester is copolymerized during the polymerization reaction of an addition-polymerizable oxazoline.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material excelled in surface gloss and printing concentration is disclosed.The disclosed heat-sensitive recording material with a heat-sensitive color-developing layer formed on a supporting member features provision on the surface of the heat-sensitive color-developing layer of a protective coating containing crosslinked microfine particles (B) having substantially no glass transition temperature, 0.5 .mu.m or less in mean particle size and 0.05 or less in the difference in refractive index from the solid content of aqueous resin despersion which are obtainable by emulsion-polymerizing vinyl-containing monomers containing 15 weight % or more of polymeric multifunctional monomers together with the aqueous resin dispersion (A).

Abstract: A wireless piano-touch electric sound producer comprises a keyboard assoicated with key action mechanisms and hammers driven for rotation upon depressing the assoicated keys, and a board accompanied with an absorber is shared between the hammer units for scaling down of the electric sound producer, wherein a memory unit stores pieces of vibratory information for reproducing sounds from vibrations on musical wires and board members of an acoustic piano so that a driver unit produces vibrations on a sound board of the electric sound producer on the basis of one of the pieces of vibratory information selected upon detecting actions of the keys to the hammers.

Abstract: A method and apparatus whereby information appearing on a CRT screen (410) is separately displayed in braille, using a braille web (100) in a loop form and made partly or wholly from a shape memory resin. The information from a CRT screen (410) is input to the web (100) by a braille printer (300) at a temperature within a range below the glass transition temperature of the resin. After the information has been read by the user, the displayed web portion is heated above the glass transition temperature by a heating roller (200) so that the web recovers its original, non-braille shape. The web is conveyed by a driving roller (210) along with the heating roller (200) and a driven roller (220) in the directions indicated by arrows in FIG. 1 for repeated use.

Abstract: An automatic performance device for a keyboard instrument such as piano, organ, cembalo and celesta includes operators such as keys and a pedal provided in a keyboard instrument for producing sounds, a target performance state designation unit for producing target performance information of the keyboard instrument, a real performance state detection circuit for detecting an operation state of the operators and producing a detection output, an actuator such as a solenoid for actuating the operators, and a control circuit for controlling the actuator. The control circuit detects in error between the detection output of the real performance state detection circuit and the target performance information, and generates an operator actuating signal by correcting the target performance information to eliminate the error and supplies the corrected operator actuating signal to the actuator.