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8138402 Keyboard musical instrument and solenoid drive mechanism  
A keyboard musical instrument has a solenoid including a plunger and a coil into which the plunger is inserted, a drive unit for applying voltage to the solenoid, and a key which moves together...
7847168 System and method for driving actuators in a reproducing piano  
A method and system for controlling actuators in a mechanical reproducing piano or other instrument. In one implementation, a single finite state machine is provided to control all the actuators....
7692078 Key actuating apparatus and key actuation control system  
In order to realize a small and light key actuating apparatus for actuating a key which is rotatably supported with respect to a frame, a key actuating apparatus (7) is provided which includes a...
7687691 System and method for driving actuators in reproducing piano  
A method and system for controlling actuators in a mechanical reproducing piano or other instrument. In one implementation, a single finite state machine is provided to control all the actuators....
7547833 Key driving apparatus and keyboard musical instrument  
A key driving apparatus for driving a key may include, but is not limited to, a first elastically deformable unit. The first elastically deformable unit is configured to receive a first control...
7435895 Automatic playing system used for musical instruments and computer program used therein for self-teaching  
An automatic playing system is independent of acoustic pianos, and is designed to perform music tunes expressed by sets of MIDI music data codes on the acoustic pianos; since the acoustic pianos...
6525257 Arrangement pressure point generation in keyboards for piano-like keyboard instruments  
The invention relates to an arrangement, with which pressure point characteristics can be simulated, such that a key stroke typical of a cembalo, as well as the key characteristics of an organ can...
5652399 Automatic player piano and estimator for acceleration of depressed key incorporated in the automatic player piano  
An automatic player piano controls keys to be rotated by solenoid-operated actuator units in such a manner as to pass a reference point on a trajectory of the key at a reference velocity in a...
5600521 Automatic performing apparatus with power supply controller  
An automatic performing apparatus that executes recording and reproduction of a performance includes a diagnostic signal generator for sending a power supply control circuit at least one of normal...
5530198 Piano-like keyboard musical instrument for automatically playing music through feedback control with key acceleration and key velocity  
An automatic player piano is implemented by a combination of an acoustic piano and an automatic playing system, and a velocity feedback loop and an acceleration feedback loop control...
5276270 Solenoid drive system for an automatic performing apparatus  
A solenoid drive system enabling an automatic performing apparatus to control the intensity of key depression with respect to individual keys. Voltage waveform data is provided for each of the...
5210367 Automatic performance device for a keyboard instrument  
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...
4169401 Circuit for reducing solenoid hold-in power in electronic player pianos and similar keyboard operated instruments  
There is disclosed a method and apparatus for reducing the power required to activate the soft and playing mechanism of an electronic player piano and similar instruments. In accordance with the...
3405584 Apparatus for electrically actuating a musical instrument  
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