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6121532 Method and apparatus for creating a melodic repeated effect  
An initial note series is collected from a real-time source of musical input material such as a keyboard or a sequencer playing back musical data, or extracted from musical data stored in memory....
6011211 System and method for approximate shifting of musical pitches while maintaining harmonic function in a given context  
The present invention enables non-musicians to effectively compose music using a computer, and provides them with the means to manipulate musical content in an intuitive fashion without the need...
5412153 Electronic musical instrument having independent pitch control for each key  
Disclosed is a tone generating apparatus which is provided with a timbre select switch to specify a timbre and a scan circuit for generating key codes corresponding to keys. Pitch control values...
5117727 Tone pitch changing device for selecting and storing groups of pitches based on their temperament  
A tone pitch changing device comprising an operation content memory for storing the contents of an operation required for generating a sound having a pitch which belongs to one of a group of...
5083493 Electronic musical instrument having key transpose function and a method therefor  
There is provided an electronic musical instrument for transposing the key comprising a key transpose switching means, a key board having multiple keys each assigned with an identification number,...
5078040 Electronic musical instrument providing transposition during playing  
When an operation to give a transposition instruction is performed during generation of musical tone, the transposition is not performed for the musical tone being generated but the transposition...
5072644 Synthetic recording device in an automatic performance piano  
A synthetic recording device in an automatic performance piano includes a key range setting circuit for setting a range of keys in which record performance information is to be generated, a...
4724736 Keyboard musical instruments with transpositional function  
A keyboard musical instrument with a transpositional function includes a keyboard, a mode selection switch, a microcomputer, a musical tone signal generator and a sound system. The keyboard has a...
4664010 Method and device for transforming musical notes  
A method of and a device for transforming the musical notes of a piece of music into different notes to obtain a new piece of music. The notes constituting the original piece of music are stored in...
4428267 Digital semiconductor circuit for an electronic organ  
A digital semiconductor circuit for an electronic organ has a plurality of control inputs addressed via a keyboard and corresponding in number to the number of keys of the organ keyboard, and a...
4406203 Automatic performance device utilizing data having various word lengths  
An automatic musical performance device including storage circuits, read out control circuits, and conversion circuits, wherein the storage circuits store a series of musical note data. Each of the...
4401005 Electronic keyboard-operated musical instrument  
An electronic organ has a digital control circuit with a sampling circuit (3) which generates key identification signals (B) in the form of pulse series wherein the pulses denote the actuated keys...
4389914 Chord identification system for electronic musical instruments  
The present invention relates to a process and apparatus for use in musical instruments. In particular, the invention is useful for identifying a chord played on a keyboard of a musical instrument,...
4357850 Tone generator system for electronic musical instruments  
A tone generator system for electronic musical instruments includes a voltage-regulated, high-frequency oscillator. The output of the oscillator is connected with the inputs of first and second...
4332182 Apparatus for transposing passages in electronic musical instruments  
An electronic organ, piano or accordion has a transposing apparatus wherein a voltage-regulated high-frequency oscillator transmits high frequency signals to the input of a 12-tone divider circuit...
4318326 Plural manual organ having transposer  
An electronic organ, particularly of the institutional type employing classical voicing, having Swell and Great manuals as well as a full pedalboard wherein the manuals and pedalboard are...
4233874 Frequency conversion system of tone signal produced by electrically picking up mechanical vibration of musical instrument  
An octave conversion system of the fundamental frequency of an audible tone signal produced by electrically picking up mechanical vibration of a musical instrument in which the audible tone signal...
4203338 Trumpet and synthesizer apparatus capable of polyphonic operation  
There is disclosed a trumpet incorporating rotary potentiometers which are controlled by means of circular wheels coupled to the shaft of the potentiometers. By rotating the wheel, the musician can...
4198890 Keyboard system for musical instruments  
Adjacent primary digitals of a musical keyboard are actuated in the same fingering sequence for all key signatures. Each primary digital forms part of a three section group having two secondary...
4178821 Control system for an electronic music synthesizer  
A control system for an electronic music synthesizer includes a circuit responsive to the keying of a musical instrument for producing a binary coded signal. This signal is converted to an analog...
4176573 Intrakeyboard coupling and transposition control for a keyboard musical instrument  
A transposing and intramanual coupling control circuit for an electronic keyboard instrument in which the status of the keys are scanned in groups by a group counter, each group corresponding to...
4064782 Electronic music display device  
An electronic digital display device for identifying musical notes comprising a series of manually operable on-off key selector switches, a series of manually operable on-off note selector...
4058042 Key transposing electronic organ  
A transposing electronic instrument wherein the clock frequency applied to control a top octave frequency generator is derived by comparing any single output of the generator with the response of a...
4056032 Musical apparatus  
A pitch changing apparatus shifts the absolute pitch of musical output from an electronic organ. The apparatus combines two or more transposing switches in a cascade arrangement. In the preferred...
3971282 Electronic musical instrument capable of transposition  
An electronic musical instrument capable of transposition has a high frequency oscillator provided on its output side with an octave frequency divider comprising twelve counter circuits to generate...
3933072 Generator for producing tones of a musical scale in an electronic musical instrument  
Generator for producing the tones of a musical scale in electronic musical instruments, one master oscillator driving a chain of frequency dividers in a manner such that at the output of each...
3910149 Electronic musical instrument capable of transposition  
An electronic musical instrument capable of transposition and in which a high-frequency oscillator is provided on its output side with an octave frequency divider comprising 12 counter circuits to...
3890871 Apparatus for storing sequences of musical notes  
A sequencing apparatus responsive to electric signals produced by playing an electronic music synthesizer keyboard for storing melodic and rhythmic information. The sequencer develops digital codes...
3836909 DATA INPUT DEVICES  
A keyboard is disclosed having static, conductive, pads and means for sensing the change in charge on said pads produced by finger proximity, these means being respective gating circuits each...
3824325 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CAPABLE OF TRANSPOSING  
A transposing electronic musical instrument wherein a high frequency oscillator is provided on its output side with an octave frequency divider comprising twelve counter circuits to generate twelve...
3674907 KEYBOARD TRANSPOSITION OF ELECTRICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS  
The keyboard of musical instruments, such as electronic organs, is connected through frequency divider circuits to basic tone generators such that corresponding keys of adjacent octaves produce...
3379087 Electrically operated music display and cuing apparatus  
3071155 Rotary valve for fluid operated musical instruments  
3056326 Timbre-selector for a musical synthesizer  
3030848 Electric organ transposing switch  
3023659 Transposition apparatus for electrical musical instrument  
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