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5741993 Electronic keyboard having a discrete pitch bender  
Provided is an electronic keyboard, which has a sequentially variable operating terminal, that comprises: a detector for detecting an operational displacement of the sequentially variable operating...
5422431 Electronic musical tone synthesizing apparatus generating tones with variable decay rates  
An electronic musical tone synthesizing apparatus includes a damper pedal and an envelope generator. The envelope generator imparts an envelope to a musical tone to be produced. When the...
5396023 Wholetone musical selection device  
Novel shapes and interrelationships of interreactive domains for wholetone musical selection devices such as keyboards or other user interface medium are described. Chromatic glissandos are allowed...
5119713 Electronic musical instrument having a portamento function utilizing whole and half transformations  
A keyboard and a portamento bar are connected to a tone generator through a common channel assigner to use each tone generating channel either for generating a keyboard sound or for generating a...
4892023 Electronic keyboard percussion instrument  
An electronic keyboard percussion instrument includes a hammer such as a mallet, a plurality of plates, striking detection devices, and a musical tone generating section. The plates respectively...
4700605 Electronic keyboard musical instrument with portamento or glissando play function  
In an electronic keyboard musical instrument with a portamento or glissando play function, a touch response detector is arranged to detect a key touch response such as a depression speed or...
4699037 Electronic musical instrument with glide function  
An electronic musical instrument has a keyboard, a key depression speed detector and a glide pattern generator. When any key of the keyboard is depressed, the key depression speed detector detects...
RE32445 Electronic musical instrument having portamento property  
In a electronic musical instrument wherein a portamento is played by supplying the pitch voltage corresponding to a subsequently depressed key to a capacitor holding the pitch voltage corresponding...
4621557 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument which is capable of attaining the tonal coloration and "feeling" of an acoustic instrument and wherein the pitch, timbre, and loudness of each sound which is...
4463647 Musical instrument  
Clavier multiplexing is used in the present keyboard musical instrument to reduce the number of sound generators needed by connecting them only to those notes that are depressed. The association of...
4408514 Electronic musical instrument having portaments property  
In a electronic musical instrument wherein a portamento is played by supplying the pitch voltage corresponding to a subsequently depressed key to a capacitor holding the pitch voltage corresponding...
4374482 Vocal effect for musical instrument  
Apparatus for producing a chorale or vocal effect in an electronic musical instrument comprises means responsive to the playing keys of the instrument for producing an indexing signal and means...
4306480 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument having a fret board and a plurality of conductive frets may be coupled to a resistance ladder of discrete resistive elements. A conductive wire or a plurality of...
4270431 Glide circuit for electronic musical instrument  
A circuit for producing a special effect, such as a sliding tone effect or a "Hawaiian Guitar" tonal effect, utilizes a coincidence gating circuit and a bi-stable flip-flop to control a time delay...
4257305 Pressure sensitive controller for electronic musical instruments  
An electronic musical instrument incorporates one or more pressure sensitive push-button controllers actuable independent of the keys or other note selecting elements of the instrument to vary a...
4240318 Portamento and glide tone generator having multimode clock circuit  
A musical instrument tone generator comprises a clock circuit including means for developing an interval code representing the number of musical intervals to be swept by a tone signal. An output...
4213367 Monophonic touch sensitive keyboard  
A keyboard for a monophonic musical instrument has a plurality of touch sensitive keys which function as variable capacitors, the capacitance depending on the force applied to the keys. The...
4207793 Variable rate portamento system  
A portamento system is disclosed for use with an electronic musical instrument, and particularly with a monotonic keyboard instrument which utilizes master oscillator/divider elements for tone...
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...
4198892 Tone generator for electronic musical instrument with digital glissando, portamento and vibrato  
A tone generator for use with an electronic musical instrument includes a binary counter operated by a binary comparator and a source of clock signals for incrementally advancing or decreasing the...
4185530 Automatic glissando  
A circuit intended for use with electronic organs and, more specifically, with those electronic organs in which the keyboard switches are multiplexed, and which circuit provides a method for...
4179971 Pitch bend apparatus for electronic musical instrument  
A pitch bend apparatus for electronic musical instrument having a voltage-controlled oscillator that works as a tone generator is provided with a first variable resistor for operating the pitch...
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...
4176576 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument in which a keyboard circuit generates scale tone voltage signals corresponding to depressed keys of a keyboard. Plural musical tone signal forming sections are...
4152966 Automatic chromatic glissando  
A keyboard operated tone synthesizer with glissando effect in which actuating individual keys successively on a keyboard produces all the intermediate notes of the chromatic scale. The time...
4103581 Constant speed portamento  
A keyboard operated tone synthesizer with portamento effect in which each key controls the pitch of the generated tone through a table of frequency numbers, each key selecting a corresponding...
4067254 Frequency number controlled clocks  
In a musical polyphonic tone synthesizer, musical waveshapes are produced by voltage controlled oscillators. The analog frequency control voltages are created by converting stored digital numbers...
4038895 Breath pressure actuated electronic musical instrument  
A musical instrument having a general body outline similar to that of a saxaphone. A front key panel having a plurality of keys mounted thereon is located for easy fingering access to the keys...
3997863 Helically wound pitch-determining element for electronic musical instrument  
A control apparatus for determining the pitch of the sound produced by an electronic music synthesizer incorporates a conductive ribbon having a manually adjustable contact with a second conductive...
3965789 Electronic musical instrument effects control  
The keyboard type instrument includes circuitry for controlling an envelope generator and a voltage controlled oscillator which in sequence operates a voltage controlled filter, and a voltage...
3835235 KEYBOARD TYPE ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT  
A keyboard type electronic musical instrument, which is capable of producing such musical effects as tremolo and glide, is disclosed. A flexible hollow tube is provided below each key together with...
3801721 MONOPHONIC ELECTRONIC MUSIC SYSTEM WITH APPARATUS FOR SPECIAL EFFECT TONE SIMULATION  
A monophonic system includes means for voicing only tones derived in response to depression of a key associated with the highest pitched note when several keys are struck at approximately the same...
3776087 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH VARIABLE IMPEDANCE PLAYBOARD PROVIDING PORTAMENTO  
An electronic musical instrument is disclosed in which a musical scale keyboard and a portamento playboard are arranged parallel and close to each other. Associated with the portamento playboard,...
3733955 MUSIC SYNTHESIZER KEYBOARD CIRCUIT  
A keyboard circuit for an electronic music generator, such as an electronic synthesizer. The circuit makes it possible to independently control the frequencies of two voltage controlled oscillators...
3699492 VARIABLE RESISTANCE DEVICE FOR A PORTAMENTO PERFORMANCE ON AN ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT  
A variable resistance device for a portamento performance on an electronic musical instrument wherein a conductive coiled spring is held by a supporting member and an elongate resistor is so held...
3688010 TONE MODULATION SYSTEM  
Musical tone signals in electrical form are applied to a plurality of formant filters which are tuned dynamically by player operated controls and by electronically generated control signals....
3651729 CIRCUIT FOR RAPID NOTE PASSAGE IN ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT  
An electronic musical instrument-circuit for a rapid note passage (portamento or arpeggio) comprises an operational device for leading out, when manipulated, a DC signal representing a manipulated...
3598891 MUSICAL TONE-FORMING CIRCUITRY INCLUDING FILTER AND RANDOM NOISE MODULATION  
A whistle or grass reed sound is simulated by an electronic musical circuitry comprising a portamento-type oscillator, a tone coloring filter for providing a tone signal having predetermined...
3598890 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH MAGNETO-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS AND MOVABLE PERMANENT MAGNET PROVIDING GLISSANDO  
A device producing a glissando effect includes a plurality of magneto-sensitive elements arranged in a row in accordance with the respective notes of a musical scale. A permanent magnet is movable...
3590133 VARIABLE AMPLITUDE VIBRATO AND GLISSANDO CIRCUITRY FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS  
A vibrato oscillator on the order of 6 cycles per second frequency is supplied in an electronic organ. A diode shunts the output of the vibrato oscillator, and when the diode is conductive, no...
3535430 TRANSISTOR FREQUENCY GLIDE CONTROL FOR MUSICAL TWIN-T OSCILLATOR TONE GENERATORS  
3474182 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT EMPLOYING SINGLE UNIJUNCTION TRANSISTOR OSCILLATOR IN WHICH VOLUME IS CONTROLLED BY KEY DISPLACEMENT  
3440325 TRANSISTORIZED HARTLEY OSCILLATOR TONE GENERATOR CIRCUIT PRODUCING GLISSANDO AND VIBRATO EFFECTS BY VOLTAGE DETUNING  
3376776 Organ portamento system  
3288904 Tone frequency control system for electronic musical instruments  
3166622 Breath controlled electronic musical instrument  
3157725 System for processing musical spectra  
3095466 Keyboard for a monophonic instrument with improved sound-sustaining means  
3078752 Circuit for simulating vibrato effect by amplitude modulation of tone by sawtooth waveform  
2855816 Music synthesizer  
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