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5442129 Method of and control system for automatically correcting a pitch of a musical instrument  
A pitch control system for the automatic pitch correction according to a harmony-dependent tuning, especially the harmonic tuning, for a musical instrument, having an input device for the input of...
5221802 Device for detecting contents of a bass and chord accompaniment  
A device for detecting data of contents of accompaniment for use in an electronic musical instrument in which the detection of data representing contents of a bass accompaniment is effected...
5166467 Foot pedal operation of an electronic synthesizer  
A chord-generating synthesizer system including an electronic keyboard instrument and a remote control unit operable by a musician's foot--while the musician is using both hands to simultaneously...
5166465 Duet-sound generating method for an electronic musical instrument  
There is disclosed a method of a dual filter duet-sound generating method, by allowing an electronic musical instrument with duet-note capability to simultaneously output a harmonious chord in an...
5088378 Method of adapting a typewriter keyboard to control the production of music  
A method of adapting a keyboard musical instrument to produce sound in response to the activation of keys included in a typewriter keyboard is disclosed. A standard typewriter keyboard is coupled...
4966052 Electronic musical instrument  
Root and type of a chord are discriminated at discriminators in accordance with the operation status on a fingerboard. The chord is designated according to a simplified fingering rule predetermined...
4887504 Automatic accompaniment apparatus realizing automatic accompaniment and manual performance selectable automatically  
For use in or with an electronic musical instrument, an automatic accompaniment apparatus has a keyboard, a chord detector detecting a chord played on the keyboard, a judging circuit judging chord...
4864907 Automatic bass chord accompaniment apparatus for an electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument having automatic bass chord accompaniment performance in which bass tones are generated in different manners depending on the state of the keyboards of the device....
4653375 Electronic instrument having a remote playing unit  
An electronic instrument comprises a main electronic keyboard instrument body and a remote playing unit. The main electronic keyboard instrument body includes a keyboard, a sound generating...
4719834 Enhanced characteristics musical instrument  
In a method for providing musical accompaniment in response to playing of a processor-controlled musical instrument, a plurality of processes corresponding to different musical components of the...
4635519 Hybrid electronic musical instrument  
A key signal is supplied through an I/O port to a chord discriminating section of one electronic musical instrument, which generates corresponding accompaniment tone data. The accompaniment tone...
4487099 Electro-acoustic transducer drive circuit for producing damped waveform envelope musical notes  
An electro-acoustic transducer drive circuit for driving a device such as a miniature piezoelectric buzzer to emit musical notes, the notes having a damped waveform envelope whose shape is...
4480521 System and method for instruction in the operation of a keyboard musical instrument  
A system and method for instruction in the operation of a keyboard musical instrument, namely, an organ or piano. The system and method teaches the proper fingering for chord triads in the root,...
4468998 Harmony machine  
A musical instrument includes a keyboard having a number of keys which produce input signals corresponding to different musical chord progressions which may be selected by a user. The instrument...
4467689 Chord recognition technique  
A method and apparatus for inhibiting the spurious recognition of new chords in an automatic chord recognition system by permitting a new chord group or chord type to be recognized only if the...
4450742 Electronic musical instruments having automatic ensemble function based on scale mode  
An electronic musical instrument comprises a keyboard for performing a melody, a chord performing means, tonality designating means for designating a tonality of a music to be performed, melody...
4429606 Electronic musical instrument providing automatic ensemble performance  
A duet interval data memory includes tables each of which corresponds to a particular chord type and prestores a plurality of duet interval data. One of the tables is selected in accordance with...
4428269 Chord teaching system and method for an electronic musical instrument  
The present invention is a chord teaching system and method which assists the organist in learning musical chords. The system functions in several different modes and the various modes are selected...
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,...
4387618 Harmony generator for electronic organ  
A harmony generator for an electronic organ, wherein the identity of played keys of the keyboard(s) is read into a storage device and then operated upon by a data processing device such as a...
4353278 Chord generating apparatus of electronic musical instrument  
A chord generating apparatus of an electronic musical instrument is provided with a selector which selects a single key among a plurality of depressed keys, a detector for detecting a chord type...
4327622 Electronic musical instrument realizing automatic performance by memorized progression  
An electronic musical instrument is of a type in which bass/chord performance can be automatically performed without depression of the keys on the keyboard. This electronic musical instrument has a...
4307644 Automatic performance device  
An electronic musical instrument is of a type in which chord constituent tones are automatically produced at timings determined by the rhythm to be played and according to random selection of...
4306481 Dynamic one finger chording system  
A dynamic one finger chording system with memory is connected in parallel relationship to the d.c. keying lines connecting a select number of keys of the manual to a standard keyer circuit of an...
4296665 Fill note generator for electronic organ  
A fill note generator for use in electronic musical instruments such as electronic organs which include a keyboard having a solo portion customarily played by the right hand and an accompaniment...
4295402 Automatic chord accompaniment for a guitar  
In an electrical tone generator apparatus is provided for automatically selecting one of a library of chord types which is closest to a chord fingered on a fretted string instrument. The closest...
4290333 Expression means of electronic musical instrument  
An expression means has been developed which can accentuate only a selected musical sound, e.g., melody, out of melody, accompaniment chord and bass sound generated in an electronic musical...
4276801 Pedal actuated musical chord system  
A musical chord system includes a pedal console comprising a plurality of foot-actuated pedal switches, a chord selection switch console comprising a plurality of chord selection switches...
4274320 One key chording system for electronic keyboard instrument  
A one key chording system for an electronic organ of the type in which single contact keyswitches for D.C. keying of tone signals are employed. The keyswitches of a first group are connected to a...
4271741 Accompaniment system for electronic musical instrument  
An accompaniment system for an electronic musical instrument is selectively actuatable for producing accompaniment effects such as arpeggio in accordance with selectable notes or chords and with...
4263828 Electronic musical instrument having envelope controlled _automatic performance  
An electronic musical instrument having an automatic performance device includes a memory storing in addition to automatic performance data, envelope control data for controlling envelopes of...
4253366 Large scale integrated circuit chip for an electronic organ  
In a modular, expandable organ system comprising a plurality of large scale integrated circuit (LSI) chips an LSI chip is provided which produces chord and bass frequency generation and...
4248119 Electronic musical instrument providing chord tones in just intonation  
An electronic musical instrument of a digital processing type comprises a first ROM storing frequency information corresponding to respective notes for producing tones with pitches of the equally...
4248118 Harmony recognition technique application  
Techniques for translating the harmony expressed by the keyboard playing of a performer into a chord type and root. Playing key pattern representations are stored in a digital memory at locations...
4226154 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical keyboard instrument has a unit separate from the main console and having switching means for performing the function of at least some of the keys and stops of the console that...
4220068 Method and apparatus for rhythmic note pattern generation in electronic organs  
A circuit for an electronic organ for producing rhythmic patterns of notes in accordance with the selection of a chord in the accompaniment manual. The organ includes an accompaniment manual and a...
4186636 Digital chord generation for electronic musical instruments  
An electrical musical instrument having a digital circuit which automatically generates selected chordally related tone signals in response to manual selection of a root note. A root encoder...
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...
4179970 Automatic arpeggio for multiplexed keyboard  
The present invention is an arpeggio system for use in a musical instrument having a multiplexed keyboard, wherein operated playing keys are represented by cyclic pulses in corresponding time slots...
4178823 Portable electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument has a keyboard including a plurality of scale keys and a plurality of chord keys. Musical sounds are generated by a programmable frequency divider network capable...
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...
4140039 Hand held synthesizer  
A sophisticated polyphonic instrument providing both additive and subtractive tone synthesis capabilities for generating a myriad of timbres, yet occupying a volume comparable to a toy accordion,...
4117759 Apparatus for forming chord signal  
An arrangement for forming a musical chord signal in which there are provided a frequency divider for root, a frequency divider for minor third, a frequency divider for major third and a frequency...
4117758 Binary word debouncer  
A special circuit arrangement intended for use with electronic organs and the like, and particularly intended for use with electronic organs having playing key operated switches and in which at...
4112802 Organ circuitry for providing fill notes and method of operating the organ  
An organ circuitry for providing fill notes and a method of operating the organ in which a circuit is provided which adds fill notes automatically in the multiplexed solo manual of an electronic...
4100831 Automatic digital circuit for generating chords in a digital organ  
An automatic chord generating circuit for a digital polyphonic tone synthesizer having one or more keyboards. Key operated switches are connected in groups corresponding to the notes in an octave....
4065993 Electronic organ with a three-finger chord and one-finger automatic chord playing mode selector  
An electronic organ provided with a selector for selecting a three-finger chord playing mode or a one-finger chord playing mode. When the three-finger chord playing mode is selected, a chord is...
4000674 One key chording system for an electronic keyboard instrument  
A one key chording system for an electronic keyboard instrument of the type in which a single contact keyboard for DC keying of tone signals is employed. A primary keying signal from the single...
3990339 Electric organ and method of operation  
An electric organ with logic circuitry incorporated therein which will automatically cause "fill notes" to sound in the solo part of a composition being played with the fill notes being...
3967520 Guitar chording device for keyboard instruments  
A keyboard input such as the lower manual of an organ includes a plurality of keys covering one or more octaves. A plurality of note sources are provided which can produce the essential notes...
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