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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5744744 | Electric stringed instrument having automated accompaniment system An electric stringed instrument having an integral accompaniment system is proposed. The vibrations of the strings on the electric stringed instrument are detected as analog signals by a pickup device. A portion of the detected signal is extracted, has it... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5062097 | Automatic musical instrument playback from a digital music or video source A device for playing back a music or video source such as a digital audio tape recorder, Compact Disc, Laser Vision Disc, video tape recorder, television and FM broadcasting and analog records comprises means responsive to control information supplied fro... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4945805 | Electronic music and sound mixing device An electronic music and sound mixing device, to be combined with a doll or a toy animal. The device comprising a mix ROM and a speech ROM for storing digital data of melodies, accompaniments and animal voices, a logical control circuit for controlling the... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4651612 | Electronic musical instrument with play guide function When autoplay data stored in a memory is readout at a predetermined regular rate, the timing of a key operation executed under the guidance of a melody guide function is compared to its corresponding regular timing, and the rate of the data readout from t... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4470332 | Electronic musical instrument with counter melody function The electronic musical instrument is provided, in addition to usual tone producing circuitries associated with playing keys, with a chord designating circuit designating, according to key depression, a plurality of notes of that constitute a chord, a chan... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4391176 | Electronic musical instrument with musical composition fashion selectors A plurality of sets of such characteristics as the color, volume and effect of a musical tone are preset for different musical composition fashions. Desired preset characteristics are selected independently in the melody performance portion and the accomp... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4328731 | Electronic tone generator An electronic tone generator capable of providing improved musical and tone quality by providing a primary melody and a secondary melody such as an accompaniment or the like is provided. The electronic tone generator of the instant invention is characteri... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4300433 | Harmony generating circuit for a musical instrument A harmony generating circuit generates high harmony signals in response to coincident lower manual accompaniment signals and upper manual melody signals. Gating circuitry responsive to coincident inputs from accompaniment chords played on the lower manual... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4162644 | Automatic rhythm accompaniment apparatus in an electronic organ An automatic accompaniment apparatus in an electronic organ having a keyboard for melody provided with a plurality of key switches for accompaniment, respective ends of the key switches being connected to a voltage generating circuit and respective opposi... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4127048 | Pedal tone generator having means for automatically producing tone patterns based on tonic note A pedal tone generator for an electronic musical instrument, such as an electronic organ, having the capability of automatically producing bass rhythm patterns based on a tonic note, includes a memory for storing a plurality of rhythm patterns which has a... | 11/28/1978 |
| 3986425 | Bass signal control circuit This invention relates to a circuit for use in an electronic musical instrument such as an organ, the instrument having two separate sources of bass signals and transducing elements for converting the bass signals into a sound output. The circuit is opera... | 10/19/1976 |
