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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7358432 | Method and apparatus for teaching rhythm An apparatus for teaching rhythm includes a housing having a plurality of tempo indicator lights and a plurality of beat indicator lights corresponding to the tempo indicator lights, such that the beat indicator lights can be selectively illuminated to indicate a de... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7241946 | Method and device for music format switching A method and device for music format switching. A tone editor is first selected to compose ring tones in accordance with a first music format. It is determined whether a switch operation has been executed. If the switch operation has been executed, the ring tones ar... | 07/10/2007 |
| 6040517 | Rhythmic tone generator A rhythmic tone generator includes a casing that houses a rhythm signal generating circuit, a battery and a tone generating device, and that is positioned and held on the concha by an attaching device, so that the rhythmic tone generator is attached to th... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5587545 | Musical toy with sound producing body A musical toy in which tappers on the ends of swinging bodies can be swung up and kept upswung without using any springs; space for spring mounting is thereby made unnecessary and the toy can be made small; the manufacturing process can be simplified and ... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5206842 | Technique for producing recording of musical works whose beat simulates arcade-game sounds A technique for recording a performance of a musical work having a persistent, accented beat in which substituted for this beat are synthesized sound effects simulating those associated with arcade electronic games in a percussive format. Hence when the r... | 04/27/1993 |
| 4630519 | Device for rhythmically driving an electromechanical vibrator An electromechanical vibrator driving device comprising a rhythm signal generator to produce rhythmic pulses in a pattern corresponding to a beat pattern of a selected music rhythm, the rhythmic pulses being amplified and then applied to the vibrator so t... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4628788 | Automatic rhythm performing apparatus An automatic rhythm performing apparatus comprises a rhythm pattern generator (A); a rhythm tone generator; a rhythm control switch (B); and a control circuitry (C) connected to the rhythm pattern generator, the rhythm tone generator and the rhythm contro... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4530267 | Rhythm controller A rhythm controller for producing a selected number of clock pulses for a musical beat interval comprising an oscillator, first and second counters coupled to the oscillator and a divider coupling the first counter to the oscillator to reduce the output f... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4492142 | Timbre modulation circuit for electronic musical instruments A timbre modulation circuit for an electronic musical instrument having an automatic rhythm accompaniment system. The timbre modulation circuit is provided in a musical scale tone signal path and includes a means for generating a control pulse series sync... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4481853 | Electronic keyboard musical instrument capable of inputting rhythmic patterns An electronic keyboard musical instrument is capable of inputting rhythmic patterns by setting desired rhythmic patterns in memory circuits using the keys of keyboards. The set rhythmic patterns operate a rhythm source circuit when read out from the memor... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4433601 | Orchestral accompaniment techniques An electronic musical instrument by which a performer can provide a musical accompaniment in different musical styles. The performer selects a desired musical style and plays on a standard keyboard in order to express a desired harmony. The instrument tra... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4424732 | Electronic musical instrument with intermanual performance faculty An electronic musical instrument includes an upper, lower and pedal key boards and a solo keyboard, key switches and associated circuits for producing key codes of the depressed keys, and musical tone signal generators which generate musical tone signals ... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4412471 | Synchronization system for an electronic musical instrument having plural automatic play features An electronic musical instrument includes first and second ROM's addressable for producing respective two-bar musical patterns representing independent automatic rhythm and music style features. Both ROM's are operable in response to a common clock signal... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4411184 | Musical instrument having programmable automatic rhythm pattern variations An operator programmable rhythm variation system comprises a shift register for storing rhythm variation signals in a sequence specified by the operator. Variation select signals are generated by the operator of the musical instrument and provided to an i... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4408512 | Tone source of rhythm A rhythm tone source which is provided with a noise generator composed of a plurality of shift registers which generate random pulses in synchronism with clock pulses supplied thereto, respectively, means for selecting the clock pulses to be applied to th... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4397210 | Rhythm sound generator An electronic circuit triggered by pulses derived from the rhythm pattern generator of an electronic organ simulates the sound of a group of people clapping hands by producing in bursts at least two different sound signals of differing characteristics and... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4383461 | Chord performing apparatus for an electronic organ A chord performing apparatus for an electronic organ with a chord-former, comprises control inputs for control signals defining the chord tone, and control inputs for control signals defining the chord type and control units which can be preset in accorda... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4375177 | Automatic electronic musical instrument An automatic electronic musical instrument generates structured and pleasing musical sound patterns from a random sequence. One phase of the random sequence is supplied to a first shift register. A first plurality of outputs from the first shift register ... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4366739 | Pedalboard encoded note pattern generation system A system for use in electronic organs and electronically actuated organs wherein a pattern of notes sounding as if played on the accompaniment or solo manual are played from the pedalboard. The pedalboard is encoded such that depression of a pedal will ge... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4357854 | Automatic rhythm performance device An automatic rhythm performance device is of a type in which an intro performance which is in a rhythm pattern different from a rhythm pattern of main performance to be performed amidst music progression is automatically provided at the start of an automa... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4356751 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument comprises a musical tone production circuit responsive to a depressed key among a plurality of keys, and a control circuit for controlling tone production manner which includes a plurality of manually operated members moun... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4314493 | Automatic rhythm pattern accompaniment equipment An automatic rhythm-pattern accompaniment equipment is disclosed that can automatically stop the full-in rhythm sound superposed on or replacing the accompaniment rhythm sound in synchronization with the beat number determination signal. According to a fe... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4311077 | Electronic musical instrument chord correction techniques An electronic musical instrument by which a performer can provide a musical accompaniment in different musical harmonies by playing on a standard keyboard. The performer adjusts a tempo clock in order to determine the period of the rhythmic beat of the ac... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4311076 | Electronic musical instrument with harmony generation An electronic organ includes a plurality of buffers for receiving solo keyswitch status information, accompaniment keyswitch status without octave information, and depressed keyswitch status from an arpeggio keyboard. A scan circuit and a microprocessor g... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4309932 | Music playing apparatus Music playing apparatus for playing selected musical notes in accordance with a selected rhythm pattern. A rhythm pattern is selected having a multiplicity of intervals. The rhythm pattern is repetitively reproducible and musical notes played at any inter... | 01/12/1982 |
| 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 notes. A rhythm pattern pulse generator generates a rhythm patt... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4265157 | Synthetic production of sounds A method and apparatus for producing sounds from one or more-time overlapg sequences of one or more electrical pulse signals having a frequency corresponding to the pitch of the sound to be produced from the signals holding the pulse width or pulse pause... | 05/05/1981 |
| 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 automatic performance tones to be generated. The envelope contr... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4244258 | Rhythm system for electronic organ An automatic rhythm system for an electronic organ adapted to enable a plurality of percussive instruments and a plurality of accompaniment and "Walking Bass" instruments normally played by the pedals of the organ includes two separate rhythm pattern gene... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4241636 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument which has any desired compass of musical sounds and which produces justly intoned pitches based on any desired pitch or note and which is capable of changing at will during performance the basic pitch or the "do" (of do, r... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4232581 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus An automatic accompaniment apparatus capable of automatically producing a bass tone by developing notes constituting a chord in the form of a broken chord in a predetermined order when keys constituting such chord are depressed. When a plurality of keys a... | 11/11/1980 |
| 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 unit being adapted to be operated by a handicapped person... | 10/07/1980 |
| 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 solo manual, either or both of which may be electronically... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4220067 | Automatic musical performance instrument An automatic musical performance instrument which has a counter for counting a high-speed clock from a high-speed clock generator, a depressed key switch detector for generating a scanning pulse in synchronism with the high-speed clock to detect a depress... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4217805 | Apparatus and method for writing rhythm information in storage A reference rhythm storing read only memory having a plurality of addresses for storing in advance, in an address sequence, information concerning a reference rhythm pattern and a writable/readable rhythm storing random access memory having addresses corr... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4216692 | Keyboard type automatic accompanying system A keyboard type automatic accompanying system wherein information representative of the root note of a chord and the type thereof are detected from key depression signals assigned by depressing a plurality of desired keys of an accompanying keyboard, the ... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4208938 | Random rhythm pattern generator Random rhythm-pattern generators have been proposed that can select one of several rhythm-patterns (i.e. pulse trains with different repetition cycles) prepared beforehand, change their playing order, and if necessary change the kind of instrumental music... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4204453 | Device for automatic tonal accompaniment in electronic musical instruments A device for automatic tonal accompaniment in musical instruments equipped with a rhythm unit, the fundamental, the quint, or another tone related to a chord being held and/or the chord itself becoming available in a predetermined sequence in a selected r... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4198891 | Circuit for simulating sounds of percussive instruments An electronic circuit for simulating the sound of a skin head percussive instrument struck with a stick includes a pair of ringing oscillators of different frequencies both triggered by pulses from the rhythm pattern generator of an electronic organ, a ci... | 04/22/1980 |
| 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 automatically sounding in succession either the natural notes (w... | 01/29/1980 |
