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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7432436 | Apparatus and computer program for playing arpeggio An arpeggio playing apparatus comprises a musical tone signal generating device including a plurality of arpeggio playing parts, or an automatic music playing device and at least one arpeggio playing part. The arpeggio playing part is capable of playing an automatic... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432437 | Apparatus and computer program for playing arpeggio with regular pattern and accentuated pattern An arpeggio playing apparatus comprises an arpeggio pattern storing device, an arpeggio pattern readout device and an arpeggio tone processing device. The arpeggio pattern storing device stores at least one arpeggio pattern pair including a regular version pattern a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 6177626 | Apparatus for selecting music belonging to multi-genres A music apparatus is constructed for selecting style data of a music piece by designating a style name of the music piece among a plurality of music pieces, which are sorted by genres. In the music apparatus, a style selection table is provided for record... | 01/23/2001 |
| 5942710 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus and method with chord variety progression patterns, and machine readable medium containing program therefore An automatic accompaniment apparatus stores a plurality of chord variety progression patterns corresponding to the respective types of chords. Each chord variety progression pattern is constituted by a subprogression of plural chords provided for the corr... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5920025 | Automatic accompanying device and method capable of easily modifying accompaniment style Separately from an accompaniment style data memory having stored therein one or more accompaniment style data each including performance data for an automatic accompaniment, a modifying data memory is provided which has stored therein one or more modifyin... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5895878 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus with concurrent change of music style and acoustic effect In a music apparatus, an operator panel designates a first style of automatic play. A tone generator sequentially generates musical tones to produce the automatic play in the designated first style. A DSP applies a first effect to the musical tones in mat... | 04/20/1999 |
