(19)
(11)EP 1 975 921 A3

(12)EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)Date of publication A3:
22.06.2011 Bulletin 2011/25

(43)Date of publication A2:
01.10.2008 Bulletin 2008/40

(21)Application number: 08004166.8

(22)Date of filing:  06.03.2008
(51)International Patent Classification (IPC): 
G10H 1/34(2006.01)
(84)Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL BA MK RS

(30)Priority: 29.03.2007 JP 2007088700

(71)Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
Hamamatsu-shi Shizuoka-ken (JP)

(72)Inventor:
  • Ohta, Tetsuo
    Shizuoka-ken (JP)

(74)Representative: Geyer, Ulrich F. 
Wagner & Geyer Patentanwälte Gewürzmühlstrasse 5
80538 München
80538 München (DE)

  


(54)Musical instrument capable of producing after-tones and automatic playing system


(57) An automatic player musical instrument (100) includes an acoustic piano (1) and an electronic system (20) for selectively producing acoustic tones and electronic tones as regular tones (RT) equivalent to the tones to be produced for the keys (1b, 1c) moved toward the end positions (E) and after-tones (AT) equivalent to the tones to be produced for the keys (1b, 1c) moved toward the rest positions (L), and a controller (11) of the electronic system makes the acoustic piano (1) and an electronic tone generating system (25) produce the after-tones (AT) alone or together with the regular tones (RT) depending upon user's instruction so that the users can perform or reproduce music tunes in various renditions such as, for example, tremolo, syncopation and vibrato.







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