Roland Corporation

Osaka University

University of Tsukuba

Hidemasa Togai

Fumihiko Miura

Yuji Terada

Akihiro Nagata

Yoji Inagaki

Ikuo Tanaka

Shinichi Yamagiwa

Yoshiyasu Kitagawa

Yoshinobu Kawahara

Tomoko Nakai

An electronic musical instrument includes an instrument body and a plurality of keys, each of which has an operation surface operated by a player's finger is provided on an external surface of the instrument body. Among the plurality of keys, at least two keys are disposed to be adjacent to each other, and the operation surfaces of the at least two keys are configured to be inclined to descend toward between the at least two keys when viewed from a left-right direction of the electronic musical instrument.

Electronic musical instrument and key operation detection method

An electronic wind instrument and key operation detection method are provided. The electronic wind instrument includes an instrument body and a plurality of keys which have an operation surface operated by a player's finger and are provided on an external surface of the instrument body. Among the plurality of keys, at least two keys disposed to sandwich or surround a predetermined region comprise restriction parts formed on the operation surfaces. The restriction parts restrict escape of the player's finger from between the at least two keys having the restriction parts formed thereon.

Electronic wind instrument and key operation detection method

A musicality information provision method includes acquiring first performance data from a performance of a given composition, calculating, with respect to a combination of a plurality of parameters indicating musicality, which are included in the first performance data, respective distances between the first performance data and a plurality of sets of second performance data that are acquired from performances of the given composition and that are compared with the first performance data, and outputting determination information for determining the musicality of the first performance data, the determination information including information indicating the distances.

Musicality information provision method, musicality information provision apparatus, and musicality information provision system

Electronic wind instrument

Keyboard instrument

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Shizuoka, Japan

Hidemasa Togai