Roland Corporation

John K McFerran

Lowell Brunson

Shoichi Kojima

Junichi Miki

Kenji Nogami

Takahiro Sugizaki

Michael Nazarov

Provided is a tone control device coupled to a musical instrument including a plurality of pipes capable of generating tones with differing pitches for keys, wherein the pipes are arranged in rows, comprising: a tone generation device that generates tone; a pipe designation device that designates a specified pipe among the pipes installed; and a control device that causes the tone generation device to generate a substituting tone corresponding to the specified pipe when a depressed key comprising one of the keys corresponds to the specified pipe designated by the pipe designation device, and the specified pipe is a pipe belonging to one of the rows of pipes designated as a tone generation subject for the depressed key.

Tone control device

An electronic musical instrument has a server section to enable instrument settings to be made by remote control from a terminal on a client side through a communications circuit such as the Internet, and thus makes it possible to easily carry out the setting and resetting of an electronic musical instrument for which specialized knowledge is required.

Electronic musical instrument having server section for remote control of settings over a communication channel

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North Plains, OR, United States of America

John K McFerran