Yamaha Corporation

Motoya Kondo

Kiyoshi Kawamura

Tadaharu Kato

Taro Kawabata

Yasuhiko Ohba

Hironori Osakabe

Teruo Akimoto

Masaaki Suzuki

A keyboard instrument is configured such that a flat panel-like display unit such as a liquid crystal display for displaying character information and/or images is provided on an instrument main body and that speakers, a recording/reproducing unit for multi media such as sound and/or image recording media, a microphone and a 'karaoke' reproduction unit are connected to the display unit so as to improve the function of displaying a notation and/or lyric at the time of a performance, a performance function such as an ensemble performance or 'karaoke' performance, and a tuning function.

Keyboard instrument with touch responsive display unit

In order to allow a player to perform a music without an acoustic sound, a stopper blocks hammer shanks before impacts of hammer heads to strings, and recesses substantially conformal to the hammer shanks are formed in cushion members of the stopper for improving durability of the cushion members.

Keyboard instrument equipped with durable hammer stopper for selectively

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Motoya Kondo