Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho

Suzuki Motor Corporation

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Takuya Satoh

Kohtaro Ilimura

Sachie Ilimura

Koji Naganuma

An electronic musical instrument capable of suppressing resonance of a soundboard and reducing a peak dip of the frequency characteristic of a musical tone to enable excellent musical sound to be obtained. The soundboard has first and second ends which extend parallel to each other. The first and second ends are secured to a predetermined part of the instrument by first screws and second screws. A vibration exciter is provided on the soundboard and driven according to a musical tone signal to vibrate the soundboard to cause the soundboard to generate a musical tone. The first and second screws are arranged along the respective first and second ends in a staggered manner such that each first screw and each first screw are not opposed to each other in symmetrical relation in a direction orthogonal to the first and second ends.

Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument capable of providing spatially spread and dynamic musical tones by causing mutual resonance of first and second vibration exciters for vibrating an opposition board and a soundboard opposed to each other, respectively. A first vibration exciter provided on a surface, opposed to a soundboard, of a opposition board, and driven according to a musical tone signal, for vibrating the opposition board to generate a musical tone, and a second vibration exciter provided on a surface, opposed to the opposition board, of the soundboard and driven according to the musical tone signal for vibrating the soundboard to generate a musical tone is connected by a connecting member for causes the first and second vibration exciters to resonate with each other.

Provided is a voice assist device in an electronic musical instrument in which tone selection or a sound setting corresponding to a key is performed in advance by pressing the operation buttonwhile pressing one of the keys in the keyboard, including a changed state recognizing unitthat recognizes from a pressed key a changed state of tone selection or a sound setting determined corresponding to the key in advance, a setting item name storing unitthat stores a setting item name of the tone selection or sound setting as voice data, and a sound emitting unitthat emits a setting item name corresponding to the changed state, and the changed state recognizing unitincludes a voice assist recognizing unitthat detects a depression for a preset time or more of the operation buttonprior to a depression of the key.

Voice assist device and program in electronic musical instrument

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