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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 1980
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1978
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mitsumi Kato, Hamamatsu, JP;
Koji Niimi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha, Hamamatsu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84-101 ; 84-119 ; 328 16 ;
Abstract
In an electronic musical instrument wherein a frequency information related to the tone pitch of a depressed key is repeatedly accumulated and the progressing accumulated value is used to designate the addresses of a waveform memory device storing the waveform of a desired musical tone, the frequency information is varied with time instantaneously so as to vary the speed of addressing the waveform memory and thereby to vary the waveform read out from the waveform memory device, thus changing the color of the produced musical tone.