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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1981
Eisaku Okamoto, Hamamatsu, JP;
Kohtaro Mizuno, Hamamatsu, JP;
Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
An electronic musical instrument having a reading device for reading music-playing data recorded on a part of a music sheet, comprises a musical instrument body having a first groove to support the music sheet during the play of a music and a second groove to initially receive the music sheet and to transfer the sheet into the first groove, with the first and second grooves being continuous to each other. The reading device reads the music-playing data from the sheet as the sheet is transferred through the second groove into the first groove, and supplies the data thus read to an internal memory device. Music is automatically played by successively reading out the music-playing data from the memory device.