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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:
Dec. 08, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha, Shizuoka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H / ; G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84-101 ; 84453 ; 84478 ;
Abstract
A musical tone generating apparatus of an adapter type to be connected to a host electronic keyboard musical instrument via an information cable for generating musical tone signals in accordance with key information supplied from the host musical instrument. The musical tone generating apparatus comprises switches for designating a fractional key range in the keyboard and generates a musical tone signal only when a key within the designated key range is depressed. A plurality of musical tone generating apparatuses of the same construction as the aforesaid musical tone generating apparatus can be connected in a cascade fashion to a single host electronic keyboard musical instrument.