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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:
Feb. 27, 1990
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasunao Abe, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H / ; G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84611 ; 8447 / ; 84DI / ;
Abstract
The present invention provides an automatic music playing apparatus for automatically playing music, the music being composed of consecutive segments. The apparatus is essentially composed of (a) a memory device for storing musical data corresponding to the segments; (b) a control unit to read the musical data of the segments in a predetermined order and start reading data of a preselected segment consecutive to the segment being read according to an instruction therefor; and (c) a musical tone generator for generating musical tone according to the musical data read by the control means.