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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:
Apr. 04, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1993
Eiichiro Aoki, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corpoation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
An electronic musical instrument having portamento function comprises playing keys, a musical tone signal generating device, a key depression detection device, and a control device. The key depression detection device detects a displacement of a depressed key. The control device, when a new key depression occurs following a previous key depression, controls, a tone pitch of the musical tone signal generated by the musical tone generation device to change continuously from a tone pitch of the previously depressed key to a tone pitch of the new depressed key in response to displacement of the new depressed key.
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