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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1994
Yasuhiko Okamura, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
Plural electronic musical instruments are connected to a bidirectional communication network, and a controller is provided for each of the musical instruments for performing control such that tone control information possessed by the musical instruments can be shared between the musical instruments. A data base may further be connected to the communication network so that tone control information possessed by the data base can also be utilized in each of the musical instruments. If any of the musical instruments does not possess certain tone control information, the musical instrument is allowed to utilize the tone control information by receiving the information from another electronic musical instrument, via the communication network, which possesses the information. Further, each of the musical instruments may make an inquiry to the other musical instrument about what tone control information is possessed by the other musical instrument and, in response to the reply from the other musical instrument, display those pieces of the tone control information possessed by the other musical instrument which are utilizable in the musical instrument, so that a selection can be made from among the tone control information possessed by the other musical instrument in accordance with the displayed information.