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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
May. 25, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masatada Wachi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Yamaha Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H / ; G04B / ; G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84609 ; 84478 ; 84746 ;
Abstract
An electronic musical instrument having a plurality of performance operation elements such as a plurality of keys on a keyboard, wherein a series of memorized performance data indicative of the performance operation elements are successively read out in accordance with lapse of a time to instruct a performance operation element to be operated by a player on a basis of the read out performance data, and wherein the readout of the performance data is repeatedly designated to return a readout position of the performance data in a predetermined section to a previously read out position of the performance data.