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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mineo Kitamura, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Kawai Musical Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd., Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/02 ; G10H 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/02 ; G10H 7/00 ;
Abstract
A tone to which resonance characteristics have been added to is repetitively delayed so as to reverberate. The delay of the tone is determined based on the resonance characteristics, and a modified tone in which the reverberation and resonance characteristics are related to one another is generated.