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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2000
Yukihiro Imai, Hyogo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A melody sound generating apparatus includes a musical-scale generator which produces a plurality of musical scales based on a recorded melody pattern, each musical scale being a set of musical notes arranged in a predetermined order and at fixed separations. A melody sound data generator produces an output melody sound data containing a plurality of sets of musical notes based on the plurality of musical scales supplied by the musical-scale generator, by adding the plurality of musical scales together. A sound generating mechanism plays a melody sound based on the output melody sound data supplied by the melody sound data generator.
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