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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tadayuki Ishida, Hamamatsu, JP;
Hiroshi Kato, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho, Hamamatsu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10N 1/18 ; G10N 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10N 1/18 ; G10N 7/00 ;
Abstract
An electronic musical instrument has a tone generation instruction operation member for instructing to start tone generation, and a tone generation control unit for starting a tone generation process upon operation of the tone generation instruction operation member, continuing the tone generation process even after the tone generation instruction operation member is released, and executing a mute process when the identical tone generation instruction operation member is operated again.