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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2005
Musical instrument performing artistic visual expression and controlling system incorporated therein
Applicants:
Shigeru Muramatsu, Shizuoka, JP;
Yasuhiko Ohba, Shizuoka, JP;
Yuji Fujiwara, Shizuoka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Yamaha Corporation, Shizuoka-Ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A set of formation data codes, which includes action event codes and duration codes, is loaded in an automatic player piano, and a controller interprets the action event codes for driving the solenoid-operated key actuators; since the solenoid-operated key actuators slowly push the associated keys, the hammers do not reach the strings, and any piano tone is not produced; the plungers make the keys sunk to different depth so that the keys are laid on a artistic pattern; the controller sequentially changes the artistic pattern, and offers an artistic visual expression to the audience.