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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2013
Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Dejima, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuichi Nakae, Tokyo, JP;
Akio Iba, Tokyo, JP;
Katsutoshi Sakai, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuyoshi Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic stringed instrumentincludes a string-pressing sensorthat detects a state of contact between each of a plurality of fretsand each of a plurality of strings. A CPUdetects that picking of any of the plurality of strings, provides a sound generation instruction to a connected sound sourceto produce musical sound of a pitch determined based on the detected state of contact, detects a vibration pitch of the stringof which picking was detected, and corrects the pitch of the musical sound generated by the connected sound sourcebased on the detected vibration pitch.