Patent ID: 7834262
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. An electronic keyboard instrument comprising: a touch strip in the form of a belt on which a keyboard having a plurality of keys arranged in a left-right direction thereof is displayed and a player slides a player's finger while touching said touch strip, so as to carry out an arpeggio performance; touch position-detecting means for detecting touch positions on said touch strip at which the player's finger touches said touch strip; component pitch name-designating means for designating a plurality of component pitch names to be sounded in the arpeggio performance; arpeggio performance means for sounding musical tones of respective pitch names included in the respective designated component pitch names, in a predetermined arpeggio pattern having a predetermined sounding order, according to the touch positions detected when the player slides his/her finger on said touch strip while touching said touch strip, to thereby carry out the arpeggio performance using the component pitch names; a first musical tone-generating circuit dedicated to generation of musical tones for the arpeggio performance; a plurality of swingable keys; key-on information-detecting means for detecting key-on information on each of the keys; a second musical tone-generating circuit for generating musical tones based on the key-on information detected by said key-on information-detecting means; and switching means for switching a musical tone generating circuit for use in generation of musical tones for the arpeggio performance between said first musical tone-generating circuit and said second musical tone-generating circuit.