Patent ID: 7381880
Filing Date: 2008-06-03
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A musical instrument for producing tones, comprising: a tone generating system including: plural link-works selectively actuated for designating the pitch of said tones to be produced, each of said plural link-works having a certain component part moved in a space having an ordinary zone and a zone outside of said ordinary zone so that the certain component parts of said plural link-works have the respective spaces divisible into the respective ordinary zones and the respective zones, and a tone generating subsystem driven to produce said tones by means of said plural link works; and a recording system including: plural sensors monitoring at least the certain component parts of said plural link-works moved in said respective spaces and producing detecting signals carrying pieces of data each representative of a physical quantity for expressing motion of said certain component parts, and a data processing unit analyzing said pieces of data for producing a set of music data codes representative of said tones produced by said tone generating system, wherein said set of music data codes includes certain music data codes each having a data field assigned to a bit string expressing said physical quantity in said ordinary zones at a resolution and in said zones at another resolution different from said resolution.