Patent ID: 7297862
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A musical tone control apparatus comprising: a storage device that stores musical piece data containing interval data indicative of intervals of musical tones constituting a musical piece; an operating element comprising a pair of members joined together via a telescopic joining member, a detecting device that detects a start and stop motion of the operating element; a controller that provides control so as to instruct a musical tone output device capable of outputting musical tones to adopt the intervals as one of characteristic amounts relating to musical tones to be output from the musical tone output device, according to the input interval data, and instruct the musical tone output device to adopt at least one of the characteristic amounts relating to musical tones other than the intervals, including note duration, to be output from the musical tone output device, according to the musical piece data, according to the start motion of the operator detected by said detecting device, and to quit output from the musical tone output device, according to the musical piece data, according to the stop motion of the operator detected by said detecting device; wherein said controller is responsive to at least one of said pair of members being moved away from each other and said pair of members being moved toward each other according to the start of motion of the operator detected by said detecting device, for instructing the musical tone output device to output at least one associated musical tone of the musical tones constituting the musical piece; and wherein said musical tone output device outputs the musical tones according to the musical interval data when the musical interval data are inputted, and maintains the outout of musical tones until it receive a stop instruction for outout based on the stop motion of the operator detected by said detecting device, whereupon the musical tone outout device puts an end to output the musical tones according to the stop instruction from said controller.