Patent ID: 6297437
Filing Date: 2001-10-02
Classification: G10H,Y10S

Abstract:
A keyboard musical instrument comprisingmanipulators movable through a space divided into sections between respective rest positions of said manipulators and respective end positions of said manipulators,sensors respectively provided for said manipulators and measuring trajectories of the associated manipulators in said sections,a controller connected to said sensors and calculating a section velocity of each of said manipulators in each of said sections so as to determine the trajectory of each manipulator to be categorized in one of kinds of the motions of said manipulators on the basis of the values of said section velocity respectively calculated in said sections, anda tone generator connected to said controller and regulating an attribute of a sound to be produced in response to said each manipulator to an appropriate value on the basis of one of said values of said section velocity selected depending upon said one of the kinds of said motions.