Patent ID: 7968787

Claim:
An electronic musical instrument comprising: a performance operator unit for a user to perform music performance operation; a storage section that stores, in association with at least one music piece, at least one piece of performance parameter setting information each for setting a performance parameter to be used in said electronic musical instrument when a desired music piece is to be performed by the user using said performance operator unit; a connection interface that connects, to said electronic musical instrument, an external audio player having a plurality of items of music content stored therein and that reproduces any one of the items of music content stored therein; an input section that inputs user-desired music piece character information as a search condition; an extraction section that, in accordance with the search condition input via said input section, extracts, from said storage section, at least one music piece matching the desired music piece character information; a designation section that designates any one of the at least one music piece extracted by said extraction section; an instruction section that instructs, via said connection interface, the external audio player to select, from among the plurality of items of music content stored in the external audio player, particular music content corresponding to the music piece designated by said designation section and reproduce the selected music content; and a performance parameter setting section that reads out, from said storage section, the performance parameter setting information associated with the designated music piece and automatically sets a performance parameter in said electronic musical instrument on the basis of the read-out performance parameter setting information.