Patent ID: 7375274

Claim:
An automatic accompaniment apparatus comprising: a connecting device that connects to an external electronic musical instrument that stores in advance at least one of a plurality of tone color data and a plurality of accompaniment data and generates accompaniment information based on at least one of tone color data and accompaniment data selected from the stored at least one of the plurality of tone color data and the plurality of accompaniment data, and carries out transmission and reception of information to and from the external electronic musical instrument; a list information acquiring device that acquires list information on the at least one of tone color data and accompaniment data stored in the external electronic musical instrument via said connecting device; a presenting device that presents the list information acquired by said list information acquiring device to a user; and a transmitting device that transmits control information for causing the external electronic musical instrument to set at least one of tone color data and accompaniment data selected by the user from the list information presented by said presenting device to the external electronic musical instrument via said connecting device.