Patent ID: 8581087

Claim:
A tone generating style notification control apparatus for a musical instrument having a mouthpiece section and a body section, the mouthpiece section being operable with a mouth of a human player, said tone generating style notification control apparatus comprising: a detector which detects a physical amount caused by operation performed on the mouthpiece section with the mouth of the human player; a storage section which stores therein information defining relationship between various values or ranges of the physical amount and tone pitches; an identification section which, by referencing said storage section, identifies a tone pitch corresponding to the physical amount detected via said detector; and a notification section which notifies the human player of an expected tone generating style on the basis of the tone pitch identified by said identification section, the expected tone generating style being a style of a tone expected to be generated by the musical instrument in response to the operation performed on the mouthpiece section with the mouth of the human player, wherein the mouthpiece section is displaceable relative to the body section, and wherein the physical amount detected by said detector is an operational position of the mouthpiece section responsive to displacement of the mouthpiece section relative to the body section.