Patent ID: 7807907

Claim:
A musical instrument for a player, comprising: a housing; plural manipulators supported by said housing, and exposed to said player so that said player selectively moves said plural manipulators between rest positions and end positions for specifying tones; a driven linkwork having a stationary portion supported by said housing and a movable portion rotatable with respect to said stationary portion thereof; and plural action units connected between said plural manipulators and said driven linkwork so as to transmit force applied through said plural manipulators to said driven linkwork, each of said plural action units including a whippen assembly rotatably supported by said housing and driven for rotation by one of said manipulators, a jack mechanism having a stationary portion supported by said housing and a movable portion rotatably supported by said whippen assembly, wherein when said one manipulator is moved from the rest position toward said end position, rotation of said whippen assembly causes said movable portion of the jack mechanism to be brought into contact with said stationary portion thereof thus causing rotation of said movable portion of said jack mechanism about said whippen assembly to drive said movable portion of said driven linkwork, a repetition mechanism having an elastically deformable guide having a substantially uniform thickness and is supported by said whippen assembly, said repetition mechanism being deformed by said stationary portion of said driven linkwork when said jack mechanism is driving said movable portion of said driven linkwork, said repetition mechanism being recovered from the deformation when said one manipulator moves from said end position to said rest position so as to be brought into contact with said movable portion of said driven linkwork for repetition of manipulation on said one manipulator.