Patent ID: 7041888

Claim:
A fingering guide displaying apparatus comprising: a display device; a storage device for storing music piece constituting note data which represent a group of notes to constitute a music piece as expressed according to a nomenclature in a reference tonality, transposition data which represent for at least one transposing musical instrument a pitch difference between said reference tonality and an instrument tonality which is unique to said transposing musical instrument, and fingering pattern data which represent fingering patterns for available notes of said transposing musical instrument as expressed in a nomenclature in said instrument tonality; a play note identifying device for identifying notes to be played at respectively given times out of said group of notes represented by said music piece constituting note data; a note pitch shifting device for reading out said transposition data from said storage device, and respectively transposing the pitches of said identified notes by the amount of said pitch difference represented by said transposition data to obtain respectively shifted note pitches which are expressed in the nomenclature in said instrument tonality and which are respectively identical with the pitches of said respectively identified notes as expressed in said reference tonality; and a display control device for reading out from said storage device said fingering pattern data representing fingering patterns which respectively correspond to said shifted note pitches obtained by said note pitch shifting device, and causing said display device to display said fingering patterns represented by said read-out fingering pattern data.