Patent ID: 7450971

Claim:
A telecommunication terminal apparatus operable for providing a notification using a melody, comprising: storage means configured to store musical composition data in which a plurality of starting points suitable for starting a performance are set; point register means for storing information indicative of an arbitrary performance starting position of the musical composition data; and musical tone-generating means responsive to an instruction for starting the notification using the melody, for reading out the musical composition data from said storage means and for reproducing the read out musical composition data according to the information indicative of the arbitrary performance starting position, stored in said point register means, to thereby start generating the melody from the arbitrary performance starting position of the musical composition data wherein said musical tone-generating means is responsive to an instruction for ending the notification using the melody, for stopping reproducing the musical composition data, for detecting a reproduction stop position of the musical composition data having been reproduced, and for writing a starting point corresponding to a rear position closest to the detected reproduction stop position among the plurality of starting points into said point register means.