Patent ID: 7470851

Claim:
An electronic stringed instrument comprising: pitch detection means in which a pitch of a string vibration is detected for each of a plurality of specified periods of time; level detection means in which an envelope level of the string vibration is detected; sound generation start instruction means in which the start of the generation of a musical tone is instructed based on the pitch that has been detected by the pitch detection means and the envelope level that has been detected by the level detection means; storage means in which the pitches that have been detected by the pitch detection means are stored successively; sound generation termination instruction means in which the termination of the musical tone, the start of the generation of which has been instructed by the sound generation start instruction means, is instructed based on the envelope level that has been detected by the level detection means; and note height instruction means in which in those cases where when the sound generation termination instruction means instructs the termination of the sound generation, the pitch that has been detected by the pitch detection means is roughly a halftone lower than the pitch that has been detected at a specified time earlier and stored in the storage means, instructs the note height based on the pitch that has been detected at the specified time earlier that is stored in the storage means.