Patent ID: 7470855

Claim:
An electronic musical instrument comprising: a first operation device that generates tone-generation-start instructing information and release-start instructing information in response to operation thereof by a human operator; a second operation device that generates ON operation information and OFF operation information in response to turning-on operation and turning-off operation thereof, respectively, by a human operator; a storage device that stores one or more rendition style parameters each for realizing a release rendition style characteristic of a release section of a tone; a detection section that detects an operation time length from a time point when the ON operation information is generated by said second operation device to a time point when the OFF operation information is generated by said second operation device; a selection section that, on the basis of the operation time length detected by said detection section, selects any one of the rendition style parameters stored in said storage device; and a tone generation control section that starts generation of a tone in accordance with the tone-generation-start instructing information generated by said first operation device and silences the generated tone in accordance with one of the release-start instructing information generated by said first operation device and the OFF operation information generated by said second operation device that is generated earlier than other, wherein said tone generation control section silences the generated tone in accordance with a standard release rendition style when the release-start instructing information has been generated earlier than the OFF operation information, but silences the generated tone in accordance with a release rendition style corresponding to the rendition style parameter selected via the selection section.