Patent ID: 7238875

Claim:
An electronic musical instrument comprising: a body; a neck; a fingerboard provided on said neck; a plurality of pitch determination operating elements provided on said fingerboard, for determining a pitch; a plurality of sounding timing determination operating elements each having an operated end, provided on said body, for determining sounding timing; a musical tone generating device that generates musical tones according to operations of said pitch determination operating elements and said plurality of sounding timing determination operating elements; and at least one mute fingerboard that comes into contact with a part of a player's body to mute musical tones being sounded by said musical tone generating device and corresponding to operations of respective ones of said plurality of sounding timing determination operating elements, wherein said mute fingerboard is disposed and exposed in a vicinity of the operated end of said plurality of sounding timing determination operating elements, wherein said mute fingerboard comprises a single mute fingerboard disposed in the vicinity of the operated ends of all of said plurality of sounding timing determination operating elements for concurrently damping each of said plurality of sounding timing determination operating elements.