Patent ID: 7268289

Claim:
A musical instrument for producing tones, comprising: plural manipulators assigned respective manipulator numbers, and selectively moved between respective rest positions and respective end positions for specifying an attribute of said tones; a tone generating system connected to said plural manipulators, and actuated by said plural manipulators for producing said tones at said attribute specified through said plural manipulators; and a controlling system including plural actuators respectively associated with said plural manipulators, and responsive to driving signals so as to give rise to motion of said plural manipulators, and a controller analyzing action event codes indicative of at least a velocity of the manipulators to be moved without producing said tones, the manipulator numbers of said manipulators and a stroke from the rest positions and supplying said driving signals representative of said velocity and target values of said stroke to the actuators associated with said manipulators to be moved, the driving signals produced on the basis of said action event codes making said manipulators start to return toward said rest positions before the actuation of said tone generating system without any interruption of another component parts of said musical instrument.