Patent ID: 8461445

Claim:
An electronic percussion musical instrument comprising: a music playing manipulation unit including a plurality of playing pads arranged so that adjacent playing pads border and confront each other along their boundaries, each of the plurality of playing pads constituting a manipulating face zone for playing music by manipulating the face zone; a group setting unit that sets a grouped pad zone by combining at least two adjacent playing pads among the plurality of playing pads to provide a virtually enlarged area of the manipulating face zone; a storage unit that stores plural timbres of musical tones and information regarding identification numbers given to the respective playing pads; a musical tone allocating unit that allocates different timbres of musical tones stored in the storage unit to individual playing pads; a representative timber setting unit that collectively sets as a group, to all of the playing pads belonging to the set grouped pad zone, a same representative timber of musical tone among the plural timbres of musical tones allocated to the playing pads belonging to the set grouped pad zone, based on an identification number with a highest priority given among the identification numbers of the playing pads belonging to the set grouped pad zone; a music playing manipulation detecting unit that detects a music playing manipulation performed onto each of the playing pads; and a musical tone generating unit that generates, for each of the playing pads other than the playing pads belonging to the set grouped pad zone, a musical tone in the timbre allocated thereto, and for all of the playing pads belonging to the set grouped pad zone, a same musical tone of the representative timbre, according to the manipulation of any of the playing pads as detected by the music playing manipulation detecting unit.