Patent ID: 7820903

Claim:
An electronic percussion instrument comprising: position detection means for detecting a position of a striking surface that is set to any arbitrary position; striking detection means for detecting whether the striking surface has been struck; musical tone generation instruction means for instructing a sound source to generate a musical tone in conformance with a position of the striking surface detected by the position detection means, in the event that the striking detection means detects a strike on the striking surface; musical tone stopping instruction means for instructing the sound source to stop or discontinue generating the musical tone, if the position of the striking surface detected by the position detection means is a first position; first timing means for timing at least one specified time period from which the striking detection means detects that the striking surface has been struck; and control means for suppressing the instructing of the sound source to stop or discontinue generating the musical tone during a time interval up to the lapse of a first specified time period timed by the first timing means.