US 7,321,094 B2
Electronic musical instrument
Shinya Sakurada, Hamamatsu (Japan)
Assigned to Yamaha Corporation, (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 30, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/903,246.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-203681 (JP), filed on Jul. 30, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0076774 A1, Apr. 14, 2005
Int. Cl. G10H 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 84—616  [84/477 R; 84/485 R; 84/603; 84/609; 84/615] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A musical instrument having a plurality of performance operators and an oral input section for inputting a signal containing pitch information related to a pitch generated by a mouth, the musical instrument comprising:
an ancillary performance section for sequentially outputting first performance data representative of a tone pitch of a musical tone;
a pitch data generating section for generating pitch data corresponding to a tone pitch represented by the first performance data sequentially output from the ancillary performance section; and
a tone pitch determination section for determining in a first playing mode a tone pitch of a musical tone that should be generated solely on the basis of the pitch represented by the generated pitch data and a combination of operation of the plurality of performance operators, regardless of any signal input to the oral input section.