Tone control device

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8835732
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13919970

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Provided is a tone control device coupled to a musical instrument including a plurality of pipes capable of generating tones with differing pitches for keys, wherein the pipes are arranged in rows, comprising: a tone generation device that generates tone; a pipe designation device that designates a specified pipe among the pipes installed; and a control device that causes the tone generation device to generate a substituting tone corresponding to the specified pipe when a depressed key comprising one of the keys corresponds to the specified pipe designated by the pipe designation device, and the specified pipe is a pipe belonging to one of the rows of pipes designated as a tone generation subject for the depressed key.

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ROLAND CORPORATION2036-1 NAKAGAWA HOSOE-CHO KITA-KU HAMAMATSU SHIZUOKA 431-1304

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
McFerran, John K North Plains, US 1 1
Miki, Junichi Hamamatsu, JP 2 1
Nogami, Kenji Hamamatsu, JP 7 67
Sugizaki, Takahiro Hamamatsu, JP 2 1

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