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Title:
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2012103396
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a musical instrument, even if an internal space of a resonance section to which vibration of a vibrator is transmitted is small, issuing sound with a sound quality close to resonance characteristics when the internal space of the resonance section is large.

A guitar 1 includes: a trunk part 10 for resonating the vibration of a string 2 in an internal space; a microphone 30 converting a sonic wave reaching a boundary surface CA in the trank part 10, into an electric signal and outputting it; a signal processing part 100 performing, to the electric signal, a signal processing for providing sound effect according to the shape of a virtual resonance space that is virtually spread from the boundary surface CA outward the trunk part 10; and a speaker 40 converting the electric signal to which the signal processing is performed, into the sonic wave and outputting it from the boundary surface CA towards the internal space.


Inventors:
MASUDA HIDEYUKI
Application Number:
JP2010250635A
Publication Date:
May 31, 2012
Filing Date:
November 09, 2010
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
YAMAHA CORP
International Classes:
G10H3/12; G10H1/10; G10H3/18
Domestic Patent References:
JP2007271738A2007-10-18
JP2010191067A2010-09-02
JPH07240993A1995-09-12
JP2010016429A2010-01-21
JPH1097242A1998-04-14
JPH0229794A1990-01-31
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Asahi Patent Office