ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

摘要

A guitar-like electronic musical instrument for use with a synthesiser has six pitch strings (40) on the neck (22) which the player depresses onto conductive frets (62) to determine the selected semitone. A transducer senses if the player forces the string laterally on the fret and if the string is so laterally forced (bent) beyond a threshold (40A), further pitch detection is inhibited. The fret construction can be much simplified and there is no danger of spurious notes being caused by contact with adjacent strings.