摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wind instrument which is usable as an ordinary wind instrument as well and is usable also as a silenceable electronic musical instrument. <P>SOLUTION: A saxophone M having a musical instrument body 10, a mouthpiece 20a exchangeably disposed at the musical instrument body 10 and a finger operation section 12 which comprises a plurality of operators 11 disposed at the musical instrument body 10 and determines musical tones according to the combinations of operations is replaceably provided with an electronic mouthpiece 20 having a lip sensor 24, a tonguing sensor 23 and a wind sensor 25. Magnets 13 are attached to the operators 11 and hall sensors 15 are attached to the portions facing the magnets 13 of the musical instrument body 10. The electronic mouthpiece 20 is provided with a breath flow rate regulator 26 for regulating the breath flow rate and is further provided with a controller 16 for analog processing the signal sent from the lip sensor 24 etc., and a sound source unit 31 for converting the processing signal to a musical tone. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT |