US 7,485,794 B2
Electronic musical instrument system
Tomonori Koizumi, Hamamatsu (Japan)
Assigned to Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu-Shi (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 15, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/724,877.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-082580 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2006; and application No. 2006-082581 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0234883 A1, Oct. 11, 2007
Int. Cl. G10H 1/18 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 84—601  [84/615; 84/477 R; 84/483.1] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic musical instrument system comprising:
a music-piece-related information object having music-piece-related information of a given music piece presented thereon, said music-piece-related information object also having attached thereto an RF tag that has stored therein equipment setting information related to a performance, by an electronic musical instrument, of the given music piece; and
an electronic musical instrument having a performance operation section operable by a user to execute a performance, said electronic musical instrument further comprising:
an information acquisition information that communicates with the RF tag to acquire the equipment setting information from the RF tag; and
an automatic setting section that automatically sets various settings and states of the electronic musical instrument in accordance with the equipment setting information acquired by said information acquisition information.