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Auto-play musical instrument with a chain-play mode for a plurality of demonstration tones
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Inventors: Konishi, Shinya;
Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho (Shizuoka, JP)
Primary Examiner: Witkowski; Stanley J.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
An auto-play musical instrument which has external and internal data storages for auto-play data is disclosed. The auto-play data contain a plurality of music piece data for demonstration tones or background tones. A demonstration button is provided to set a mode for playing back one of music pieces with designating a play number of the auto-play data. A play controller is provided to automatically start a chain-play of the music pieces stored in the external and internal storages when a fixed time interval has passed without any designation of the play number after the set of the demonstration mode. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an auto-play apparatus which can quickly start a continuous auto-play of a plurality of music pieces by an easy operation.
According to one aspect of the present invention, an auto-play apparatus having storage means for storing auto-play data of a plurality of music pieces, and play means for performing an auto-play based on the auto-play data stored in the storage means, comprises mode set means for setting a demonstration mode for performing a continuous auto-play of a music piece, music piece selection means for selecting a music piece to be continuously played back in the demonstration mode, instruction means for, when the music piece selection means does not select a music piece for a predetermined period of time after the demonstration mode is set by the mode set means, instructing to start a chain-play for sequentially and continuously playing back a plurality of music pieces, and play means for, when the instruction means instructs to start the chain-play, sequentially reading out auto-play data of a plurality of music pieces from the storage means, and performing a continuous auto-play of the plurality of music pieces.
According to another aspect of the present invention, the storage means comprises an external storage unit and an internal storage unit arranged in an apparatus main body, and the apparatus further comprises data read-out means for, when the start of the chain-play is instructed, starting a read-out operation of auto-play data from one of the two storage units, and for, when playback operations of music pieces stored in one storage unit are ended, performing a read-out operation of auto-play data from the other storage unit.
According to the present invention, if only a demonstration mode operation member is operated to set a demonstration mode, the instruction means automatically instructs to start a chain-play after an elapse of a predetermined period of time without selection of music pieces, and the play means performs a continuous auto-play of a plurality of music pieces
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Ring Tones 
