ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH MUSICAL TONE PARAMETER SWITCHING FUNCTION

摘要

An electronic musical instrument includes a musical tone generation instructor for detecting a breath operation state at a mouthpiece portion arranged on an instrument main body and instructing generation of a musical tone, a lip detection part for detecting a biting strength at said mouthpiece portion, a control information output part for outputting a plurality of parameter control information for variably controlling contents of at least one parameter of a musical tone to be generated so as to be varied in accordance with the biting strength detected by the lip detection part on the basis of instruction by the musical tone generation instructing part, a designation part for designating an arbitrary one of the plurality of parameter control information to be output from the control information output part, and a control part for, when the biting strength at the mouthpiece portion is detected by the lip detection part under a condition that the one parameter control information is designated by the designation part, outputting the one parameter control information in response to detection of the biting strength and for variably controlling a parameter of the musical tone generated by the musical tone generation instructing part in accordance with the parameter control information.