Electronic musical instruments with tone color selection

摘要

In an electronic musical instrument of the type comprising a musical tone signal generator responsive to depression and release of a key of a keyboard for generating a musical tone signal, and a selector including a plurality of tone color selection switches for selectively imparting a tone color to the musical tone signal, there are provided a detection circuit to detect variation in states of the tone color selection switches for producing a detection signal, a tone generation inhibit signal generating means responsive to the detection signal for generating a tone generation inhibit signal having a predetermined duration, and a circuit responsive to the tone generation inhibit signal for preventing generation of a musical tone.