Rockin’ Patent – Nippon Columbia Co Ltd’s “Automatic Rhythm Instrument”
Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 3,482,027 Filed: 27 April 1966 In the name of: Nippon Columbia Co Ltd Title: Automatic Rhythm Instrument What’s claimed: “An automatic rhythm player for electronic musical instruments comprising a pulse oscillator producing pulse train having a period corresponding to a greatest common measure of minimum time duration of various rhythms; means for sequentially arranging at a plurality of output terminals the pulses from the pulse oscillator as pulse trains that are separated and phase-shifted from adjacent ones; a first group of conductors each being connected to each of the plurality of output terminals respectively, the spatially […]
