There is provided a performance tone providing apparatus that enables the user
to listen to musical tones sounded from a desired musical instrument according
to his/her performing operation even if the desired musical instrument does not
exist in the vicinity of the user. Musical tone data including data specifying
pitches of musical tones is received from a communication terminal. A CPU causes
a predetermined musical instrument to carry out automatic performance based on
the received musical tone data. Performance tone data representative of musical
tones sounded from the predetermined musical instrument by the automatic performance
is transmitted to a communication terminal.
