Discrepancies in Pianists’ Experiences in Playing Acoustic and Digital Pianos

Arencibia, Pablo

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37480-8_12

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“…41 Digital pianos are imbued with a sound synthesizer recorded from acoustic pianos and simulate the haptic feedback of the hammer action of the keys, heavier on the left side (lower tones) and lighter on the right (higher tones). 42 In either case, the instrument occupies considerable space.…”

Section: Optical Fiber Pianomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Each key links to a lever-like mechanism responsible for transmitting the hammer action and vibrating the string with a specific length and thickness for the corresponding sound frequency 41 . Digital pianos are imbued with a sound synthesizer recorded from acoustic pianos and simulate the haptic feedback of the hammer action of the keys, heavier on the left side (lower tones) and lighter on the right (higher tones) 42 . In either case, the instrument occupies considerable space.…”

Section: Optical Fiber Pianomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Keyboard-type optical fiber musical interface

Wu,

Fujiwara

2023

Opt. Eng.

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Musical instruments are complex multimodal interfaces combining audiovisual information and motivating researchers to design intuitive and creative ways of communication between the user and the digital system. We demonstrated a musical interface based on an optical fiber specklegram sensor (FSS) for one octave of C major scale. The setup comprises a laser source and a camera connected by a multimode optical fiber cable with foam pads marking the notes. The software recovers the pressed key by computing the cross-correlation coefficient between the immediate speckle pattern and the reference images from prior calibration, estimating their similarity, and taking the closest option as the output. Simultaneously, the software plays the identified key with a sound synthesizer. The experiments validated the proposed interface to play the calibrated notes, independent of the input sequence, with a response delay within 0.5 s, for a single fiber cable and further discuss the possibility of playing chords. With the musical interface processing the positional information of external stimuli, it simplifies the hardware configuration and allows different techniques of musical expression.

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Section: Optical Fiber Pianomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Optical Fiber Pianomentioning

confidence: 99%