Stage-Worthy Sensor Bows for Stringed Instruments

Musical Applications of New, Multi-axis Guitar String Sensors

The development and application of new optical, piezoelectric and variable reluctance transducers is described for polyphonic stringed instruments especially the guitar.

Parallel Monitoring of Sound and Dynamic Forces in Bridge-Soundboard Contact of Violins

The paper refers on an original experimental activity oriented to correlate sound and internal forces generated in violins. In particular static and dynamic forces generated in the contacts between bridge and soundboard-playing instruments belonging violins family are analysed respect to the generated sound. A classical violin has been instrumented with two force sensors, wireless interfaced to...

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Many fascinating new developments in the area bowed stringed instruments have been developed in recent years. However, the majority of these new applications are either not well known, used or considered in a broader context by their target users. The necessary exchange between the world of developers and the players is rather limited. A group of performers, researchers, instrument developers a...

Physics-based Sound Synthesis of Stringed Instruments Including Geometric Nonlinearities

Tablatures for Stringed Instruments and Generating Functions

We study some combinatorial properties related to the problem of tablature for stringed instruments. First, we describe the problem in a formal way and prove that it is equivalent to a finite state automaton. We define the concepts of distance between two chords and tablature complexity in order to study the problem of tablature in terms of music performance. By using the Schützenberger methodo...