In a piano lesson, a teacher teaches a way of performance by providing indirect cues, e.g., metaphors and singing. A model performance is one of the important cues. Meanwhile, it is difficult even for the teacher to perform a very technical piece without enough practice, even if he/she had formerly performed it. However, the teacher still retains his/her knowledge for performing the piece. Acco...

Playing a musical instrument demands the integration of sensory and perceptual information with motor processes in order to produce a harmonic musical piece. The diversity of brain mechanisms involved and the joyful character of playing an instrument make musical instrument training a potential vehicle for neurorehabilitation of motor skills in patients with cerebral palsy (CP). This clinical c...

Functional asymmetry of the parietal lobes during piano performance was assessed utilizing independent componentcross correlation-sequential epoch analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging time series. Eight right handed musically trained subjects played the piano with their right hand, left hand, or both hands as cued by visually presented musical scores. The areas activated included t...

Awareness of playing movements can help a piano student to improve technique. We are developing a piano pedagogy application that uses sensor data of hand and arm movement and generates feedback to increase movement awareness. This paper reports on a method for analysis of piano playing movements. The method allows to judge whether an active movement in a joint has occurred during a given time ...

Thanks to the development of the Internet, people can easily access a vast amount of music. This brings attention to application systems such as a melody-based music search service or music recommendation service. Extracting melodies from music is a crucial process to provide such services. This paper introduces a novel algorithm that can extract melodies from piano music. Since piano can produ...

Labyrinth weirs are utilized to transport a greater discharge during floods in contrast conventional due their increased weir crest length. Nevertheless, the geometric complexity of labyrinth weirs, determination accurate coefficients and accordingly, head-discharge ratings quite essential issues practical application. Hence, as first step present study proposes following eight standalone algor...

ANSYS-CFX is an effective and multipurpose software which can be used for simulation the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions at all levels of complexity. This software can be used for numerical solution of two and three dimensional flows, compressible and incompressible flows, viscous and non-viscous flows, laminar and turbulent flows, Newtonian and non-Newtonian flows, porous media, s...