Making music on a professional level requires a maximum of sensorimotor precision. Chronotype-dependent fluctuations of sensorimotor precision in the course of the day may prove a challenge for musicians because public performances or recordings are usually scheduled at fixed times of the day. We investigated pianists' sensorimotor timing precision in a scale playing task performed in the morni...

The purpose of this study is to design a portable virtual piano. By utilizing optical fiber gloves and the virtual piano software designed by this study, the user can play the piano anywhere at any time. This virtual piano consists of three major parts: finger tapping identification, hand movement and positioning identification, and MIDI software sound effect simulation. To play the virtual pia...

Both timbre and dynamics of isolated piano tones are determined exclusively by the speed with which the hammer hits the strings. This physical view has been challenged by pianists who emphasize the importance of the way the keyboard is touched. This article presents empirical evidence from two perception experiments showing that touch-dependent sound components make sounds with identical hammer...

Common coding theory suggests that any action (pressing a piano key) is intimately linked with its resultant sensory effect (an auditory musical tone). We conducted two experiments to explore the effect of varying auditory action-effect patterns during complex action learning. In Experiment 1, participants were assigned to 1 of 4 groups, watched a silent video of a hand playing a sequence on a ...

Piano key weirs (PKWs) with crown parapet walls effectively manage water levels and maximize storage. However, their efficiency is compromised by interactions between flow submerged outlets during rising levels. This study investigates novel wall designs to improve PKW performance reduce submergence effects. The experiment focuses on a fixed 12.6 cm weir height. Three configurations are tested:...

This paper presents the magnetic resonator piano, an augmented instrument enhancing the capabilities of the acoustic grand piano. Electromagnetic actuators induce the strings to vibration, allowing each note to be continuously controlled in amplitude, frequency, and timbre without external loudspeakers. Feedback from a single pickup on the piano soundboard allows the actuator waveforms to remai...

In this paper, we present a method for the automatic transcription of polyphonic piano music. The input to this method consists in piano music recordings stored in WAV files, while the pitch of all the notes in the corresponding score forms the output. This method operates on a frame-by-frame basis and exploits a suitable time-frequency representation of the audio signal. The solution proposed ...