Piano players need to learn various techniques such as correct keying and fingering. However, the lighted keyboards, which light up the key and are the most commonly used piano learning supports, have several problems for learners, such as difficulty in understanding the presented fingering information and flow of keying positions, and lack of a fingering check function. To resolve these proble...

An excitation/filter system of Inharmonic sound synthesis signal is presented with an application to piano, a stiff string instrument. Specific features of the piano string important in wave propagation, dispersion due to stiffness, frequency dependent losses and presence of phantom partials are included in the proposed model. The modified narrow bandpass filter is used as a basic building bloc...

Measurement of discharge in open channels is one of the main concerns in hydraulic engineering. The structures used for this aim should be accurate, economical and easy to use. Weirs are among the oldest and most convenient hydraulic structures that have been used in both laboratory and field for flow measurement in open channels. Due to limitations of simple sharp crested weirs, recently compo...

Virtually all of western classical music could be recorded and stored on a singls computer disk and rendered on a music system costing as much as a good piano. To demonstrate and explore this, I built a system for audio and musical research which permits a workstation to control 64 synthesizers and a computerized Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand piano. It is easy to assemble and play complex ...

The Electromagnetically Sustained Rhodes Piano is an original Rhodes Piano modified to provide control over the amplitude envelope of individual notes through aftertouch pressure. Although there are many opportunities to shape the amplitude envelope before loudspeaker amplification, they are all governed by the ever-decaying physical vibrations of the tone generating mechanism. A single-note pr...

Lip reading is known to activate the planum temporale (PT), a brain region which may integrate visual and auditory information. To find out whether other types of learned audio-visual integration occur in the PT, we investigated "key-touch reading" using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). As well-trained pianists are able to identify pieces of music by watching the key-touching movem...

Trapezoidal labyrinth weirs offer significant flow magnification for the available width of approach channel and that of the downstream chute. These types of weirs may find great utility and hence will have to be designed and provided for river linking projects. There are many factors such as head to crest height ratio, angle of side walls, vertical aspect ratio, apex width and approach and con...