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Guessing the fingerings

2017
Student Projects

Abstract

On most musical instruments, especially on the guitar, it is possible to play the same note or chord in multiple ways. In this project, we develop a simple audio-based method to estimate the fingering of a note played on an acoustic guitar from a recording. Such a system has several applications, including musical training, musical education, or analysis of historical recordings. The advantage of our method with respect to the state-of-the-art is that it is simple and efficient: it uses a single feature, the inharmonicity coefficient. In spite of its simplicity, this method performs well in both synthetic and real audio recordings: the misclassification rate that we achieve is of 12.3 %.

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/177fb8dc-9d24-4a6f-a507-ab069fcc9f53

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2017
Student Projects

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/177fb8dc-9d24-4a6f-a507-ab069fcc9f53

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist. The history of musical instruments dates to the beginnings of human culture. Early musical instruments may have been used for rituals, such as a horn to signal success on the hunt, or a drum in a religious ceremony.

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Wire recording, also known as magnetic wire recording, was the first magnetic recording technology, an analog type of audio storage. It recorded sound signals on a thin steel wire using varying levels of magnetization. The first crude magnetic recorder was invented in 1898 by Valdemar Poulsen. The first magnetic recorder to be made commercially available anywhere was the Telegraphone, manufactured by the American Telegraphone Company, Springfield, Massachusetts in 1903.

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An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Such an instrument sounds by outputting an electrical, electronic or digital audio signal that ultimately is plugged into a power amplifier which drives a loudspeaker, creating the sound heard by the performer and listener. An electronic instrument might include a user interface for controlling its sound, often by adjusting the pitch, frequency, or duration of each note.

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