Mechanized Characterization of Musical Keyboard Touch Response
dc.contributor.author | Alspaugh, Jessica | |
dc.contributor.author | DeLeon, Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | Feeney, Kate | |
dc.contributor.author | Griffiths, Corey | |
dc.contributor.author | Roman, Anthony | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Gillespie, Brent | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-04-23T19:00:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-04-23T19:00:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-04 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/50503 | |
dc.description | ME450 Capstone Design and Manufacturing Experience: Winter 2007 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Current digital keyboards, even weighted keyboards, have a different touch response (feel) than acoustic pianos, which affects a pianist’s ability to learn and perform. Keyboardists rely on the touch and haptic response from the keys as feedback. We have designed and fabricated a device that measures the touch response of a grand piano key, by taking force, position, velocity, and acceleration measurements and fitting characterization models. Our device, while measuring response, will impose force/motion inputs on a key that mimic key strikes by a human. In the future, this data could be used to create a digital keyboard with a touch response that more closely approximates that of the acoustic grand piano. Our device will be a research tool to help bridge the gap between digital and acoustic keyboards. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Professor Brent Gillespie U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering. Jay LeBoeuf Advanced Technology Group, Digidesign. ME 450. | en |
dc.format.extent | 1592208 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.title | Mechanized Characterization of Musical Keyboard Touch Response | en |
dc.type | Project | en |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Mechanical Engineering | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | ME 450 Students | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/50503/1/me450w07project12_report.pdf | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Mechanical Engineering, Department of |
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