Measurement and reproduction accuracy of computer-controlled grand pianos

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 2273-2283

  Goebl, Werner ^a,b   Bresin, Roberto ^b  

^a AUSTRIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   (Austria)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MICROPHONES; SOUND RECORDING; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

GRAND PIANOS;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICE; DYNAMICS; ERROR; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MUSIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0142121624     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1605387     Document Type: Article

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