Touch and temporal behavior of grand piano actions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1154-1165

  Goebl, Werner ^a   Bresin, Roberta ^b   Galembo, Alexander ^c  

^a AUSTRIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   (Austria)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALIBRATION; MICROPHONES; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

CONTACT TIME; DYNAMIC LEVELS; PIANO; TRAVEL TIME;

ACOUSTICS;

ACCELEROMETER; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; MICROPHONE; MUSIC; NOISE; PEDAGOGICS; PIANO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TIME;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINGERS; HUMANS; MUSIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 23744457104     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1944648     Document Type: Article

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