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Towards to Haptic Keyboard: Modeling the Piano Action

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Mechatronics 2013

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Keyboards of digital pianos havemoderate dynamic performance compared to that of grand pianos. Real needs emerged to emulate haptic features of a piano action by a simple device. This paper deals with analytical and experimental investigation of check and repetition phase of touch. Finding out the relationship among initial velocity of hammer, duration and magnitude of impact impulse, key position, fly of time gives sound foundation for development of a haptic keyboard that offers the same sensation for pianist as the acoustic one. Parameters of governing expressions were determined by measurements.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Széchenyi István University, Egyetem tér 1, H-9026, Győr, Hungary

    P. Horváth

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  1. Institute of Automation and Computer Science, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Březina

  2. Institute of Metrology and Biomedical Engineering, Warszaw University of Technology, Warszaw, Poland

    Ryszard Jabloński

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Horváth, P. (2014). Towards to Haptic Keyboard: Modeling the Piano Action. In: Březina, T., Jabloński, R. (eds) Mechatronics 2013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02294-9_7

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