• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.19
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• pp.321-329
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• 1999

An automated manufacturing process mechanism for string musical instruments has been designed in this study. In contrast to other manufacturing products, classical string instruments try to preserve their traditional design shapes even in these days and involve variety of wood working(carpentry) characteristics including highly skilled curved surfaces treatments. Great efforts have been put to develop an integrated and automated system for improved product quality and process control, reduced physical labors, better safety etc. They, however, have been limited to devise jigs and tools with regard to selected processes due to lack of technology and research man-powers. We carefully examined the products and process characteristics, and an automated mechanism which overcome prevailing drawbacks has been derived.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.743-744
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• 2023

타브(TAB) 악보는 주로 현악기에서 쓰이는 악보로, 일반적으로 생각하는 오선보 대신 악기의 줄 수만큼 선을 긋고 그 선 위에 프렛의 위치를 숫자 또는 문자로 표기한 형식의 악보이다. 본 논문에서는 입력된 PDF 형식의 타브 악보에서 OpenCV 를 사용하여 음표 및 악상 기호를 인식하는 시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템은 사용자가 인식을 원하는 PDF 형식의 악보를 입력하면 PDF 파일을 PNG 파일로 변경한 뒤, 이를 OpenCV 를 활용하여 음표의 길이, 프렛의 위치 등 연주에 필요한 요소들만 객체 검출한 뒤 Tesseract 로 인식한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.255-258
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 파동 방정식으로부터 클래식 기타의 Physical 모델을 유도해 낸 후 이를 구현하였다. 이러한 모델을 이용해 별도의 음원 데이터를 사용하지 않고 현재 전자 음악에서 일반적으로 사용되는 table look-Up 방식보다 효율적으로 악기 음을 함성 할 수 있도록 하였다. 파동 방정식은 현의 장력, 길이 및 질량 데이터를 이용해 현의 움직임을 표현한 것이며 이 식으로부터 Fourier Series를 유도하고 다시 Z 변환을 거쳐 현의 운동을 모델링하였다. 이 과정에서 현의 양끝에서 반사되는 신호의 크기를 모델링에 포함 시켰다. 이러한 현의 모델은 모든 종류의 현악기에 공통으로 적용될 수 있으며 현의 장력 길이, 질량 데이터를 변화해 다양한 현의 특성들을 모델링 할 수 있다. 또 음 합성을 위해 현의 초기 상태 및 연속되는 입력 데이터를 바꿔 클래식 기타의 다양한 음들을 합성 할 수 있다. 클래식 기타의 Physical 모델을 평가하기 위해, 실제 악기 음 및 table look-up 방식으로 합성된 음들을 녹음해 서로 비교하였다. 시간 및 주파수 도메인 상에서 비교가 이뤄 졌으며 table look-up 합성 방식에서 모든 주파수대가 동일하게 감소하고 비슷한 음역에서 음 높이에 적합한 배음 주파수 비율을 조절할 수 없는 등, 각 을의 특성들을 정확히 묘사할 수 없는 문제점을 극복할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.550-555
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• 2009

A violin plays an essential role among string instruments. It has an extremely strong expressive power that can be conveyed through beautiful timbre when played correctly. However, a beginner who attempts to play the violin will be most likely to face difficulties in placing his or her fingers on a specific point of the fingerboard or in bowing the violin on a specific string. In order to resolve this difficulty, the database of a professional violinist's bowing skills were inserted beforehand. By doing so, a beginner can emulate professional's violin by comparing his playing with the constructed database that is programmed in the computer. Accordingly, the results are displayed on the monitor after being evaluated by the performance evaluation function using a fuzzy logic.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.197-206
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• 2006

Vibration of string is transmitted to the front plate through bridge to cause resonance of the instrument body in viol family string instruments. Therefore. the properties. geometrical shape. and positioning of the bridge are expected to have some effect on the sound color. In this study the strain and the stress in the bridge. and the force exerted on the top plate by the bridge as the string vibrates the bridge in cello are calculated through simulation based on the theory of elasticity. The modes of vibration and the characteristic frequencies are also found. Furthermore. the effect of geometric shape of bridge on sound color is studied in terms of frequency response. The results of this study show that the vibration characteristics of bridge is quite complex and the properties and the geometrical shape of bridge have significant effect on sound color, and therefore. the sound color of a cello can be controlled by changing the geometrical shape of bridge.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.57-65
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• 2012

Interactive games allow users to obtain embodied experience using the bodies as controllers. The same is true in interactive media arts where users engage in active participation. In contrast to video games, physical body feedback is desired and such practice can be found in robotic arts. I suggest that interactive media arts and interactive games should share common foundations. In this context, I introduce and explain an interactive robotic art work implemented. This work is a musical instrument that employs a robot which travels sitting on two strings in response to audience positions. In results, the robot modulates the vibrations of the strings by causing the effective lengths of the strings changed. The robot uses an economic multi-cell proximity sensor in order to track the audience. In the interaction, phenomenological tension could take place in the performative narrative space. In this paper, I discuss this interactive robotic work in the context of interactive games with a few examples.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.361-368
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• 2013

As one way to describe the behavior of a vibrating string, analogies to a transmission line have been made based on the fact that they have oppositely travelling waves on each of them. In such analogies, a rigid end to the string has been represented as an open circuit, and the displacement of the string as the current on the transmission line. However it turns out that the rigid end corresponds to a short circuit, the displacement to the voltage by the theory of the transmission line, and it is confirmed by experiments with circuit simulations. Based on these discoveries, a transmission line based plucked string model comprising a transmission line, two piecewise linear current sources, and switches is proposed. The proposed model is validated by showing that the voltage at the arbitrarily chosen location, and the voltage calculated over an infinitesimal portion at the end of the transmission line are consistent with the displacement at the corresponding location and the force on the rigid end of the string from the well known difference form of a wave equation governing the behavior of the string with its fundamental frequency tuned to that for the proposed model, respectively. Moreover, the applicability of the proposed model to modeling string and wind instruments is presented.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.129-136
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• 2011

This paper presents the coding method that have multi-mode and efficiency of audio codecs using the feature of audio signal. Recently, the developed extension super-wideband codec based on G.718 wideband divides two mode between Generic and Sinusiodal. So codec efficently encode audio signal exist in super-wideband. But the codec is not as efficent coding for harmonic component of wind instrument and string instrument and individual-Line component of percussion instrument. The proposed method are modeling and encoding multiple pitch and individual-line feature using multi mode coding. For the performance evaluation, we used SNR in MDCT domain for objective test and MUSHRA test for subjective test. As a result, the performance of SNR and MUSHRA test of the proposed method have better performance than the G.718 super-wideband codec.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.33 no.4 s.132
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• pp.15-22
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• 2005

The acoustic properties of various coatings for stringed musical instruments made were investigated. The applied coatings were urethane topcoat, oil stain, natural varnish, cashew and UV-curable epoxy coating. Acoustic properties of coatings inferred from a resonance frequency and a damping measured by FFT analyzer and tan ${\delta}$ measured by DMTA. Acoustic properties from resonance frequency and damping were analyzed. Optimum coating for stringed instruments was determined by viscoelastic properties and acoustic properties of coating.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.54 no.4
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• pp.75-84
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• 2004

Stage costumes perform not only the instrumental but also the expressive functions. The major goal of this study is to develop the functional and aesthetic costume designs for musical players considering the characteristics of instruments. players’ postures. The scope of this study is restricted to the musical costumes for female adult soloists playing the wind and string instruments. This study is composed of theory research, empiricalresearch and manufacturing a real costume. First, theory research contains theory of musical costumes and that of pure musical areas. Concept, characteristics and wearing effects are analysed in theory of musical costumes. Second, designs of instruments and playing postures are analysed in the theory of pure musical areas. Proper and improper designs are compared based on the survey asking the favorite designs of 56 wind and string players. Third, I manufacture a stage costume for a harpist. The conclusions of this study are as follows. First, wind and string players think the functionality of costumes more importantly than the esthetic sense. And there are differences in design preferences for different playing postures. Second, string Players basically use arms, fingers and the upper body. Wind players use fingers more than string players and do abdominal breathing. Third, string players think the design of arms and sleeves because of frequent usage of bow and prefer the design without sleeves. On the contrary, wind players think the silhouette importantly because of standing playing posture. Fourth, players don't think that the accessory is not important and want it so long as it doesn't hinder playing. Fifth, shoes plays more important role than costume in case of playing posture with using pedals and moving legs frequently. Lastly, both wind and string players prefer the design with simplicity and comfort most.