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Mobile Clavier: new music keyboard for flexible key transpose

Published: 06 June 2007 Publication History

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Musical performers need to show off their virtuosity for selfexpression and communicate with other people. Therefore, they are prepared to perform at any time and anywhere. However, a musical keyboard of 88 keys is too large and too heavy to carry around. When a portable keyboard that is suitable for carrying around is played over a wide range, the notes being played frequently cause the diapason of the keyboard to protrude. It is common to use Key Transpose in conventional portable keyboards, which shifts the diapason of the keyboard. However, this function creates several problems such as the feeling of discomfort from the misalignment between the keying positions and their output sounds. Therefore, the goal of our study is to construct Mobile Clavier, which enables the diapason to be changed smoothly. Mobile Clavier resolves the problems with Key Transpose by having black keys inserted between any two side-by-side white keys. This paper also discusses how effective Mobile Clavier was in an experiment conducted using professional pianists. We can play music at any time and anywhere with Mobile Clavier.

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    NIME '07: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
    June 2007
    484 pages
    ISBN:9781450378376
    DOI:10.1145/1279740
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    • Carol Parkinson,
    • Eric Singer
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    Published: 06 June 2007

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    1. additional black keys
    2. diapason change
    3. portable keyboard

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