This article identifies ten fragments, used as reinforcements in the sounding boxes of three instruments made by Antonio Stradivari (Cremona, ca. 1648–1737), which are now kept Ashmolean Museum Oxford (the ‘Cipriani Potter’ violin, 1683, and ‘Hill’ guitar, 1688) musée de la Musique Paris ‘Vuillaume’ guitar). The fragments appear to come from a single book hours, Italy no later than mid-fifteent...

The carbon material, GUITAR (pseudo-graphite from the University of Idaho thermolyzed asphalt reaction) can be doped with nitrogen in two prevalent forms. In a previous study N(py)-GUITAR had predominance pyridinic and pyrrolic moieties no graphitic nitrogen. this N(g)-GUITAR contains 9.7 % N atomic abundance, that fraction consisting 72.3 graphitic, 23.7 pyridinic, 0 materials allow for examin...

Abstract We have collected a new deep Chandra X-Ray Observatory exposure of PSR B2224+65 and the “Guitar Nebula,” mapping complex X-ray structure. This is accompanied by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) H α image head Guitar. Comparing HST structures in four epochs over 25 yr, we constrain evolution TeV particles that light up filament. Cross-field diffusion appears to be enhanced, likely injected ...

This paper describes a system which uses the output from headtracking and gesture recognition software to drive a parameterized guitar effects synthesizer in real-time.

The development and application of new optical, piezoelectric and variable reluctance transducers is described for polyphonic stringed instruments especially the guitar.

The focus of this work is in modeling the unique sound and the playing practices of the acoustic guitar. The results can be applied to other plucked string instruments too. A new extended notation package is used to produce expressive control information. This tool allows the user to add to the input score instrumental expressions and tempo functions. The system includes also a rule formalism t...

In this paper, we present our research on the acquisition of gesture information for the study of the expressiveness in guitar performances. For that purpose, we design a sensor system which is able to gather the movements from left hand fingers. Our effort is focused on a design that is (1) non-intrusive to the performer and (2) able to detect from strong movements of the left hand to subtle m...

This paper reports initial findings from a randomized controlled trial conducted on 9 subjects to investigate the effect of two mental training programs (a mindfulness meditation and learning to play a guitar) on their BCI performance. After 4 weeks of intervention, results show that subjects who had undergone a program of mindfulness meditation improved their BCI performance scores significant...

This is a research summary of Virtuosity in Computational Performance, addressing the question: How can a computer, as judged by a human audience, demonstrate virtuosity in computational performances with a physical model of a bass guitar? The proposed plan for this research is to develop a computational performance system which uses case-based reasoning and reflection to produce virtuosic perf...

The analysis of musical interpretation, an important research topic in Computer Music, is usually focused on the study of musical dimensions like harmony and melody for piano music. Despite its obvious importance in expressive performance, rhythm is somewhat neglected as well as guitar music. This paper introduces a novel algorithm for the automatic discovery of right hand fingering in guitar a...