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Convention Paper

A Piano Sound Database for Testing Automatic Transcription Methods

Authors: Ortiz-Berenguer, Luis; Blanco-Martin, Elena; Alvarez-Fernandez, Alberto; Blas-Moncalvillo, Jose A.; Casajus-Quiros, Francisco J.

AES Convention 125 · Paper 7538 · October 2008

Abstract

A piano sound database, called ‘PianoUPM’, is presented. It is intended to help the researching community in developing and testing

transcription methods. A practical database needs to contain notes and chords played through the full piano

range and it needs to be recorded from acoustic pianos rather than synthesized ones. The presented piano sound database

includes the recording of 13 pianos from different manufacturers. There are both upright and grand pianos. The

recordings include the eighty-eight notes and eight different chords played both in legato and staccato styles. It

also includes some notes of every octave played with four different forces to analyze the nonlinear behavior. This

work has been supported by the Spanish National Project TEC2006-13067-C03-01/TCM.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 125
AES Convention
125
Paper number
7538
Publication date
October 6, 2008
Session subject
Audio Content Management
Affiliation
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper