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High precision frequency estimation for harpsichord tuning classification

Tidhar, D., Mauch, M. & Dixon, S. (2010). High precision frequency estimation for harpsichord tuning classification. In: ICASSP. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 14-03-2010 - 19-03-2010, Dallas, USA. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5496213

Abstract

We present a novel music signal processing task of classifying the tuning of a harpsichord from audio recordings of standard musical works. We report the results of a classification experiment involving six different temperaments, using real harpsichord recordings as well as synthesised audio data. We introduce the concept of conservative transcription, and show that existing high-precision pitch estimation techniques are sufficient for our task if combined with conservative transcription. In particular, using the CQIFFT algorithm with conservative transcription and removal of short duration notes, we are able to distinguish between 6 different temperaments of harpsichord recordings with 96% accuracy (100% for synthetic data).

Publication Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information: © 2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Publisher Keywords: Music, Pitch Estimation, Temperament
Subjects: M Music and Books on Music
Departments: School of Communication & Creativity > Performing Arts > Music
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