Patent ID: 7518057
Filing Date: 2009-04-14
Classification: G09B,G10H

Abstract:
1. A computing system for automatically determining hand and/or fingering positioning information for performing a musical composition by a robotic device on at least one musical instrument, comprising: a. a memory, b. an input device for inputting the musical composition into the computing system, c. a processor for automatically (i) identifying all strokes and stroke groups in the input musical composition, wherein a stroke is a note or a chord, and wherein a stroke group for each instrument comprises sequential strokes of the musical composition that can be played at one positional location on that instrument, (ii) selecting a stroke group to be used to determine the hand and/or fingering information for each stroke to be performed on each instrument, and (iii) using the selected stroke groups to determine the hand and/or fingering positioning information for playing the strokes in the musical composition on each musical instrument, and d. an output device for outputting the hand and/or fingering positioning information for performance of the musical composition by a robotic device on at least one musical instrument, wherein the at least one musical instrument is selected from the group consisting of a stringed instrument, a woodwind instrument, a brass instrument, a keyboard instrument, and a percussion instrument.