| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 資訊工程研究所 === 99 === Early exposure to music can help children promote their language development, enhance their creative ability, and improve their physical coordination capability. Therefore, a lot of musical toys (e.g., toy guitars, toy drums and percussion, toy keyboards and pianos, toy wind instruments, toy band sets) which can provide a good introduction to musical instruments and give children hours of entertainment are commercially available on the market.
With modern electronics and software, the functionalities of music instrument toys can be improved. In this paper, we present an electronic trombone-like toy for children who try to experience playing a trombone or pretend to play a trombone at the professional level as a truly professional trombonist does. We tried to extend the traditional trombone by providing tutorial and entertaining elements via the use of IR sensors, a wireless transmission
module, a microprocessor, a microphone and a computing device (e.g., PC) with a MIDI software application which provide three playing modes: tutorial mode、play mode and performance entertainment mode. The design of the electronic
trombone aimed to achieve several goals. First of all, we wanted to provide an easy and entertaining approach to learning to play a trombone-like instrument.
Secondly, we tried to make the entry level of playing a trombone for children as low as possible. Thirdly, we hope to preserve as much of the physical interactions needed for playing an actual trombone as possible while one plays the electronic trombone. Experiments were designed to evaluate the proposed electronic trombone.
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