The Player Guitar

Project Home	The Player Guitar Team Members: Joshua Libby, CSE '07 Stephen Monska, CSE '07 Simon Leung, CSE '07 Robert Williams, CSE '07 Professor T. Baird Soules: Professor Soules Project Summary The Player Guitar is a project for SDP ‘07 to have a self-playing slide-fretted guitar, which responds to MIDI input as processed by the MIDI Guitar Tablature from SDP ‘04. The guitar’s physical operation is done with stepper motors driving a slide on a gilmer belt to fret a note, with solenoids to strum and then silence the note when it is done. The note is selected by a MIDI compatible device (MIDI keyboard, electric piano, computer program, etc) and passed to the MIDI Guitar Tablature, which decides where on what string the note should be played and then is physically played in real life in real time by the Player Guitar.
Statement of the Problem
Requirements Specification
System Block Diagram
Draft System Specification
Preliminary Design Review (PDR) Presentation Slides
Mid-course Design Review (MDR) Specification
MDR Presentation Slides
Team Poster
UMassAmherst
College of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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