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Searching for objective and subjective parameters is very important in automatic classification of multimedia databases containing recordings of musical instruments sounds. This paper describes these parameters and methods of obtaining them for a violin sound. The objective parameters are violin modes with their properties: frequency and mutual energy factor. The subjective parameter is evaluation of sound quality done by experts. Based on violin modes parameters, expert judgements and harmony perception, a sound quality classifier was created. The estimated value of sound quality evaluation is consistent with expert judgements for 75.5% of instruments from AMATI multimedia database containing recordings of violins from 10th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Maker Competition.
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Wrzeciono, P., Marasek, K. (2010). Violin Sound Quality: Expert Judgements and Objective Measurements. In: Raś, Z.W., Wieczorkowska, A.A. (eds) Advances in Music Information Retrieval. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 274. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11674-2_11
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