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Tuning or training device

The patent describes a method and apparatus for quantifying the tuning of a musical membranophone - which includes popular and classical drums as well as many other percussion instruments. The method includes consideration of the instrument's fundamental frequency, the consistency of overtone frequencies, as well as attack and decay times. The apparatus can be take many forms, including bespoke studio hardware, a handheld device or a software only application.

It is a device for tuning a percussion instrument or training a voice has a processor which is adapted to receive an electronic signal corresponding to an acoustic impulse produced by the percussion instrument or voice. The processor is further adapted to analyse the signal to generate one or more characteristics of the signal. The device also has a display connected to the processor which displays the generated characteristics. The one or more characteristics include any one or any combination of a time-domain characteristic of the signal, a plurality of fundamental and/or harmonic frequencies of the signal, and a frequency spectrum of the signal.