In this context, the following work reflects on possible educational impacts of the research which investigate different audiences’ perceptions regarding audios recorded by drummers’ performances and by MIDI tools. Due to the growing expansion of computers’ storage and processing capacities, it has also been possible to increase the quality and specificity of sample libraries.
Since 1983, with the release of the MIDI protocol, new resources have been developed for musical editing, composition, arrangement and performance. We demonstrate that this chordophone introduces expressivity at a level not achieved before, is modular yet portable, is mechanically quiet and can play at a speed beyond that of even the best human player. This paper concludes with the presentation of the authors’ final design as an integration of the presented ideas and design techniques. Therefore, rather than presenting a single chordophone development, this paper provides a multitude of design options providing an interested reader with the background and suggestions to create their own bespoke design. Rather, the competing factors of speed, precision, reliability, portability, expressiveness and timbral variation can be given different weightings and result in different designs. In the same manner that there is not one best way to play a guitar and no best guitar design, so too is there no “best” chordophone design. The challenge is to produce a mechatronic device capable of speedy and reliable note selection, string actuation, string damping and expressiveness. This paper investigates the design considerations and development of the stringed chordophone and specifically the guitar. However, factors such as the ubiquitous acceptance of the microcontroller led to a resurgent interest in this field. Initially peaking around the Industrial Revolution, traditional automated musical production devices went into a steep decline with the arrival of the phonograph. As technology developed, so too did the desire for this sound production to become automated. Since the earliest times, humans have sought the ability to produce rhythms and tones using devices external to the human body.
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