Evaluating the Experiential Quality of Musical Instruments : A Psychometric Approach

Schmid, Gian-marco; Opwis, Klaus (INT); Tuch, Alexandre (INT)

ISBN 10: 3658184191 / ISBN 13: 9783658184193

Published by Springer, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evaluating the Experiential Quality of Musical Instruments : A Psychometric Approach
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3658184191
• ISBN 13: 9783658184193
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Gian-Marco Schmid investigates how musicians perceive the experiential quality of musical instruments using a bottom-up psychometric questionnaire development process and finds that there are three main factors on which musicians base their evaluation of musical instruments: (1) experienced freedom & possibilities, (2) perceived control & comfort and (3) perceived stability, sound quality & aesthetics. This structure is similar to research regarding the conceptualization of violin quality. It is therefore suggested that musicians who use different instruments tend to have an analogical concept of instrument quality.

About the Author

Gian-Marco Schmid focuses his research on the interdisciplinary intersection between Music and Human-Computer Interaction. His main research interests reach from Psychometrics to Psychophysics.