A Study on Pitch Recognition for Trumpet

Abstract

Pitch recognition is the ability to identify a pitch from a sound. This research focuses on recognizing the pitch of a trumpet much like the ability of a skilled human being capable of recognizing an exact pitch or note.  A software application using Java language is developed in order to explore on how to extract a pitch of a sounding trumpet and able to recognize the pitch played. Two experiments have been carried out in this study, one was to find out trumpet recognition rate as performed by novice and experienced players; and second, it was tested if it can and only can recognized pitch aside from other musical instruments. The first experiment generates a pitch recognition rate of 78%, while the second generates pitch recognition rate of only 13%.