Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for implementing user interfaces and user interface elements for interacting with a virtual instrument. For example, a user interface for a virtual instrument may be presented on a display of a device. The user interface may have any suitable number of strings having a first spacing. Each string may correspond to an associated audio file. User mode input may be received at the user interface. In response to receiving the user mode input, a user interface element (e.g., a corresponding enhanced selection area) may be presented. The presented user interface element may include a subset of the plurality of strings and may have a second spacing that is greater than the first spacing. By utilizing the user interface element, a user is enabled to make more accurate input than conventional techniques allow.

A wirelessly connected ensemble of children's toys with capacitive touch interactivity. The children's toy generally includes a user input overlay panel and one or more capacitive touch sensors. The overlay panel may be formed from a capacitive touch conductive natural organic material such as wood. The toy can be shaped and ornamented to resemble a musical instrument, and configured to play music in response to user input applied to the user input overlay panel and sensed by the capacitive touch sensors. The children's toys are configured for individual and connected play modes. In the connected play mode, the children's toys produce synchronized and/or harmonized sounds and/or melodies.

A method and system for teaching oneself to learn to play a string instrument and master it by analyzing one's real-time hand/finger movement/technique/form, enabling oneself to progress and correct one's own mistakes simultaneously. In one aspect, a system for learning to play a string instrument is provided that includes a simulation instrument that includes a plurality of strings, wherein at least one of the strings includes at least one-touch sensing sensor thereon in communication with at least one processor to receive a signal from the at least one touch-sensing sensor and determine therefrom when and where on the at least one string a user applies pressure to the at least one string.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses may be used to determine fretted positions associated with a stringed instrument. Stringed instruments may be used for interfacing with at least one musical synthesizer interface. A specially-modified stringed musical instrument or system applied to a stringed musical instrument may be used to determine where a guitarist is pressing guitar strings against guitar frets (e.g., stopped positions or fretted positions) without resorting to sending electrical current down the strings or having segmented frets. Special techniques may be used to determine when a pluck of a string occurs. A guitarist may be allowed to play a guitar in a normal manner and control a musical synthesizer or other sound generating device with the same level of predictability that keyboard players have enjoyed for years.

A handheld device for controlling a vibration of a resonant musical member of a musical instrument includes a handheld housing; at least one transducer on the housing that is configured to sense a proximity and/or vibration of a resonant musical member and output an actuating vibratory electromagnetic force based on the vibration of the resonant musical member; and a haptic component on the housing that is configured to output a tactile feedback responsive to a location and/or vibration of a resonant musical member.

A children's toy with touch interactivity. The children's toy generally includes a user input panel and one or more touch sensors. The user input panel may be formed from a natural organic material such as wood. The toy can be shaped and ornamented to resemble a toy tablet with buttons or icons incorporating images of one or more animals and configured to play animal sounds or information about the animals in response to user input applied to the user input panel and sensed by the touch sensors.

The present invention relates to the technical field of guitars. Disclosed are a sound production method for an intelligent error-correcting guitar. The intelligent error-correcting guitar comprises a control module, an audio playback module, a string-pressing sensor group and a string-plucking sensor group. When the intelligent error-correcting guitar operates, the control module is used for receiving a string-pressing combination signal acquired by the string-pressing sensor group and a string-string-plucking source signal acquired by the string-plucking sensor group; When receiving the signal from the string-pressing sensor group, the control module matches the signal with a preset string-pressing combination in the control module, and the control module simultaneously receives the string-string-plucking source signal from the string-plucking sensor group at the same time; And the control module specifies, according to the matched string-pressing combination and the string-string-plucking source signal, a corresponding audio file to be played by means of the audio playback module. By means of the present invention, error-correction sound production can be performed, thereby reducing the difficulty of playing and making the playing of a guitar easy; and the use is simple.