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Evaluating the Experiential Quality of Musical Instruments

A Psychometric Approach

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Gian-Marco Schmid

    1. Abteilung für Allgemeine Psychologie und Methodologie, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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  • Study in Psychology
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Gian-Marco Schmid
    Pages 1-3

  3. Related work

    • Gian-Marco Schmid
    Pages 5-8

  4. Research goals and motivation

    • Gian-Marco Schmid
    Pages 9-9

  5. Methodological approach

    • Gian-Marco Schmid
    Pages 11-11

  6. Study 1: Interviews with musicians and item generation

    • Gian-Marco Schmid
    Pages 13-17

  7. Study 2: Refinement and reduction of the item pool

    • Gian-Marco Schmid
    Pages 19-22

  8. Study 3: Exploratory Factor Analysis

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    Pages 23-30

  9. General Discussion

    • Gian-Marco Schmid
    Pages 31-36

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 37-42
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Abteilung für Allgemeine Psychologie und Methodologie, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Gian-Marco Schmid

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.

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