MusicSynth: An Automated Pipeline for Generating Violin Fingerboard Animations from Sheet Music Using Optical Music Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17181v1
• Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 22:32:26 GMT
• Title: MusicSynth: An Automated Pipeline for Generating Violin Fingerboard Animations from Sheet Music Using Optical Music Recognition
• Abstract summary: Music Synth is an open-source web tool that turns a sheet music image into a violin fingerboard tutorial.<n>The system automatically produces a video showing a violin fingerboard with each note highlighted at the right moment.<n>The only part built from scratch is a library that maps each musical note and finger position on the violin.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Learning the violin is harder than it looks. Unlike piano keys or guitar frets, the violin neck has no markings at all, so a beginner cannot tell by looking where to place each finger. MusicSynth is an open-source web tool that tries to fix that: user uploads a photo of any violin sheet music (or a digital score file), and the system automatically produces a video showing a violin fingerboard with each note highlighted at the right moment -- no software to install, no manual note entry required. The system connects three existing open-source tools into one pipeline: an optical music recognition (OMR) library reads the notes from the uploaded image, a MusicXML parser extracts timing information from digital scores, and a video renderer draws the fingerboard frame by frame. The only part built from scratch is the lookup table that maps each musical note to a string and finger position on the violin. Tested across 110 public-domain violin scores, MusicSynth correctly identified 91.2\,\% of notes in clean printed music and assigned the right finger position 99.1\,\% of the time when given a digital score file. To the author's knowledge, no freely available tool currently turns a sheet music image into an animated violin fingerboard tutorial automatically and in a single browser-based step.

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