In the application of musical acoustics and speech sound, almost any type of Nigerian drum is used for communication. The agreeable successions of tones unlimited to interesting beat-patterns, pitch and rhythms uses shifted accents, non-accented rhythms, syncopations etc. On the daily basis of a watermelon harvesting and trade point, musical acoustics and speech sounds are applied passively in detecting and determining a ripen watermelon; the application of the Nigerian drum beat-pattern, pitch and intonation is an efficient procedure for ripeness detection of watermelon. Depending on how the pitches are lowered or accented, the melon ripeness is detected. The pitch-pattern analysis can be used to measure, determine and correlate the internal ripeness and quality of watermelon with pitch from a Nigerian drum. This method allows identification at a 60.0 % level of efficiency. Hence, the proposed method can reliably detect watermelon ripeness.
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Non-destructive correlation of Nigerian drum beat-pattern and pitch to detect a ripen watermelon Free
Stephen G. Onwubiko;
Stephen G. Onwubiko
Music, Univ. of Nigeria, Nsukka Enugu State, Enugu, Nsukka 234042, Nigeria, [email protected]
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Tracianne B. Neilsen
Tracianne B. Neilsen
Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT
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Stephen G. Onwubiko
Tracianne B. Neilsen
Music, Univ. of Nigeria, Nsukka Enugu State, Enugu, Nsukka 234042, Nigeria, [email protected]
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 145, 1708 (2019)
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Stephen G. Onwubiko, Tracianne B. Neilsen; Non-destructive correlation of Nigerian drum beat-pattern and pitch to detect a ripen watermelon. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 March 2019; 145 (3_Supplement): 1708. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5101264
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