---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: audio
    dtype:
      audio:
        sampling_rate: 16000
  - name: sound
    dtype: string
  - name: label
    dtype:
      class_label:
        names:
          '0': PearlRiver
          '1': YoungChang
          '2': Steinway-T
          '3': Hsinghai
          '4': Kawai
          '5': Steinway
          '6': Kawai-G
          '7': Yamaha
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 474511713
    num_examples: 534
  - name: validation
    num_bytes: 52598078
    num_examples: 67
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 52137163
    num_examples: 67
  download_size: 526201799
  dataset_size: 579246954
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: validation
    path: data/validation-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
task_categories:
- audio-classification
tags:
- audio
- multiclass
---

# Pianos Sound Quality Dataset

This version of dataset comprises seven models of pianos: 

 - Kawai upright piano
 - Kawai grand piano
 - Young Change upright piano
 - Hsinghai upright piano
 - Grand Theatre Steinway piano
 - Steinway grand piano
 - Pearl River upright piano.

Note: the paper (Zhou et al., 2023) only uses the first 7 piano classes in the dataset, its future work has finished the 8-class evaluation.

## License

```
MIT License

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```

## Citations

```bibtex
@article{zhou2023holistic,
  title={A Holistic Evaluation of Piano Sound Quality},
  author={Zhou, Monan and Wu, Shangda and Ji, Shaohua and Li, Zijin and Li, Wei},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.04722},
  year={2023}
}
```

```
@dataset{zhaorui_liu_2021_5676893,
  author= {Monan Zhou, Shenyang Xu, Zhaorui Liu, Zhaowen Wang, Feng Yu, Wei Li and Baoqiang Han},
  title={CCMusic: an Open and Diverse Database for Chinese and General Music Information Retrieval Research},
  month={mar},
  year={2024},
  publisher={HuggingFace},
  version={1.2},
  url={https://huggingface.co/ccmusic-database}
}
```