PARTs - Performing Arts Technologies
Technology for Musicians

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Discover our range of innovative products designed to make music making, learning and teaching more rich, individual and interesting!

Our Products

Smart Chinrest

Smart Chinrest with integrated pressure sensors for violin players - PARTs music technology

Explore and quantify the pressure applied to your chinrest.

Smart Fingerboard

Smart Fingerboard sensor system for measuring finger pressure on violin and string instruments - PARTs

Keep an eye on your finger force! Monitor your fingers' forces on the finger board for optimal playing.

Lip Pressure Meter

Lip Pressure Meter for brass instrument players - trumpet and cornet embouchure analysis - PARTs

Find your optimum lip pressure without compromising playing experience. (coming soon).

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About Us

The PART System was invented by Tobias Grosshauser since his music studies in 1995 and has since then been continuously developed with various technology enthusiasts at various research institutions and companies. Our mission is to develop innovative, sustainable products that help people learn their musical instrument in a more explorative, healthy, and individualized way.

We believe that small changes in our daily habits can lead to significant positive impacts on lifelong learning and playing a musical instrument. That's why we focus on developing products that are not only outstanding and innovative but also practical and easy to use in musicians' everyday lives (related research papers on request).

Our team is dedicated to researching and implementing the latest technologies, ensuring that all our products meet the users' needs.

Publications

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Wo wirken welche Kräfte? Eine mit Sensoren ausgestattete Geige ermöglicht Einblicke in die Druckverhältnisse beim Violinspiel
Kuppel, R. & Grosshauser, T.
üben & musizieren, Vol. 4 (2026)
Sensor and Software Technologies for Lip Pressure Measurements in Trumpet and Cornet Playing - from Lab to Classroom
Grosshauser, T., Tröster, G., Thul, A. & Bertsch, M.
Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Maynooth, Ireland, pp. 368-373 (2015)
ENTDECKEN, ERFORSCHEN, VERSTEHEN: Unterstützende Technologien im Instrumentalunterricht
Grosshauser, T.
In: Gesund und motiviert musizieren ein Leben lang, Schott Verlag (2015)
Sensor Based Hand Weight and Pressure Measurements in Trombone Playing
Grosshauser, T., Hufnagl, B., Tröster, G. & Mornell, A.
SMAC Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference (2013)
Further Finger Position and Pressure Sensing Techniques for Strings and Keyboard Instruments
Grosshauser, T. & Tröster, G.
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) (2013)
BRIX - An Easy-to-Use Modular Sensor and Actuator Prototyping Toolkit
Zehe, S., Grosshauser, T. & Hermann, T.
SenAmi, 4th International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence, Lugano, Switzerland (2012)
Sensor Setup for Force and Finger Position and Tilt Measurements for Pianists
Grosshauser, T., Candia, V., Tessendorf, B. & Troester, G.
9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Aalborg University Copenhagen (2012)
Sensor Based Measurements of Musicians' Synchronization Issues
Grosshauser, T., Candia, V., Hildebrand, H. & Troester, G.
Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Ann Arbor, Michigan (2012)
Wearable Sensor Based Real-Time Sonification of Motion and Foot Pressure in Dance Teaching and Training
Grosshauser, T., Blaesing, B., Spieth, C. & Hermann, T.
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (2012)
Adaptive and Reactive Sensor Technology for Musical Instruments
Grosshauser, T., Grossekathoefer, U. & Hermann, T.
In: Art in Motion (Ed. A. Mornell), Peter Lang (2012)
New Sensors and Pattern Recognition Techniques for String Instruments
Grosshauser, T., Großekathöfer, U. & Hermann, T.
International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Sydney, Australia (2010)
Wearable Multi-Modal Sensor System for Embedded Audio-Haptic Feedback
Grosshauser, T. & Hermann, T.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Interactive Sonification (ISon), KTH Stockholm (2010)
Wearable Setup for Gesture and Motion Based Closed Loop Audio-Haptic Interaction
Grosshauser, T. & Hermann, T.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Washington, DC, USA (2010)
Flexible Sensor Setups and Embedded Pattern Recognition for Motion and Gesture Analysis and Learning
Grosshauser, T. & Hermann, T.
International Symposium on Music Acoustics (ViennaTalk) (2010)
Multimodal Closed-Loop Interfaces
Grosshauser, T. & Hermann, T.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Interactive Sonification (ISon), KTH Stockholm (2010)
Wearable Embedded 3D-Audiohaptic Feedback System
Grosshauser, T. & Hermann, T.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Interactive Sonification (ISon), KTH Stockholm (2010)
tacTiles: a low-cost modular tactile sensing system for floor interactions
Anlauff, J., Grosshauser, T. & Hermann, T.
Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI), Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 591-594 (2010)
Augmented Haptics - An Interactive Feedback System for Musicians
Grosshauser, T. & Hermann, T.
Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID), Dresden, Germany, Springer LNCS Vol. 5763, pp. 100-108 (2009)
The Sonified Music Stand - An Interactive Sonification System for Musicians
Grosshauser, T. & Hermann, T.
Proceedings of the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Porto, Portugal, pp. 233-238 (2009)
Modular tacTiles for Sonic Interactions with Smart Environments
Anlauff, J., Hermann, T., Grosshauser, T. & Cooperstock, J.
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Haptic and Auditory Design (HAID), Dresden, Germany, pp. 26-27 (2009)
Wearable Motion and Posture Sensing with Closed Loop Acoustic and Haptic Feedback
Grosshauser, T., Blaesing, B., Hermann, T. & Anlauff, J.
Proceedings of the DANCOS Conference, Bielefeld, Germany (2009)
Low Force Pressure Measurement: Pressure Sensor Matrices for Gesture Analysis, Stiffness Recognition and Augmented Instruments
Grosshauser, T.
8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) (2008)
Seeing the Inaudible: Descriptors Used for Generating Objective and Reproducible Data in Real-Time for Musical Instrument Playing Standard Situations
Grosshauser, T. & Schwarz, D.
Audio Engineering Society Convention (2008)
Everyday Sensor System for Music Instruments: Possibilities and Usage in Daily Musical Instrument Playing, Exercising and Teaching
Grosshauser, T. & Trautner, R.
ELECTROSCIENCE'07: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Applied Electromagnetics, Tenerife, pp. 123-126 (2007)
Pedagogical Experimentation Using the Sound and Gesture Lab
Guédy, F., Leroy, N., Bevilacqua, F., Grosshauser, T. & Schnell, N.
3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content (AXMEDIS), Firenze University Press (2007)