Sheet Music Page Turner

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Sheet Music Page Turner

• Giving Musicians the Hand Freedom They Need

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In this Presentation

• The Problem
• Current coping methods
• Problems with each
• Our Engineering Solution
• Mission Statement
• Customer Needs Results
• Our Product Design
• Prototype Design Sketch
• Explanation of manufacture method

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The Problem

• Inability for musicians to play and turn pages
  simultaneously
• Hand is needed to turn pages while you play, but
  both hands are on your instrument
• Page turns introduce an unwanted inconvenience
  for players

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Musicians Coping Method

• Stop, turn page, continue
• Awkward pause created
• Human Page Turner
• Hard to get Music-Literate Patient Person
• Turner may mess you up
• Sheet music arrangement
• Very limited, most music is still
• continuous during page turns

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The Engineering Solution

• Use a foot pedal to turn your pages
• Convert the force used to press the pedal into a
  force to turn a page
• Utilize principles of motion

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Business Objectives

• Primary Market
• Music reading instrumentalists of all ages and
  all levels from learning students to
  professional performing musicians
• Key Business and Humanitarian Goal
• 2 month development of beta prototype of page
  turning mechanism
• 50 profit margin
• Initial 100 market share
• Improve music learning experience and music
  performance
• Avenues for Creative Design
• Compactness
• Mechanical versus Electrical
• Method of turning pages
• Method for implementing rotation

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Customer Needs

• Sample 19 musicians
• Most Important Needs found
• Reliability
• Low Noise
• Sold Separately
• Tailored for connected sheets
• No large separators
• Turning occur from top
• Average price statement was 27.33

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Our Turner Design

• Affordable
• Minimizes number of components necessary
• Mechanical
• Converts motion to create page turns rotation
• Limitless Page Turns
• Uses magnetic attraction to act as force on paper

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Design Sketch
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Exploded View