Engineering students’ device helps pianist expand repertoire
From: Brownsville Herald - 04/01/2013
By: Melissa Montoya

For more than two years, a group of engineering students at the University of
Texas at Brownsville worked to construct a device that would allow senior
student Juan Torres to use the pedals on the piano.

The device pushes down on the damper pedal, the right-most of a piano’s three
pedals, whenever Torres bites down on a switch that wirelessly transmits to
the apparatus. The bite switch is attached to headphones that Torres wears
throughout the performance.

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Submitted by Drew Nelson