How To Play Latch On Piano

In this tutorial we will learn how simple and easy it is to Play Melody on Piezo Buzzer or Speaker using the Arduino tone function. At the end of this tutorial you will be able to play some famous tones of,.

You will also learn how to play any piece of piano music with Arduino. Check the Video at the end.Hardware Required:.

Arduino (any version – UNO is used here). Piezo Speaker/Buzzer or any other 8ohm speaker. Breadboard. Connecting Wires. Push buttons. 1k resistor (optional)Understanding the Tone function of Arduino:Before we can understand how a tone works we should know how a Piezo buzzer works. We might have learnt about Piezo crystals in our school, it is nothing but a crystal which converts mechanical vibrations into electricity or vice versa.

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Here we apply a variable current (frequency) for which the crystal vibrates thus producing sound. Hence in order to make the Piezo buzzer to make some noise we have to make the Piezo electric crystal to vibrate, the pitch and tone of noise depends on how fast the crystal vibrates. Hence the tone and pitch can be controlled by varying the frequency of the current.Okay, so how do we get a variable frequency from Arduino?

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This is where the comes in. The tone can generate a particular frequency on a specific pin. The time duration can also be mentioned if required. The syntax for tone is Syntaxtone(pin, frequency)tone(pin, frequency, duration)Parameterspin: the pin on which to generate the tonefrequency: the frequency of the tone in hertz - unsigned intduration: the duration of the tone in milliseconds (optional) - unsigned longThe values of pin can be any of your digital pin. I have used pin number 8 here.

The frequency that can be generated depends on the size of the timer in your Arduino board. For UNO and most other common boards the minimum frequency that can be produced is 31Hz and the maximum frequency that can be produced is 65535Hz. However we humans can hear only frequencies between 2000Hz and 5000 Hz.The pitches.h header file:Now, we know how to produce some noise using the arduino tone function. But, how do we know what kind of tone will be generated for each frequency?Arduino have given us a note table which equates each frequency to a specific musical note type. This note table was originally written by Brett Hagman, on whose work the tone command was based.

We will use this note table to play our themes. Arduino Program Explanation:Once you have understood the concept, the Arduino program is pretty straight forward.

How To Play Latch On Piano

The complete code is given at the end of the tutorial. If you are not familiar with adding header files you can from here and directly upload it to your Arduino.The above two are the header files that have to be added. “pitches.h” is used to equate each musical note to a particular frequency and “themes.h” contains the note value and note duration of all the four tones.#include 'pitches.h'#include 'themes.h'A function is created to play each tone when required. Here when the function PlayPirates is called the “He is a Pirate” tone will be played. This function consists of the tone function which produces the frequency at pin number 8. The noTone(8) is called to stop the music once it’s played. If you want to play your own tone, change the Piratesnote and Piratesduration to the new note and duration values that you have saved in “themes.h” value.

Hi thereFirstly, thank you for the thorough tutorial! The way you broke down the steps really helped me understand what was going on (well, a little more than I did before, which isn't much to be honest).My questions are this:Is there a way to increase the sound.

I am using the correct resistors but my sound if very soft. If I remove the resistor, I can hear the Pziezo really struggles.Secondly, is there a way to have one button (button pin 2) cycle through songs being played.

I press the button, the first song plays. I press it again, the second song, third time, the 3rd song and so on.

Firstly, thank you for the thorough tutorial! The way you broke down the steps really helped me understand what was going on (well, a little more than I did before, which isn't much to be honest).Thank you for your words, well yes I dint wanna pump too much of information as it might get boring to read.Is there a way to increase the sound. I am using the correct resistors but my sound if very soft. If I remove the resistor, I can hear the Pziezo really struggles.Don't remove the resistor just decrease the value of it.

If you want much better sound you should try an audio amplifier circuit, which might be a bit of overkill but if you are into learning things then its worth giving a shot.Secondly, is there a way to have one button (button pin 2) cycle through songs being played. I press the button, the first song plays.

I press it again, the second song, third time, the 3rd song and so on.Yes, it is possible but not with the digital pin. You have to use an analog pin and form a potential divider with different values of resistors with each switch, this way when each switch is pressed a different voltage will be supplied to the analog pin using which we can detect which button was pressed.