Acessório para auxílio de instrumentistas cegos no processo de aprendizado do tocar teclado

Abstract

This paper presents the development of an accessory aimed at the visually impaired public that helps them to play the keyboard instrument, with reference to the needs that this audience has when playing this instrument for not having indications on the keys To help them find the desired keys. With the opportunity found, we studied topics that include assistive technology, music as an inclusion tool, Braille musicography, rules for writing in Braille, colors for people with low vision, manufacturing process, material, cycle of Life of the chosen material, among others. The themes studied served to identify the most important needs that should be more relevant to be supplied. This work was divided into 7 stages, which were as follows: 1) It has the introduction, which encompasses the problemization and the justification of the project; 2) contains the general and specific objectives of the project in question; 3) presents the methodology of the project; 4) It contains the theoretical foundation, which contains important points studied for the elaboration of the research; 5) contains the research on the instrument, as well as its keys and the way of finding them without the aid of vision; 6) Development of this project that shows all the steps that were necessary to obtain the final product; 7) Reports the final considerations of the project.