(Times of Israel) David Shamah - Chinese Internet giant Baidu on Tuesday announced it was investing $5 million in Israeli start-up Tonara, which makes interactive apps to help prospective musicians learn how to play. Baidu is China's biggest web services firm and has plenty of uses for Tonara's technology, said Peter Fang of Baidu. Tonara is a digitized sheet music platform which follows music as it is being played, identifies notes, and shows the sheet music and specific notes (currently, it works with piano, violin, cello and flute). The app changes pages in the sheet music score as needed, speeds up or slows down the display in response to the way a piece is played, accounts for mistakes (highlighting a missed note) - all automatically, even under noisy conditions. Tonara also developed an app called Wolfie to help piano students practice effectively. The apps fit right in with Baidu services which provide instruction and tutorials in a wide range of areas. Tonara CEO Guy Bauman said, "Tonara's mission is to redefine the way music is taught, learned and practiced around the world by bringing music education into the digital age....We're thrilled to cooperate with Baidu in reaching out to the Chinese audience."
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