  It is often required to extract the sound of an objective instrument played
in concert with other instruments. Microphone array is one of the effective
ways to enhance a sound from a specific direction. However it is not effective
in an echoic room such as concert hall. The pickup microphone attached on the
specific musical instrument is often employed to obtain the sound exclusively
from other instrumental sounds. The obtained timbre differ from the one we hear
at the usual listening position. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new
method of sound separation that utilizes the piezoelectric device attached on
the body of the instrument. The signal from the attached device has a different
spectrum from the sound heard by the audience but has the same frequency
components as the instrumental sound. Our idea is to use the device signal as a
modifier of the sound focusing filter applied to the microphone sound at the
listening position. The proposed method firstly estimates the frequency
components of the signal from the piezoelectric device. The frequency
characteristics for filtering the microphone sound are changed so that it pass
the estimated frequency components. Thus we can extractthe target sound without
distortion. The proposed method is a sort of dynamic sparseness approach. It
was found that SNR is improved by 8.7dB through the experiments.
