Research and Recommendations

Protein Folding, Creative Evolution, and the Future of the Violin

For more than two centuries, the violin has been both the most cherished and the most paradoxically frozen instrument in Western music. While new technologies have reshaped every corner of our live...

Orality, Writing, and the Fate of Musical Vitality

Orality, Writing, and the Fate of Musical Vitality 1. The Oral Roots of Musical Life Before notation became the axis of European musical culture, music lived primarily as an oral, embodied, and co...

Surface forces and friction between non-polar surfaces coated by temperature-responsive methylcellulose

Abstract Methylcellulose is a heterogeneous polymer that exposes both methyl groups and –OH-groups to the solution, and the solvent quality of water for methylcellulose deceases with increa...

How to Comfortably Hold Your Violin Without Muscle Tension or Pain

Holding your violin or viola in a tight, tense grip will eventually lead to pain in your neck, shoulder, arm, and back The quality of your playing will also suffer as the physical strain impairs yo...

Heredity, Humanism and Violin Making

     Among the varied wonders of hyperconnected tele-society, none has proven so enigmatic as the controversial social media post. So vexing was my recent experience of this kind that my reaction w...

When Should You Upgrade Your Instrument?

From beginner to advanced player, there will come a time in every musician’s life when they decide that an instrument upgrade is in order. There are many reasons why this could be true, and we’ll c...