The overall framework of this article concerns the social stabilization of linguistic meaning in the no-man’s land between pragmatics and semantics. I show how some fundamental dimensions – power, initiative, anticipation, all related to expectations – contribute to this stabilization. The result of this empirical investigation of an easy expert–novice instruction task – how to change violin st...

Left ventricular false tendons are thin, fibromuscular structures which traverse the left ventricular cavity. They are thought to be intracavitary radiations of the bundle of His. Usually these tendons span between the interventricular septum and the lateral wall or a papillary muscle. They have been known to be a source of innocent and musical murmurs.In this case report a peculiar left ventri...

She was quiet awhile and then said, Many a night when I was little, alone in that cabin, I wished I could take that fiddle of his up to the jump-off and pitch it and let the wind fly it away. In my mind I'd just watch it go till it was just a speck , and then I'd think about the sweet sound it would make breaking to pieces on the river rocks way down below. from Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier.1

The demonstration of a series of properly weighted and balanced Bluetooth sensor bows for violin, viola, cello and bass.

We present a system for the animation of human hand that plays violin. Neural network controls the hand movement. We make use of an optimization method to generate the examples for the neural network training. The musical decision of which finger to use is automatically made by best first search. We will show that the movements of violinist’s hands are physically and musically feasible, and tha...

The modal frequencies and bending mode shapes of a freely supported tapered violin bow are investigated by finite element analysis and direct measurement, with and without tensioned bow hair. Such computations are used with analytic models to model the admittance presented to the stretched bow hairs at the ends of the bow and to the string at the point of contact with the bow. Finite element co...

This research investigates the potential for vibrotactile feedback to enhance motor learning in the context of playing the violin. A prototype has been built which delivers vibrotactile feedback to the arms to indicate to a novice player how to correctly hold the violin and how to bow in a straight manner. This prototype was tested in a pilot user study with four complete beginners. Observation...

The violin is one of the most beautiful but also one of the most difficult musical instruments for a beginner. This paper presents an on-going work about a new augmented reality system for training how to play violin. We propose to help the players by virtually guiding the movement of the bow and the correct position of their fingers for pressing the strings. Our system also recognizes the musi...