Université de Fribourg

Coordination of bowing and fingering in violin playing

Baader, Andreas P. ; Kazennikov, Oleg ; Wiesendanger, Mario

In: Cognitive Brain Research, 2005, vol. 23(2-3), p. 436

Playing string instruments implies motor skills including asymmetrical interlimb coordination. How special is musical skill as compared to other bimanually coordinated, non-musical skillful performances? We succeeded for the first time to measure quantitatively bimanual coordination in violinists playing repeatedly a simple tone sequence. A motion analysis system was used to record finger and bow...