ViolinTalk: Violin Robots as Internet of Things Devices by Hsing-Hsin Huang, Yi-Bing Lin

“…In recent years, the application of intelligent robots in the field of music has gradually emerged. Among string instruments, the violin stands as an unparalleled musical marvel, representing the soprano voice. …”
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Musculoskeletal problems among string instrumentalists in South Africa by Adedayo T. Ajidahun, Witness Mudzi, Wendy-Ann Wood, Hellen Myezwa

“…Background: Musicians who play string instruments are affected more by musculoskeletal injuries when compared to other instrument playing groups. …”
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Microtonality and neutral tone in contemporary zheng performance: Towards an expanded interpretive framework by Zhang Zhan, Lee Chie Tsang Isaiah, Chong Huey Ching

“…Zheng is a traditional Chinese plucked stringed instrument that was prevalent in the State of Qin (present Shaanxi) during the Warring States period.Through the change of time, the performance practice of Zheng gradually adapted to the modern innovations following the creativity of contemporary music composers including the application of microtonality from the development of Western contemporary music. …”
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Patrilineal Constraints and Female Creativity: Case on Gitar Tunggal Lampung by Riyan Hidayatullah, Chamil Arkhasa Nikko Mazlan

“…Women are prohibited from playing stringed instruments in public or in the local music industry. …”
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“Beautiful Tone, Beautiful Heart?” Shinichi Suzuki's Pedagogy of Sound and Self by Lindsay J. Wright

“…Among performers and pedagogues of string instruments, “tone” is a term summoned often and valued deeply, yet seldom defined. …”
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More than an Afterimage: Music as Holocaust Spatial Representation and Legacy by Kellie D. Brown

“…This uniqueness derives from music’s dual temporal and physical essence as it is represented by written scores that serve as a blueprint, as sonic events that fill both time and space, and as musical instruments that operate as conduits for both. String instruments, in particular, have occupied a vital place in Jewish culture and, consequently, during the Holocaust. …”
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Virumaa rahvapillid by Igor Tõnurist

“…Folk music instruments in Virumaa can be divided by their sound-making mode into wind instruments (e.g. clarinet-type and trumpet-type aerophones), string instruments (chordophones), idiophones, and membranophones. …”
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Blending the secular and sacred: instrumental textures in seventeenth-century worship by Kimberly Beck

“…In the seventeenth century composers employed traditionally secular instrumentations, such as that of the solo violin or ensembles of brass or string instruments, in concerted settings of liturgical texts. …”
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Sobre o desuso e o ressurgimento da viola pomposa About the viola pomposa revival by Zoltan Paulinyi

“…<br>The viola pomposa is a 5-stringed instrument of baroque origin similar to the traditional orchestral viola, with an additional high E string. …”
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Articulated coordination of the right arm underlies control of bow parameters and quick bow reversals in skilled cello bowing by Julius eVerrel, Marjorie Hines Woollacott, Ulman eLindenberger

“…Stringed instrument bowing is a complex coordinative motor skill acquired though years of intense practice. …”
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Chinese Prayer Chant to the Goddess of Fertility by Natalya V. Zakharova, Vladimir N. Klyaus, Liudmila P. Makhova

“…The article examines the prayer chant to the Goddess of Fertility performed by a blind singer and accompanied by the stringed instrument banghu and foot castanets in the temple of the Spirit of the Tanshan Dong Yue mountain, in Puxian county Shangxi province of the Republic of China. …”
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Using Hybrid Models for Action Correction in Instrument Learning Based on AI by Avirmed Enkhbat, Timothy K. Shih, Munkhjargal Gochoo, Pimpa Cheewaprakobkit, Wisnu Aditya, Thai Duy Quy, Hsinchih Lin, Yu-Ting Lin

“…This system conducts experiments to assess performance of playing the erhu, the most popular traditional stringed instrument in East Asia. Mastering the erhu poses a challenge, as players often struggle to enhance their skills due to incorrect techniques and a lack of guidance, resulting in limited progress. …”
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Research into Dendro-Acoustic Properties of Intro-duced Clones’ Wood as Material for Manufacturing Musical Instruments by Vladimir Ilyich Fedyukov, Ekaterina Yurevna Saldaeva, Maria Sergeyevna Chernova, Vasilii Yuryevich Chernov

“…Consequently, the acoustic role of maple wood in the back plates of the violin and other string instruments is completely different than that of the top plate made from the resonant material of coniferous species. …”
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Reversible and irreversible effects of mild thermal treatment on the properties of wood used for making musical instruments: comparing mulberry to spruce by Karami E, Bremaud I, Bardet S, Almeras T, Guibal D, Langbour P, Pourtahmasi K, Gril J

“…Thermal treatment was applied on white mulberry (Morus alba L.), a dominant species for making musical instruments from middle-East to Far-East, to investigate the effects on the vibro-mechanical and physical properties of this wood, and the results compared to previously published data on spruce (Picea abies Karst.) as a reference for the soundboard of Western string instruments. Thermal treatment (TT) at 150 °C and 0% of relative humidity was applied to five analogous groups of specimens with five different durations (2.5, 8, 24, 72, 261 hours). …”
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A Longitudinal Study of Physical and Mental Health and Health-Related Attitudes Among Music Students: Potentials and Challenges for University Health Promotion Programs by Magdalena Rosset, Eva Baumann, Eckart Altenmüller

“…Compared to other body regions, pain in shoulders/back is most prevalent in first-year students, especially in those playing string instruments. Performance majors reported better knowledge about health risks and protective measures for musicians, better coping abilities, and practiced more than music education majors. …”
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Instrumen Musik Barat dan Gamelan Jawa dalam Iringan Tari Keraton Yogyakarta by R.M. Surtihadi

“…Some Western musicalinstruments like, drums (percussion sections), strings instruments (string sections),woodwind instruments (woodwind sections) and brass (brass sections) are used in thosedances shows. …”
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De organografía, organología y etnolaudería como propuesta para el estudio de los instrumentos musicales tradicionales by Víctor Hernández Vaca

“…In this article, a review of the traditional musical instruments studies in Mexico is presented in order to expose my own methodological proposal —different from organology and organography— for the study of the instrument from an approach called “ethnolaudery,”which proposes the study of musical instruments based on traditions and from a processual perspective; looking at musical instruments as a piece of culture and inside specific cultures; considering the diverse contexts of production (according the corporal, material, and symbolic dimensions); and focusing on the specialized crafters of string instruments: violeros, vigoleros, lauderos, guitarreros, ebanistas, setimuriecha, guitarrachiketl, kuachichiketl, p´as b´ometik, etc.…”
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“Atlas der gesamten Musik und aller angrenzenden Gebiete”: Austrian Stereotypes, Music, and Material Agency as a Relational Model in Georg Nussbaumer’s Concert Installations by Christa Brüstle

“…This is most evident in Nussbaumer’s works Schönes Bildnis mit Mozarterwärmung (2004–06) for a singer and video projection; winter 42/43 (2001) for a small drum, toy tanks, and a Schubert lied recording; Eine Winterreise (2016) with a grand piano, ice, and volcanic ash; Die schönsten Gipfel der Alpen (2007) with hanging tuning forks; and LAWINE, WALD UND STUBENMUSI (2009) for river stones, bells, branches, and solar-powered string instruments. Therefore, these concert installations will be taken as examples for discussing the above-mentioned questions and considering related subjects. …”
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