A study of shoulder rest's feet height variation on upper trapezius muscle activity in violinists

• Published in: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) pp. 125 - 129
• Main Authors: Wong, S. F., Lei, I. P.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2015
• Subjects: Electrodes; Electromyography; Foot; Hands; Human factors; Low-pass filters; Muscles; Neck; Recording; shoulder rest; Table lookup; upper trapezius; violin

Violin is an important role in music history. Comfort of holding violin also becomes a concern since this affects the ability and quality of performance. Literature review pointed out that upper trapezius is the related muscle when playing violin and proved that the performance of playing with a sho...