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Motor coordination in santūr players: Implications for santūr education

English (英語)

神戸大学大学院人間発達環境学研究科研究紀要

18(1)

1-14

神戸大学大学院人間発達環境学研究科

2024-09-30

The present study provides a detailed analysis of upper-limb motor coordination in two professional santūr (an Iranian musical instrument) players using a motion capture system and a high-speed camera, whose data have not been previously available in the scientifi c as well as instructional literature. We focused on the level of organization of muscular-articular components and analyzed the tempo-dependent modulation of motor coordination of the dominant arm and fingers controlling the movement of the mallet involved in playing a musical passage with the santūr. We found that the movements of the wrist and elbow played a major role in playing the santūr, whose contributions exhibited tempo-dependent modulation in a systematic manner. The results further indicated the diff erence in motor solutions between the two professional players, both at the level of joint coordination of the dominant arm and at the use of fi ngers, even though they played the same exact passage. The idiosyncrasy of motor solution observed in the two professional players implied that the process of learning involved individual exploration and guided discovery of the dynamic constraints in such a way to meet the demand of the task, which has implications for the process of learning to play musical instruments including santūr.

motor control

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