A contribution to the study of instrumental music

Abstract

Studies the difficulties involved in producing, maintaining and damping a tone. Also focuses on the related factors such as fatigue, memorizing difficult passages, coordinating finger movements and the like. Introspective reports indicate difficulties in the production of the single tone, correcting a faulty habit of tongue placing and articulating the tone efficiently and accurately immediately after the tongue is withdrawn. The process of damping of tone was partially analyzed. Observed that diaphragmal damping was effective in spoken syllables and sung tones. Auditory images did play a part in playing tones true to the pitch. The difficulty in muscular coordination of the valve fingers was identified and corrected through subsequent practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)