Sunday, August 10, 2008

Tailor made musical instruments

You can walk into a department store and pick up a t-shirt that fits you perfectly. You can also go to a tailor and have a shirt stitched up for you with your body measurements. So is it possible to have a musical instrument built just for you?
If you look around the world of musical instruments you will see that there are so many musical instruments ranging from piano, violin, flute, guitar. Now each of these instruments require a different technical/physical aspect to be mastered to ensure you to play the instrument well. For example in case of piano, you need to master playing with both hands. In case of violin you need to master finger positions and bowing. In case of flute you need to master breathing. Now given this wide spectrum of instruments, you would wonder how they came about? My hypothesis is that each instrument got created by someone to match their most natural ability to play music. So when you go to join a school to learn a musical instrument, you are trying to master an instrument that might not be the most natural fit for your ability. So that begs the question whether it is possible to make tailor made instruments that suit your physical ability the best? After all eventually the music that all these instruments create is what matters...

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