The Ergonomic Violin has Arrived
Thursday June 15, 2006
Tricia Ho, an industrial design graduate, has just won the Gold Australian Design Award - Dyson Student Award respectively at the 2006 Australian Design Awards. The Ergonomic Violin, or EV, is simply brilliant. It provides the violinist with several interchangable frame choices that allow them to customize the fit of the violin to reduce the neck and shoulder problems most violinists suffer from.
Taking the fitting even farther, part of the frame is made of a shape memory polymer that can be molded to fit the body by warming it in a dish of hot water. The process is reversable so the frame can be molded over and over again to get things just right.
Tricia Ho has done an outstanding job in this design. It should help countless of adult violinists, both professional and amateurs, to eleminate the pain associated with playing the violin. It should also help children learn to play without compromising their musculoskeletal development.
Comments
As the article says, it’s an ergonomic electric violin.
I was wondering how they could remould the body of a regular violin and still get any kind of decent sound out of it!