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Violin ''Playing-In'': Disentangling Physical Change from Player Adaptation via Physical Measurements

Claudia Fritz (IJLRDA-LAM), Hugo Pauget Ballesteros, Lead), LS2N - \'equipe SIMS), Philippe Lalitte (IReMus, Vincent Lostanlen (LS2N

A six-month study of daily violin playing found no acoustical changes exceeding environmental drift in unplayed controls.

arxiv:2605.18305 v1 · 2026-05-18 · physics.class-ph

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Results revealed no acoustical evolution in the played violin exceeding the environmental drift observed in the control instruments. Furthermore, kinematic analysis showed no significant drift in the soloist's bowing strategy (bow position, velocity, contact point). These findings suggest that the playing-in phenomenon is driven neither by macroscopic physical changes in the instrument nor by a fundamental reorganization of the player's technique.

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That any playing-induced physical changes capable of affecting perceived sound would appear as measurable differences in input admittance or radiated sound that exceed the environmental variations seen in the two stored control violins over the same six-month period (implied in the comparison of Before/After phases and control design).

C3one line summary

A controlled longitudinal experiment using laser vibrometry, sound recordings, and motion capture finds no acoustical or kinematic changes attributable to playing-in beyond environmental drift.

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[1] George Bissinger. Modal Analysis Comparison of New Violin Before and After - 250 Hours of Playing. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, January 1995. 6 H. Pauget Ba 1995

[2] Carleen M. Hutchins. A Measurable Effect of Long-Term Playing on Violin Family Instruments. Catgut Acoustical Society, 1998 1998

[3] New Versus Old: Playing- in Instruments through Vibratory Transmission of Music to the Bridge 1997

[4] D. G. Hunt and E. Balsan. Why old fiddles sound sweeter. Nature, 379(6567):681–681, February 1996. ISSN 1476- 1996

[5] An experimental study of changes in the impulse response of a wood plate that is subject to vibrational stimulus 2003

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arxiv: 2605.18305 · arxiv_version: 2605.18305v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18305 · pith_short_12: G7UEGULE3T6U · pith_short_16: G7UEGULE3T6U3EWO · pith_short_8: G7UEGULE

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