Author: maxopf
Date: 2014-10-08 08:15
I play both violin and clarinet, and I definitely move a lot more when playing clarinet.
I think it's for two reasons:
1. Playing clarinet feels more physically involved than playing violin (or viola.) Clarinet playing requires effort from your fingers, mouth, tongue, throat, lungs, diaphragm, abdominals, etc., whereas violin is mostly arms and fingers. (Not to say that playing a string instrument isn't involved - it is - just a smaller part of you is involved.)
2. Excessive movement is actually detrimental to violin playing, because if you swing the violin all over the place, the bow probably won't land on the string how you want it to land, and the violin could shift from its resting position under your chin. It also just feels really awkward to move excessively while playing the violin - why, I can't exactly explain, it just doesn't feel natural.
When you do move on violin, it's usually for a specific purpose, like facilitating an accent.
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