The history of violin making and playing 1600 - present
Take the violin seriously from a technological perspective as a device that has survived 300 years.
Understand why it had such a successful past and present.
Learn from the (mostly unsuccessful) attempts to improve it.
Implications for future instruments, assuming successful modeling:
1. Give good instruments to more players.
2. Great players want more flexibility and richer instruments. One gesture can map into more than one sound.
3. Students should have instruments that allow for faster progress in a restricted control space.