Sound chair

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Sound chair

A sound chair is a special variant of the monochord in the form of a chair, which is strung on the back with several strings tuned to the same pitch .

description

Sound chair - rear view with the strings

A sound chair is a chair of variable size that is provided with bare or wound strings that are tuned to the same pitch. While one person is sitting on this chair, a second person standing behind the chair strokes the strings. The resulting sound and the resulting oscillations as well as the resulting vibration are transmitted to the entire body of the person sitting down to the fingertips. The resulting sounds and physically noticeable vibrations should lead to relaxation and have a calming effect.

As a rule, sound chairs are made of wood , but the exhibition “Harter Stoff. Carbon - the material of the future ”in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, a special production of a sound chair made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (“ carbon ”), constructed by the Stuttgart Institute for Aircraft Construction . The Leibniz Association counted this special model of a sound chair among the highlights of the exhibition.

history

The sound chair was developed by the Berlin instrument maker Bernhard Deutz and exhibited in 1996 at the international music therapy world congress in Hamburg, along with other instruments used in music therapy. There he was awarded second prize in the competition for new therapeutic instruments organized by the World Federation of Music Therapy . In the meantime, sound chairs are also being manufactured by a number of other suppliers.

Uses

Sound chairs are used to support meditation and in music therapy, for example to support the treatment of communication disorders in childhood, when working with children with hearing impairments , to support imaginative concepts, in the treatment of patients with chronic pain and in palliative medicine .

literature

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ a b c M. Warth, G. Platzbecker, J. Kessler and HJ Bardenheuer: Possibilities of music therapy work with monochord and sound chair on the basis of an individual examination. In: Journal of Palliative Medicine 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Sybille Engels and Jan Eßwein: Meditation for the inexperienced and the impatient , Gräfe and Unzer , Munich 2008, p. 73 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Body monochord treatment in psychosomatics - subjective experience and psychophysiological parameters , on the website of the Berlin Charité .
  6. ↑ a b Carbon - Material of the Future , on the website of the Leibniz Association .
  7. ↑ Hard stuff. Carbon - the material of the future ( Memento from May 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), on the website of the Deutsches Museum .
  8. ↑ a b Ingrid von Hänisch (Ed.): Who accompanies the companions? Theodor Springmann Stiftung , Heidelberg 2009, p. 13 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  9. ^ Bernhard Deutz, Cordula Dietrich: body tambura - a new music therapy instrument. In: Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual , Volume 1 (2005), p. 67 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  10. ↑ Christian Schulz, Andreas Heller and Christine Dunger (eds.): Palliative Care and Hospiz. Eine Grounded Theory , Springer Science + Business Media , Berlin 2014, p. 129 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  11. ^ Gerhard Böhme: Complementary procedures for communication disorders: for speech therapists, speech therapists and doctors , Georg Thieme Verlag , Stuttgart 2010, p. 52 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  12. ↑ Shirley Salmon: Music as a way to dialogue with children with hearing impairments , lecture given on May 13, 2002 in the Herbert von Karajan Center in Vienna . In: bidok .
  13. ↑ Thomas Richter: The KlangWoge - An instrument for expanding and strengthening imaginative concepts of receptive music therapy. In: Musiktherapeutische Umschau , Volume 29.1 (2008), pp. 34–41, here p. 35 (PDF, 161 kB).