Trombone Performance

Papers and Conference Presentations

• Lammers, M. (1983) An electromyographic examination of selected muscles in the right arm during trombone performance. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.
• Lammers, M. & Kruger, M. (1991) The right arm of trombonists. International Trombone Association Journal, Summer, 14-17.
• Lammers, M., Kruger, M., Fuller, R., Stoner, L., & Allyn, D. (1996) Biomechanics of Musical Performance: Development of Expertise in a Natural Task, Playing the Trombone. Proceedings of the 15th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference held in Dayton, Ohio, March 28-29, 1996.
• Kruger, M., Lammers, M., Fuller, R., Stoner, L., & Allyn, D. (1996) Music Peformance Physiology: Development of Expertise in a Natural Task, the right arm of trombone players. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Technological Directions in Music Education sponsored by the Institute for Music Research, University of Texas at San Antonio, February 8, 1996.
• Kruger, M., Lammers, M., Stoner, L., Allyn, D., & Fuller, R. (1996) Musical expertise: The dynamic movement of the trombone slide. Found in Haake, S. J. (Ed.) The Engineering of Sport. Amsterdamn, Netherlands, A.K. Balkema Publishers.
• Kruger, M., Lammers, M., Stoner, L., Allyn, D., & Fuller, R. (1996) Musical performance: Successful movement of the trombone slide. Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Biomechanics held at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
• Kruger, M., Lammers, M., Stoner, L., Allyn, D., & Fuller, R. (1997) Biomechanics of musical performance: Moving the trombone slide. Proceedings of the Third Triennial Conference of the Europeon Society of Cognitive Sciences of Music held at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Kruger, M., Lammers, Fuller, R., M., Allyn, D. & Stoner, L.J. (1997-1998) Biomechanics of music performance: Moving the trombone slide. NACWPI Journal, Winter, 1997-98, Vol. XLVI, No 2. (A revised version of the ESCOM paper.)
  Lammers, M. & Kruger, M. (2000) Measuring movement in musical performance. Invited Address: The Physics Congress (Physics of Musical Instruments), Brighton, England.
• Lammers, M. & Kruger, M. (2000) Domain specific expertise and the study of motor skills in musical performance. Paper presentation at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition meeting held in Toronto, Canada, November 2000.
• Kruger, M. & Lammers, M. (2000) Measuring Slide Movement. Poster Presentation at the 6th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition held at Keele University, United Kingdon, August 2000.
• Lammers, M. & Kruger, M. (2001) Beginning Trombone Players: What skills to they develop? Paper presentation at the 2001 meeting of the Society for Music Perception & Cognition held at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• Lammers, M. & Kruger, M. (2003) Performance Errors and Expertise. Paper presentation at the 2001 meeting of the Society for Music Perception & Cognition held at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 2003.