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New Orchestra Chairs Promise Better Musical Results

Mike Lawson • News • July 12, 2012

Designer David Brothers has introduced a new orchestra chair designed to optimize musicians’ posture and breathing. Designer David Brothers has introduced a new orchestra chair designed to optimize musicians’ posture and breathing. Brothers, a professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s School of Art and Design, says that focusing a chair’s ability to influence those factors will ultimately produce a better-sounding orchestra. His chairs are made of a lightweight carbon fiber and can be tilted forward with adjustable lumbar support and height for musicians of all sizes and instrumentation.

The product was recently featured in an in-depth article in Wired here.

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