This article presents an application of a triangular theory of love as it applies to love for musical instruments. The triangular theory comprises three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment. Intimacy, which is primarily emotional, refers to feelings of closeness, connectedness, warmth, communication, and emotional support. Passion, which is primarily motivational, refers to feelings that one cannot live without another, that one needs another in one’s life, and that one cannot even imagine one’s life without the other. Commitment refers to the decision to love and to stay in the relationship indefinitely. These components are applied in the article toward love of musical instruments, and the theory is given as an account of some of the factors that may lead students of musical instruments either to stay with those instruments or to quit playing them. A measure is described that could be used to assess love of musical instruments (and that is currently being validated), and empirical findings from past studies on the triangular theory of love are presented.

本文介绍了三角爱的理论的应用，因为它适用于对乐器的爱。三角理论包括三个部分：亲密，热情和承诺。亲密关系主要是情感上的，是指亲密，连通，温暖，交流和情感支持的感觉。激情，主要是激励性的，是指一种感觉，即一个人没有另一个就无法生存，一个人的一生中需要另一个，而一个人甚至无法想象一个人的生活。承诺是指爱并无限期地保持恋爱关系的决定。这些组成部分在本文中用于表达对乐器的热爱，给出该理论是对一些因素的考虑，这些因素可能导致乐器学生留在那些乐器中或退出演奏。描述了一种可用于评估对乐器的热爱的措施（目前正在验证），并介绍了以往关于三角爱的三角理论研究的经验发现。