Steinway heavy touch

Thomas Cole tcole@cruzio.com
Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:22:50 -0700


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Richard Brekne wrote:

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>>Dave
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>You want to advise RSI afflicteds that their problems will be solved by
>lowering touchweight,.. Go for it.
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I don't know that lowering touchweight, or should we say balance weight, 
is going to cure RSIs. It is possible that a light touch is less 
stressful for those so afflicted, but I doubt that a heavy touch is the 
cause of their injury. Whenever a pianist mentions to me that their 
piano playing is being affected by RSI, I encourage them to find a 
teacher who knows about the Dorothy Taubman method. So many people are 
causing themselves injury because they haven't figured out (and no one 
has taught them) that there is a natural way to play, where it is not 
such an effort. It's as if the body knows there is a better way to play 
and RSI is its way of making you aware that you're working too hard.

http://www.teresadybvig.com/taubman.htm  or do a Google search for 
Dorothy Taubman method.

Tom Cole
Santa Cruz, CA



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