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style='font-size:12.0pt'> Personally I always want my elbows to =
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Glen
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Well try playing a Bach invention =
with
your wrists resting on the key slip… : ) I don’t know =
if GG
did this. (But I did see Horowitz ( I think) on TV do this, his =
wrists
were way below the keyboard playing ppp in an adagio section. =
On a
low bench your ears are closer to the sound, and you get a better =
look at
what keys you are playing. In other words your head is closer to =
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