![]() There are many roads to the same destination but often it is what we don't know about anatomy that holds us back. People who don't know this will disagree but that is okay. Playing any keyboard instrument is much the same. It isn't the hand that strikes the ball with the club, it is the whole body and the hands are the conduit. If you have ever taken golf lessons, you know about hand and finger placement, balancing on the balls of your feet, alignment, equal and opposite motions, rotation of the shoulders and hips. Break those laws and there will be an orthopedic surgeon in your future. There are laws of physics and bodily ergonomics that must be adhered to. Piano playing is as much an athletic sport as any other. It could also be that they have some improper movements such as abduction, ulnar or radial deviation which is getting in the way of the arm's alignment. When people complain that the action may be stiff or shallow on any particular instrument it is because they are trying to play from the fingers (which don't have any muscles) and not the arm. Well, unless you abduct or have a wrist deviation. Using in/out, up/down, the pronator/supinator muscles and gravity, those movements takes the burden off the long flexors and playing is effortless. On the organ I leave just enough weight to "rest up" yet sustain the tone but really, it is not much different than playing legato without using the sustain pedal. I play a tracker organ, acoustic piano, electronic organ and electric piano every week for various jobs and I play them exactly the same, from the weight of my arm. ![]()
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