tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post8758329252248563634..comments2024-02-27T10:53:04.581+01:00Comments on paperpools: tone or techniqueHelen DeWitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-81282460461664081912007-06-17T10:25:00.000+00:002007-06-17T10:25:00.000+00:00It may be that this is to some extent a problem of...It may be that this is to some extent a problem of using language to describe the action of the body. My mother felt that her early teachers had tried to get her to produce good tone without giving her guidance on the physical training needed to do so without strain. In her mid-30s she had a Japanese teacher who told her to go back and start from scratch, playing the first piece in Czerny's Art of Finger Dexterity using the whole weight of the arm. I see that this is in direct opposition to what you are saying; can only say that my mother found that after hundreds of hours of this unbelievably tedious work she did find that she was able to play passages that had given great difficulty before, without sacrificing the tone. She felt that up to that point she had been doing everything from the wrist and fingers and that this had led to many limitations in what she was able to achieve.Helen DeWitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-43171465451637171652007-06-16T20:30:00.000+00:002007-06-16T20:30:00.000+00:00Hello, first of all, a beautiful tone is not produ...Hello, first of all, a beautiful tone is not produced by the whole body or by strength from the shoulders. Nothing in pianism should be so produced. The piano is a singing instrument under the right hands. It is not an instrument that one practice's his/her body building and wieght training workouts. Great tone is produced by a supple use of the wrist guiding the fingers. Amen.Alexander Freyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02733741180490332510noreply@blogger.com