Takeo Tchinai, head of the Archiving Project for Left-Hand Piano Musicoversees a growing corpus* of music for pianist who, for whatever reason, have lost or never had some or all use of their left hand, perhaps because they have lost or never had some or all of their left hand, perhaps because they have dystonia, perhaps […]
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Piano-induced near-trauma, for testing purposes
Roberts Musical Restorations restores instruments. They also post videos that may be instrumental in getting people to see instrumental possibilities. The two videos here will, if viewed in order, (1) frazzle your nervous system and then (2) calm what’s left of it. First this. “DEATH WALTZ CANT BE PLAYED ON A PIANO!! The problem is that […]
28 Straight Hours at the Keyboard
German and Austrian researchers analysed what happened to pianist Armin Fuchs when he spent more than a full day playing over and over again, nonstop, an oddly-named piece of music by a French composer. They also analysed what happened to the music. This was a tour de force of artistic and neurological repetition. The research […]
Playing music not designed for piano
Rik Kuiper, curator of the Museum of Unintended Use, writes: [I] received this press release, recently issued by Leiden University. It started like this: “Playing the piano with your forearm, plucking the strings, sawing through the piano: pianist Luk Vaes‘s doctoral dissertation covers all the techniques of play for which a piano is NOT designed.” […]