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Don’t Try This at Home! – Mechanical Aids to Practice

Don’t Try This at Home! – Mechanical Aids to Practice

By Graham Fitch, 2013-12-20
Posted in: Practising

If you were a student at the Stuttgart Conservatory in the mid 1800‘s during the reign of Sigismund Lebert and Ludwig Stark, you would have had to practise a strict…

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Tags: Dactylionfinger schoolhammer touchhammer-fingerHenri HerzhistoryJura MargulisKalkbrennerLebertLebert and StarkLogier's Chiroplastmechanical aidsNatalia Strelchenkorotary movementStarkStuttgart Conservatorytechniquetheory
Don’t Try This at Home! – Mechanical Aids to Practice
The History of Piano Technique (Part 2)

The History of Piano Technique (Part 2)

By Graham Fitch, 2013-11-29
Posted in: General tips

One of the things that really gets my goat is the totally erroneous statement that the harpsichord is incapable of expression. Many famous and influential pianists who should know better…

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Tags: bartolomeo cristoforiDavid SchraderDulckenexpressionhammer-fingerharpsichordhistoryjs bachKenneth GilbertMuseum VleeshuisPleyelPractising The Piano eBook SeriesRuckersRuth DysonSusan Alexander-MaxtechniqueVermeer The Music LessonVladimir HorowitzWanda LandowskaZipoli
The History of Piano Technique (Part 2)

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