July 8, 2005

Stress in Piano Playing

Stress in Piano Playing

I came across this useful article for pianists; and also this article agreed with my statement that piano playing is a sport.

Someone calculated that it takes the equivalent energy of shovelling three tons of coal just to move the keys in Rachmaninov’s Third Concerto - and this does not take into account the emotional and intellectual energy used!

Bahaha.

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  1. Dosen’t surprise me at all…
    How would they measure that?

    Comment by a — July 8, 2005 @ 1:51 pm

  2. I’m guessing by the amount of calory it takes to burn.

    Comment by Sof — July 8, 2005 @ 2:06 pm

  3. and it depends if the player follows the dynamics. if u played the entire thing softly then yea u know

    Comment by kenjamin — July 8, 2005 @ 6:51 pm

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