A Thought About DVD

In the DVD I not have see the use of the body (muscle of all the body), playing the piano. Use correct or not correct of muscle of arm, leg, shoulders. ecc., all muscle of the body, during my performance at the piano, cause a udible different sound. Feldenkrais Method say use only muscle necessary and relax muscle not necessary or never use opposit muscle. Playing piano if I use muscle of my body not necessary I can hear a ugly sound.

You are absolutely right. I focused only on the hand and arm because I felt there were so many issues that needed to be addressed in that area. I simply didn't have the space or time to talk about the body. This is true for The Craft of Piano Playing book as well. Only in the second half of Honing, after roughly 600 pages of writing, do I finally feel I have really drawn a clear, complete picture of the pianistic hand and arm and can now make the other crucial connection: relate them back to the whole body. My work now more and more concerns the relationship of body to hand - but I felt that the preliminary painting of the hand itself in detail was necessary. Thanks for a perceptive comment! AFF