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An adapted reinterpretation of armweight technique

Technique and methods 21 posts Started 18 Jan 2017

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But it's never appropriate to drop from a height! AFF have you seen the film of Gilels playing the Rachmaninoff C sharp minor Prelude? He starts close in the left hand but drops his right arm from above for a deeper tone, that is radically differentiated from the left. It's the most remarkable sound I've ever heard in that opening.

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