Clarification

Hi Alan thank you so much for your previous answers! can you help me understnad what is weightless playing? I saw in one of the videos-Rachmaninov Prelude in G sharp minor Op.32 No.12, you told the student to play weightless,does that have to do with the dynamics? playing weightless mens that the arm muscles hold the entire weight of the arm againts gravity more? on that same notion -from your book i was trying to do the exercise of putting full weight on a certain finger and play feather-like touch with the other one while the first finger is still holding the note-why when putting weight on one note the other fingers van play feather-like sound? isnt it better to hold a note without the weight of the arm compressing on it? isnt it also something that arm weight school would use? even playing legato that way (feeling the weight on a note and then the one afterwards-ying and yang), feels heavy in the hand,so why use? also - i read in the previous comments about the bird beak position-and your answer-so,does that mean that high muscle tonus is crucial to play forte? that muscle tonus of the bird beak is done before the actual playing,the hand descends already with the tonus towards the keys,so i still fail to understand why high muscle tonus in the hands is connected to playing forte,and was i right to assume that high muscle tonus happens before the notes are played? thank you so very much:)-sorry for the long questions

I think at this point you should get my books and spend a good long time studying them in depth. You are studying with a great deal of perception and curiosity, but in the end I cannot rewrite all my books here on the forum. Your questions are excellent. About weight. Just remember that as you walk down the street, 1) Yes you do weigh something. 2) You are not aware of your weight - you are floating down the street and you feel basically weightless - at least, you should if your walking is well-organized. 3) Yes your muscles conspire a) to help your skeleton stand up and b) to help it move, but you are not really aware of which muscles are doing what. At the piano it should be more or less the same. This constant preoccupation with weight to my mind is highly detrimental and even obsessively perverse, and we should let it go. AFF