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Technique and methods 2 posts Started 18 Jan 2017

A pianist

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when playing the piano do we use the lumbricals or the flexors muscles or both?

Alanfraserpiano

Both. Lumbricals are for the stronger contractions, the flexors for the finer ones. Another way of putting it: lumbricals for the whole finger (proximal phalange), flexors for the tip (distal and medial phalanges). AFF

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