Thumb- 2nd finger assembly and Chopin's ''easiest'' etude

merci, Eric AFF

@ I'd like to revisit this topic to share a more than interesting experience I had quite recently with a student which shows that certain problems not always are what they seem to be. This student had a "coupled"/"linked" index and middle finger in the left hand. When asked to lay down and spread his hand flat on the table, lift the fingers one by one and slap them down to the surface, it turned out that he was unable to lift his middle finger even slightly without also activating/cramping the index finger. His index finger had never been "lazy" at all (the initial diagnosis by a colleague); it just used to compensate for a weakness in the third finger (weird and unpractical rotational tricks were also part of what was happening during performance), and the index finger was therefore overburdened by all this compensating and couldn't do its own job properly. P.S.: The "patient" is on the right track now. Paul

Thanks for the interesting case history! AFF