Alan's take on arm weight technique, pros and cons.
Born in Montreal in 1955 Alan Fraser studied piano but also delved into composition, cello, classical singing and had several stints as a pop musician. Alan’s main pianistic influence was the pioneering research of Phil Cohen who studied alongside Ronald Turini, Andre Laplante and Janina Fialkowska with Yvonne Hubert, who had been Cortot‘s assistant in Paris. Alan spent several years with Cohen after an apprenticeship with two former Cohen students, Alan Belkin and Lauretta Milkman.
Alan talks about how he has felt about arm weight most of his life
Alan explains what the arm weight is and how people fail to explain it well
Alan explains how arm weight divorces hand from the gravity
How skeletal mechanics relate to piano playing
A way to unify all the school of piano technique
Biotensegrity makes every piano approach better and unifies them all
Elasticity and biotensegrity applied to octaves
