squeezing stress balls and talcum powder

[Tash]

1) does squeezing stress balls in your hand do anything that would benefit your fingers, pianistically?

2) i'm on a search on finding how to rid my hands of claminess before peformances, and so far i've tried talcum powder, which works pretty well. but are there any other suggestions out there?

[ted]

What's a stress ball ? A number of guesses spring to my mind but I doubt they are correct.

[gorbee natcase]

I doubt it would benefit your fingers/however I suppose it would help to relieve stress thus making you more relaxed at the piano, now that can't be a bad thing

[Tash]

stress ball, you know, those balls made of some squishy plastic you fit in your hand and squeeze it to 'relieve' stress! you can get ones with smiley faces on them and stuff