How to keep hands/fingers safe?

[spitz]

I'm not very safe with my hands I guess..... Today I had to play at a recietal which was kinda difficult to do because I broke my left ring and middle finger when trying to help someone move. And teacher didn't seem to care she made me play anyway...need less to say I was the worst preformer their because broke my fingers trying to help someone move. So I get pain phsichally and emotionally for for doing a good deed nothigh makes sense any more...anyway....
So for future reference, please post how to keep hands/fingers safe.

                                                                                   Thank you,
                                                                                    Spitz

[zheer]

 By Keeping them in a safe place.

[Jacey1973]

I'm not very safe with my hands I guess..... Today I had to play at a recietal which was kinda difficult to do because I broke my left ring and middle finger when trying to help someone move. And teacher didn't seem to care she made me play anyway...need less to say I was the worst preformer their because broke my fingers trying to help someone move. So I get pain phsichally and emotionally for for doing a good deed nothigh makes sense any more...anyway....
So for future reference, please post how to keep hands/fingers safe.

                                                                                   Thank you,
                                                                                    Spitz

Awww poor you - that sounds so painful! Its no wonder you couldn'y play properly. I've luckily (touch wood) never broken any of my fingers, i always try to make sure i don't do anything that may break them! But then i must be more careful in the future when drunk.....

[pantonality]

If your finger was really broken it would be impossible to play (I have broken fingers I know what it feels like). If that's the case then simply refusing to play would be all that's necessary. Your parents should have backed you up (assuming you're not an adult). Now if your finger was just a bit banged up that's a different story.

As for keeping fingers safe I'm not the guy to ask. I also do Taekwondo (2nd degree Black Belt) and breaking boards is just part of what we do. Boards don't scare me. We like to joke that it only hurts when you don't break the board (not 100% true). Concrete does scare me, I've only broken a brick once and my wrist only hurt for a day afterwards.

As for how to keep hands safe. Don't help friends move just before a recital. I don't agree with those who try very hard to protect their hands. That's only for those who make significant money playing. It's been my experience that when you try very hard to protect something like your hands the universe will find a way to prove that folly. If you don't try so hard, but just avoid stupid stuff (like punching walls) you'll be fine.

[spitz]

My finger was really broken (my ring finger was banged up a bit but my middle had a little finger cast after the trip to the doctors) but my teacher did not care and she made me play anyway. I am a kid (13(teenager(...whatever))) but my parent just told me to substitute my fingers and it'd be ok. (...Yes I was gonna learn to play a 15 minute piece with different fingering within the next, oh, say 10 secs seeing as I was first. And I broke my finger from helping the person move foodstorage in tin cans, since moving them was to slow we did a fireman brigade(in our can passing the cans to the next person and the next and so on) but because we didn't have enough people we tossed the cans instead and I caught a can funky jammed my fingers (all of them but only ring and middle were really hurt.) So yeah I'm not gonna help anyone move on the day of a recietal again because my piece was the worst because of the pause trying to substitute fingers and because if I forgot to and played the ring or middle fingers I'd let out a small scream of pain I've learned my lesson though

[donjuan]

your teacher "made" you play??

k, I know some teachers will put their students through hell to force them to learn something new, but I think this is just pushing it too far...

[invictus]

One of my few surpreme threads 

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,13477.0.html

Should help ALOT

[spitz]

One of my few surpreme threads 

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,13477.0.html

Should help ALOT

I'm way to poor to do that kinda stuff lol

[BoliverAllmon]

I just live life normally. I find that the harder I try to keep them safe, the more I bang them up.

[leahcim]

My finger was really broken (my ring finger was banged up a bit but my middle had a little finger cast after the trip to the doctors) but my teacher did not care and she made me play anyway.

Sue her.