Post Your Afflictions

[thalbergmad]

oh, I have numberous ones of these:

1 - tendonitis (not so good for a pianist)
2 - constant lung infections (not so great for when I'm doing choir practice)
3 - double jointedness..... this may sound good, but my joints keep dislocating themselves and its quite inconvenient
4 - I'm short-sighted and it annoys me
5 - my shins aren't aligned right so I can't bend my feet properly
6 - my hands are always too cold to play
7 - when I do octave glissando, my fingers bleed, but I think I'm pushing the boundaries somewhat here, because I'm sure it happens to everyone

But apart from those, you are OK yeh.

Thal

[pianistimo]

deja vu - did you say 'my shins aren't aligned right...'  did you break your leg/s too?  or was it from a lot of running and shin splints?  let them rest.  don't keep running.  bicycle!  it's a lot easier on your shins and feet! 

[johnny-boy]

7 - when I do octave glissando, my fingers bleed - deja vu

Mine do too. I don't know how Little Richard does it.

John

[ahinton]

7 - when I do octave glissando, my fingers bleed - deja vu

Mine do too. I don't know how Little Richard does it

I know how little I do it! (but then I'm not a pianist, so I admit that I wouldn't really expect to do it at all, really). There's a wonderful right-hand example of what might be seen as a kind of premature opportunity to do one of these towards to close of the first movement of Haydn's late C major piano trio...

Best,

Alistair

[jpianoflorida]

AFFLICTION:  getting addicted to pianostreet forum.....why did i ever sign up..it's mind control....you go out and first thing when you come home, check posts, first thing in morning, check post.....help....is there medicine for it?   anyone else suffering?    we need a support group to help us get off the support group of piano forum....

[thalbergmad]

don't keep running.  bicycle!  it's a lot easier on your shins and feet! 

Your most sensible post ever.

Thal

[pianolist]

By far the best exercise for the shins, thighs and feet is pianola playing. It's just like bicycling, but you get lovely music instead of being knocked down by GTR drivers.

The cyclist pedals twenty leagues,
  The pianolist twenty gigues;
From Bach to Liszt, from Grieg to Gershwin,
  He plays them all, without rehearshwin.

[deja vu]

no, I don't do exercise

my shins are screwed because I was born that way