My career as a pianist...

[omar_roy]

Drawn to a halt and ruined, all because I took a fall and landed on my hand the wrong way.  Best of luck to all of you. 

[perfect_pitch]

WHAT??? What the hell happened?

Have you gone to a physiologist to see if there's any way to get it back up and functioning???

Seriously, do whatever you can to get back to the piano - you're good and I'd sh*t myself if anything happened to me like that.

I hope this is just a tiny set-back and we'll see you back on your feet in no time... I do hope that.

[libraboy]

Jack Gibbons was once in a car accident that nearly severed his ulnar nerve but came back better than ever. Cziffra used to be tortured by Hungarian Communists that made him carry 130 lbs of stone blocks to ruin his hands; after he was released his ligaments were all loosened up and couldn't channel his strength to his fingers anymore. But after four months of physical therapy he was back on stage.

[lostinidlewonder]

Lots of virtuoso one handed pieces

[omar_roy]

Several months ago I took a fall and landed on my right hand the wrong way.  I landed on my fist on the pinky's base knuckle, disfiguring the ligament that runs along the top of the knuckle.  Whenever I play, it hurts to use the right pinky, and the docs told me that there isn't really much that they can do.The result is pain and extreme weakening of the pinky.  It still hurts to this day, and I fell around February.  I can still play, but my right pinky has no power anymore.  Music will always be a large part of my life, and I'll continue to play.  I just won't be seeing the concert stage.

[perfect_pitch]

sh*t man... that's a *** bugger...

I don't know what I would do if that happened to me... I really don't. I try not to...

Is it worth just practicing the easy classics to gently get back into some sort of practice??? You know - Beethoven Minuet in G, Mozart easy sonatinas etc... just to get back into giving your pinky a little bit of easy exercise???

sh*t man... I don't know what else to say but, I seriously hope that somehow you continue on with your playing and that one day you eventually reach your goal of performing again on stage... I really do.

[omar_roy]

It's not really a matter of easy-exercising.  I can still play everything I used to, but the top notes and melodies will never sing the same way because the ligaments that run along the top of that finger were messed up from landing on the knuckle. 

[pies]

God works in mysterious ways.

[jazzyprof]

So sorry to hear that.  Is surgery a possibility?  Good hand surgeons can do wonders.

[perfect_pitch]

God works in mysterious ways.

I hate to say that, but I don't believe that. There's too much crap going on in this world for it all to be part of a master plan.

Sadly enough - shitty things happen to good people and I think this is one of those times.

[omar_roy]

I asked my doc about going under the knife, but he said there's not really anything you can do to fix something like this.  I don't believe that God works in mysterious ways.  I do believe that everything that happens in one's life opens up new opportunities.  There's nothing I can do about it now, so now I need to adapt, improvise, and overcome.  I'm looking at several different career opportunities now.  I'll always continue to play, I just won't make it to the stage, and that's something I've come to accept.

[Petter]

Jazz piano perhaps? Jazz pianists through the years have had all sorts of physical and mental handicaps.

[iroveashe]

God works in mysterious ways.

He works? I thought he was resting.

[communist]

He works? I thought he was resting.

until the eight day of course.

[retrouvailles]

Why not just play left hand alone works like the great one handed pianists, such as Gary Graffman, Leon Fleischer, Cor de Groot, Paul Wittgenstein, and others? You don't have to avoid the stage. There are tons and tons of works for left hand alone.