On 06/18/11 03:53, Xah Lee wrote: > On Jun 15, 5:43 am, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jun 15, 5:32 pm, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks. From testing small movements with my fingers I see that the >>> fourth finger is in fact a bit weaker than the last finger, but more >>> importantly, it is much less dexterous. Good to know! >> >> Most of the piano technique-icians emphasis, especially those of the >> last century like Hanon, was to cultivate 'independence' of the >> fingers. The main target of these attacks being the 4th finger. >> >> The number of potential-pianists who ruined their hands and lives >> chasing this holy grail is unknown > > Hi rusi, am afaid going to contradict what u say here. > > i pretty much mastered Hanon 60. All of it, but it was now 8 years > ago. The idea that pinky is stronger than 4th is silly. I can't fathom > any logic or science to support that. Perhaps what u meant is that in > many situations the use of pinky can be worked around because it in at > the edge of your hand so you can apply chopping motion or similar. > (which, is BAD if you want to develope piano finger skill) However, > that's entirely different than saying pinky being stronger than 4th. > > there's many ways we can cookup tests right away to see. e.g. try to > squeeze a rubber ball with 4th and thumb. Repeat with pink + thumb. > Or, reverse exercise by stretching a rubber band wrapped on the 2 > fingers of interest. You can easy see that pinky isn't stronger.
Except that the actual finger strength themselves are not very relevant; the dexterity of the fingers turned out to matter more because pressing the keys in a keyboard does not actually take a lot of power. Finger strength is even less important in typing than piano since, since the character produced by power press and light press are the same. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
