Injuries – Digital Piano Play And Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
See the advantages of a digital piano to lower risks from repetitive motion injuries. Options for ‘light touch' control in digital pianos allow you to keep playing while recovering from carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Digital Pianos – The Perfect Practice Instrument
Keyboard and repetitive-motion injuries are a potential in any musician's life. Fortunately, digital piano designers have at least indirectly addressed this problem through some design and layout features which will assist players to continue their craft.
- Advantage Of Play Sensitivity Controls. On more advanced digital pianos designs, as created by leading firms such as Korg, Kawai or Yamaha you can select a play sensitivity control which gives you the option to play in "light", "medium", or "heavy" mode. What does this mean, in practical terms? Essentially, your digital piano can be fully expressive, while playing on the "light" mode, limiting your need to hit the keys with the normal sort of muscular control and impact.
- Sound Engineer Your Past Sequences. The technology side of digital pianos creates ‘memory' and programmable functions so that you can continue to work on your music, even when hand or wrist injuries prevent you from actually playing. How does this work? Quite simply, your music software or MIDI controller interface allow you to not only "play along" with earlier music ( yours plus others), but also to download, review and edit. You get a great teaching tool which you can use on your rest or ‘down days' in order to get almost the same thing as a live rehearsal experience. Only a digital piano could give you this sort of ‘extended use' during a time of hand or wrist injury.
Musicians won't resolve tendonitis or carpal tunnel syndrome without proper medical treatment, as well as a deeper understanding of the full range of movements necessary to playing. However, digital pianos designs continue to explore the boundaries of playing as well as anatomical and design interfaces to better assist musicians to remain active and productive.
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