On Aug 10, 2011, at 1:42 PM, theoj89...@aol.com wrote: > Take great care with stretching exercises of the hand!! I deal fairly often > with musicians' injuries, and musicians are nearly as bad as competitive > athletes as far as abusing their bodies to try to get better performance. > Remember that Robert Schumann permanently damaged his right hand trying to > increase his performance by stretching his fingers with some contraption.
A widely repeated canard about Schumann, but almost certainly untrue. Your advice should nonetheless be heeded. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
