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Sitting Posture
Sit on the edge of a stool (bench) with a firm flat base. Check your stool height and distance from keyboard before practising. Stool height: Find an average position, neither too high or too low, with the forearm sloping very slightly downwards. Distance from piano: Allow sufficient distance for the hands to move freely around the whole keyboard with a relaxed elbow. Feel the fallboard with the back of your hand. Place your feet flat on the floor....Sign in to view if you have purchased access to this content or see purchase options below.
Penelope Roskell
Penelope Roskell is equally renowned as a performer of international calibre and as an inspirational teacher and professor of piano at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She is the author of The Complete Pianist: From Healthy Technique to Natural Artistry and is the leading UK specialist in healthy piano playing. She holds a clinic at the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine for pianists with injuries and her guide to preventing and recovering from injury is available here.
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