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20250927 - Piano / Violin (14:43) Months ago, still, I was frustratingly trying to play the violin without rosin, with a bow that had formerly been played with rosin, and I found techniques that worked, at least for around twenty minutes playing-time. Then a new viola and a new violin came in my possession that are played without rosin by me. Because the bows of these two instruments haven’t been in use for long, so far, the sound varies unwantedly sometimes on particular tones, but I am nearly sure that there won’t be complications later. And so I am jamming with the violin or the viola for ages on piano recordings of mine, at the moment, which I didn’t actually believe in anymore. Rosin would make a violin unplayable, in my case, due to a side effect of the medication, or a smaller damage on the nerves. One needs to try out the things if they suit you, and I have been trying out a lot already. Well, in this case, it’s very close to try out to play without rosin, when one has rosin on the bow ineffective. A positive side-impact is that I like the instruments more with these silent tones than a violin or viola would produce with rosin on the bow. Concretely, I just adapted myself to the handicap. New is that I am standing when I play the piano. This should give me a better condition and a kind of shield against smaller low moods. Here, at the beginning, with this new position, it feels quite airy, which is something suitable for me. In my childhood, I was a very lively individual, and it looks as if I get back very lively by physical exercise in a certain degree. Also, the little fingers are not used anymore when I play piano, due to better energy without them. Energy techniques are sensitive; typically they do not hold for very long, so that new techniques have to be found. Standing at the piano feels good and is very promising as a protection. It can only get better this way, I would say.
Since December, I have been playing much with this Digital Saxophone. One night, because I realized that I stay awake by the required breathing, the thumb of the right hand got slightly injured, but, weeks after that, it is still injured, so that I cannot play for long if I would hold it with the thumb. However, I stumbled over a trick that lets me now play for ages. A soft case for a small guitar amplifier is taken in between the saxophone and the lower stomach, and the instrument lays on this soft case that there is no need to press the saxophone away with the thumb. One needs to try out the things to see if one can work with them, and I am grateful that I have many items that belong to music equipment in my possession, which give me often very smart possibilities.
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