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I haven't noticed any structural changes in my hands. However, I've had a number of people mention how defined the muscles of my forearm are. Not large, just very defined, as these muscles would affect wrist movement. I know some of it is related to the fact that I'm also very lean and thin, which makes it much easier to see overall muscle definition. Ditto. Except the muscle along the 5th-finger edge of my palm grew. Also maybe the muscle between thumb and 2nd finger. "...I have the impression that my fingers have become thinner, more bony, after I started to practice the piano again..."
This happens to everyone who gets older, JanVan, except, maybe, people who have very fat hands.
... Are you sure? The opposite has happened to me.
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Since I am a piano technician/rebuilder and an amateur pianist-my fingers have gotten thicker and my grip stays strong for my age-because of using tools both powered and not. Also I have calluses thick enough to be able to take hot potatoes from the oven without gloves.
When my hands tire from holding tools, a piano playing break relieves the tightness.
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Yuppers, your hands will get more muscular and articulate - if you're doing it right...
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The only bad change I have experienced was after practicing many hours of Godowsky-Chopin pieces, after which I noted that my thumb and little finger of my left hand had switched places. ... So no more Godowsky for me. That's scary. Was it something too advanced? I know students can actually do damage to their hands/arms by taking on things that are beyond their technique. My "wake-up call" was when I started to grow a 6th finger on the side of each hand when practicing a Chopin etude overly zealously. When I started acting on the teacher's advice (instead of just saying, "yeah, uh-huh, right" and then forgetting about it during the week) the extra digits began to be resorbed back into the hand. Proper technique is *so* important. Well, I am so glad to hear I am not the only one who has suffered something like that.
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The only bad change I have experienced was after practicing many hours of Godowsky-Chopin pieces, after which I noted that my thumb and little finger of my left hand had switched places. ... So no more Godowsky for me. That's scary. Was it something too advanced? I know students can actually do damage to their hands/arms by taking on things that are beyond their technique. My "wake-up call" was when I started to grow a 6th finger on the side of each hand when practicing a Chopin etude overly zealously. When I started acting on the teacher's advice (instead of just saying, "yeah, uh-huh, right" and then forgetting about it during the week) the extra digits began to be resorbed back into the hand. Proper technique is *so* important. Well, I am so glad to hear I am not the only one who has suffered something like that. The Chopin études have been known for their unique effects on the fingers from the earliest days: the contemporary critic Ludwig Rellstab (renowned for giving a certain Beethoven piano sonata the nickname by which it's now universally known) wrote: "Those who have twisted fingers may cure them by practising these Études; but those who have not should not play them, not unless they have a surgeon handy."
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