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Tag: Injury

When It Hurts to Play Flute

March 20, 2024
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| Edition 11 - March 2024, Flute Making and Repair, USA

Ergonomic Aids That Can Help the Pain By Erik Nugent Everyone’s hands are different. We all have different length fingers, thumbs, span of the reach from thumb to pinky, width of fingers and palms, and thickness of wrists. Flute makers have a hard enough time trying to design a flute that is ergonomically comfortable for most players with normal…

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Recovering from an injury

December 20, 2023
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| Edition 10 - December 2023, Physiology, Portugal

A retrospective around a flutist’s individual experience By Patrícia Fernandes Pires It’s not uncommon to see a musician suffer from injuries related to their playing. In 2017 I also suffered a very serious injury in my right hand that led me to stop playing and interrupt my master studies. When a musician gets injured, it presents an existential threat….

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