Heavypiano

A trifecta of setbacks

Added 2021-05-18 13:44:42 +0000 UTC

As many of you know, I work full-time as a ballet pianist. Back on the 7th of May I played my last full day of ballet classes remotely over Zoom. I had been noticing odd fatigue and tension all week and had been trying to minimize it by adjusting my technique, but something in the combination of multiple classes, my keyboard, my chair height (?), and some bad technique/movement habits left me with some pretty miserable wrist pain and tension in my left hand. Thankfully I've been able to rest but am somewhat discouraged as I haven't been able to work on arrangements for the youtube channel. I'll go see a specialist next Monday and hopefully I can get some exercises that will help.

Secondly, we've had a run of humid days here in Texas. This week has rain in the forecast every day.

Which is of course why my dehumidifier decided to start leaking all over the floor last week. I took it apart and ordered some new seals which I think will fix it, but I've been waiting on these to arrive.

With the rain and broken dehumidifier, the ambient humidity has risen to 69% (nice) and while that's great for the meme reference, it's terrible for pianos. Especially when I last tuned it at 50% humidity.

All that to say that I feel like I've been kind of stuck in a trifecta of setbacks: hurt wrist, high-humidity out of tune-piano, and broken dehumidifier. I haven't forgotten your requests and have some arrangements I'm really excited to share, but I think the universe is telling me to take a break for a moment.

Hope you are all well and I hope to get back to making more videos soon.

-joshua