{"id":1166,"date":"2011-08-10T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2011-08-10T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T04:30:38","slug":"strengthening-fingers-with-clothes-pegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/strengthening-fingers-with-clothes-pegs\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening Fingers with Clothes Pegs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I purchased some medium sized art pegs.\u00a0 They’re about half the size of a clothes peg but if you can’t get these, a clothes peg will work fine.<\/p>\n

The student needs to make a curved ‘Pacman’ shape with their thumb and first finger on the peg (has to be that curved ‘C’ shape for this to be effective).\u00a0 Then they do 4 ‘taps’ with\u00a0each finger on the peg.\u00a0 The resistance the peg creates will develop stronger first joints\/fingers.\u00a0 I used the smaller pegs so that there wasn’t as much resistance for little fingers because we don’t want to injure any joints, just gradually strengthen them.<\/p>\n

I also assigned my piano students to do this exercise and it works quite well.<\/p>\n

For those who manage to break their peg in the first week, I tell them to raid Mum’s peg basket.<\/p>\n

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It could be what these pegs are for as well.<\/p>\n

I also use plain wooden pegs (new ones) to hold music book pages in place.\u00a0 I keep some in my violin case to prevent air conditioning blowing my pages away.\u00a0 I think I learned that trick many years ago in an orchestra\u00a0I played in.\u00a0 We painted our pegs black back then, so they wouldn’t stand out, but I don’t have black paint at home at the moment and can’t quite be bothered.\u00a0 A lot of my older violin students now do the same thing!<\/p>\n

These ones in the picture are actually for sale from this site: http:\/\/www.inclusiveprograms.com.au\/kaleidoscope-products.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh yup, they’re ‘page pegs’ – after reading their description \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I purchased some medium sized art pegs.\u00a0 They’re about half the size of a clothes peg but if you can’t get these, a clothes peg will work fine. The student needs to make a curved ‘Pacman’ shape with their thumb and first finger on the peg (has to be that curved ‘C’ shape for this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,21,32],"tags":[88,91,92,94,107,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}