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Todays question from a viewer is, Can You Play the Piano While Wearing Gloves That sounds like a silly question, but I started thinking about it.

What can you do about that Can you play the piano with gloves on Well, in advance of this video, I went out to my car and sure enough I had a pair of gloves there.

So this is going to be an experiment for all of us watching, as well as me.

I remember as a kid just walking by the piano when I had my winter gloves on, and I was surprised that I could play But that was a lot of years ago when I had the hands of a child.

You can watch the accompanying video performance.).

I was shocked that I could do it The gloves dont really add that much mass to your fingers in terms of hitting surrounding keys.

If youre somebody with big hands and fat fingers, the gloves might be such that you wont be able to fit your fingers between the black keys.

Typically, you want somewhere between 48 60 grams of down weight.

Of course the lower notes on a piano are harder to push down than the higher notes.

So, the action doesnt have the same weight throughout the keyboard.

But, generally, a piano should be somewhere in that 48 60 gram zone.

A piano that has 65 70 grams of down weight in the middle register is a heavy piano.

We have had some pianos with heavy actions that didnt feel heavy.

For example, lets say youre playing a 9 foot concert grand piano with bright voicing and a heavy action in a very small, live room.

If you play that piano in that room, you will feel like you barely have to touch the keys to get a big sound.

Lets say youre playing a small piano in a big room that has carpet, drapes, and soft furniture absorbing all the sound.

Youre working so hard to get sound out that it feels heavy to you So, theres more to action weight than you might think.

I will say this: If your piano action is extremely heavy, you could possibly do hand damage.

Secondly, if a piano is really light, lets say in the low 40s, its almost impossible to get very fast repetition because you dont have any weight to overcome the friction of the action.

Or conversely, if you have a small grand piano in a school or a church in a big auditorium everyones pounding the heck out of it trying to get the sound out.

This will wear out the piano quickly, and the piano will produce an ugly, harsh sound.

So its very important to consider the acoustics in your room, as well as the weight of the action.

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