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Re: Double-jointed Thumb

Author: Plonk
Date: 2010-06-11 05:32

I have a double jointed left thumb and it does cause me some pain when I play. If I'm playing something which involves a lot of left thumb work, I have to stop and relax my thumb from time to time. I'm hoping that it will get better with practice, as when I was a kid it didn't bother me half as much as it does now (I'm 36 and have had a playing break for 3 years).

At the peak of my playing ability I took some lessons with a guy who plays for a well known opera orchestra (in England) and the first thing he did was try to reconstruct my hand position. There was no way on earth I could hold my clarinet the way he wanted me too and I quit my lessons with him, which unfortunately meant quitting my BMus course too (well, they threw me off it because I hadn't been to my lessons and transferred me to BA(mus). To this day I wonder if I would ever have been able to make it as a professional with this "disability".

Post Edited (2010-06-11 21:22)

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