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Will Fingers Have To Weaken With Age?
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Ruphus
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 Will Fingers Have To Weaken With Age?
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Many a times now have I read of older players who switched to softer string tension.
Something I wouldn´t understand, as being used to dismiss anything less than high or super high tension, for medium let alone low tension to me having felt much too sluggish.
There have been times that I would play flamenco technique even on steelers, which even PdL, when he tried such out at one time, experienced as butchering fingers.
Something I´d certainly quickly regret if doing nowadays.
For, as of late I notice to have periods in between when high tension suddenly feels hard, or like last night, my finger tips feeling a bit like pounded steak meat.
( Possibly, just as it seams to get gradually harder to maintain a belly six pack that used to stay in place so easily until some years ago.)
What do you think?
Is it that, despite of in general pretty firm hand grip, with age finger tissue getting squashy nonetheless?
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Date Dec. 21 2010 11:51:36
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Ruphus
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RE: Will Fingers Have To Weaken With... (in reply to Ruphus)
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I was questioning about tissue.
Tissue hypothetically getting slack / soft and with that sensibility for high tension strings.
Wile some responses here seem to beforehand neglect such physical development of the body, in forums for classical guitar posts can be found in which people mention that they switched to lower tension strings with age.
And I have the feeling as if there was an encreasing sensibility going on with myself.
Only that I am not sure whether the phenomenon might be bound to personal side-effects, which is that my fingers used to be toughened up by working as dental technician ( where you regularly grab hot and edgy work pieces, hit milling heads etc. ), as well as through practicing Wing Tsun kung fu full time ( where your hands and arms are being strained as well ).
So, as my case differes in so far that anyway there is a change supposed to happen from times when a pot of boiling water could spill over lower arms and hands without injury occuring, while meanwhile ( without dental work and only little WT ) becoming sensitive to even just the heat of holding a hot glassful of tea, I wondered in how far there is a general change of sensitivity and because of age.
For one, I don´t think to be suffering under arthritis, and likely neither the other players mentioned.
Besides, who thinks an indiviudal player like Paco de Lucia should serve as general indicator, is probably at least informed about this artist´s chronological choice of string tension, I guess.
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Date Dec. 24 2010 11:12:25
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Ruphus
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RE: Will Fingers Have To Weaken With... (in reply to a_arnold)
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ORIGINAL: a_arnold
I find my biggest age-related problem (other than dying) is in learning new music. It takes longer to memorize it than it used to.
Though ten years younger, I face such problem with languages.
Before, taking language challenges on the fly, meanhwile things seem to have changed considerably.
Currently, for over three years now in a new place I am still struggling for the right words. Let alone the black-outs in between when several languages vocabulary collide inside the head while seeking for an individual idiom of the language currently mainly in use. Especially right after switches from a language to another.
Something that wouldn´t occure until some years back, when jumping back and forth used to be seamless.
Not to mention of times long ago when there was the ability to learn a complete language including pronounciation in upwards from 4 months.
Impossible today.
There seems a change in that operating the grey lumpy obviously is getting slower ( since age of between 18 to 23 speed wise descending anyway ), while superordinate cognition and associative connecting still progressing. ... Until maybe another two decades ( if earth still be reeling then ) at the most, when probably things start going down the hill alltogether.
( Sure, do there happen to be exceptions with the one or other individual, but I don´t count with myself being all to synaptic with over ~ 70 or such.)
Even though latest survey shown a bit sobering in regard of in how far agility and brain work could effectively be prolonging functional status, aside of some distinct supports like e.g. omega3 or mnemonic practicing, to my understaning one healthy thing should be of first priority:
Passion.
Being curious, as best thing one could do.
Keeness and aesthete being leading factors in nous maintenance.
Ruphus
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Date Dec. 25 2010 22:10:31
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