The physiological mechanics of piano technique

an experimental study of the nature of muscular action as used in piano playing, and of the effects thereof upon the piano key and the piano tone

by Otto Ortmann

1962 395 pages eng

Published in 1929, at a time when pedagogic understanding of the mechanical requirements of piano playing and of the pianist's apparatus for meeting them was founded upon barely more than intuitively appealing hunches, *The Physiological Mechanics of Piano Technique*, together with his preceding *Ph…