Freeing the Caged Bird DVD from Barbara Lister-Sink
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“Keyboard playing-related injury prevention is the theme of this well-produced, highly informative video. Anatomy (both yours and the piano’s), tension avoidance, and a training program for optimal body position and usage are among the topics. Plus, the clips of Ms. Lister-Sink performing are really impressive.”
– Keyboard Magazine
November 2003

“In a brilliantly conceived and produced videotape, Lister-Sink provides a thoughtful guide showing how to develop a piano technique that springs from good coordination of the whole body with the piano...she is abetted by brilliant production techniques.”

—Piano and Keyboard
January/February, 1997

“This splendidly produced method on video should be studied by all teachers and performers anxious to learn how to prevent injuries in their own playing as well as in working with their young pupils.”

—Carol Grindea
European Piano Teachers Association Piano Journal
Spring, 1998

“A well-organized and comprehensive video for teachers of all students that is both easy and enjoyable to listen to. Excellent for students needing to work on technique, but the video does require the monitoring of a good teacher. A real asset to the field of piano pedagogy. Audience: pianists of all ages and levels, pedagogy and applied teachers.”

—The American Music Teacher
December/January, 1997/98

“This extremely well-produced video provides a wealth of teaching material for pianists covering a wide range of repertoire beautifully played by Lister-Sink and her students...Lister-Sink is superb both as a player and [in] her ability to demonstrate the common technical faults of pianists...This video provides an impressive study guide for any pianist...I do not know the price but, considering the wealth of material and excellent performances from Lister-Sink and her students, it is sure to be worth every penny.”

—Statnews
Society for the Teachers of Alexander Technique, London
January, 1998

“Barbara Lister-Sink offers an articulate, professionally produced video on the fundamentals of coordination, what athletes call basic form, that allows for hours of practice without injury.”

—Clavier
November, 1997

“Pianists...should view this video with an eye towards incorporating aspects of her ‘system’ into their own technical repertory, thus avoiding some of the pitfalls common to so many pianists. This video is a sensible addition to piano-method collections in music libraries, especially those at institutions that support piano performance and/or pedagogy programs.”

—Notes (National Music Librarians)
June, 1997

“This is the tape we have been waiting for; a perfectly lucid exposition of the necessary conditions for coordination and their application to piano playing, persuasively presented through a logically constructed programme. And always musical! Every piano teacher should buy it and beat a path to your door for the ‘hands on’ experience which you rightly point out is so necessary.”

— Harold Taylor, author, Manchester, England
The Pianist's Talent

“It is beautifully and artistically accomplished in a very professional manner. The points you make are very clearly organized, important, logical and should be of great benefit to pianists everywhere.”

— Reginald Gerig, pianist and author
Famous Pianists and Their Technique



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