{"id":5137,"date":"2023-01-28T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/unkategorisiert\/children-at-the-piano\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:15:15","slug":"children-at-the-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/magazine\/children-at-the-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Children at the piano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Children&#8217;s sitting posture at the piano is adjusted in the same way as adult players.<\/p>\n\n<p>The child sits on the piano bench, but only on the front half. The thighs do not rest on the seat surface.<\/p>\n\n<p>Slide the piano bench close enough to the piano so that your knees are just below the front edge of the keys.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now adjust the height of the piano bench so that the elbows are slightly higher than the keys, but only a few centimeters. The back must be upright and stretched and the upper arms must hang down vertically.<\/p>\n\n<p>If the child now sits upright and raises his forearms, his fingers will lie on the white keys in front.<\/p>\n\n<p>But &#8211; the feet are now unfortunately hanging in the air. We definitely need to change that, because the feet need to have a flat and firm support so that the child can bend forward while playing.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Footrest<\/h4>\n\n<p>The easiest way to do this is with a <a href=\"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/pedal-bank\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/pedalbank\/\">footrest<\/a>, which you can easily make yourself. You should build them right away so that the height is adjustable between 6 cm and 20 cm in small increments.<\/p>\n\n<p>The foot bench is positioned so that the thighs are inclined downwards by about 15\u00b0 &#8211; 20\u00b0 and the lower legs are vertical.<\/p>\n\n<p>Please remember that your child is growing and check the settings regularly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we best support the great ones of tomorrow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glissando-piano.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}