Sonya Ardan is a graphic artist living in Novi Sad, Serbia & Montenegro. To illustrate The Craft of Piano Playing, she drew Alan Fraser’s hands using ordinary photocopy paper and pencil. She as received much praise for her work: one reader asked the author, ’’How did you get Leonardo to draw for you? I thought he’s been dead for several hundred years!’’ She and Alan Fraser plan to continue their collaboration for his next book, Honing the Pianistic Self-Image: Skeletal Based Piano Technique.

In The Craft of Piano Playing, it was necessary to reduce the size of Sonya's original drawings because of space limitations . For those of you who fell in love with her eloquent renditions of the piano-playing hand in various ’actures’, these pages present them in gloriously detailed, full-size reproductions, arranged roughly in the same order of appearance as in the book.
 

Skeletal Counterpoint: The Pylons and the Platform
 
 

Skeletality
 
 

Fingerstands
 
 

Thumb Stands

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