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Originally Posted by breakingnews
That's probably the worst thing about instruments - if you stop playing for a considerable amount of time, the blisters and callouses and such come back SO quickly and twice as painfully.
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I had a friend in graduate school who maintained that the harsichord was the best instrument in this respect, because so little force was required to activate the keys.
With respect to clarinet playing, it's not really true of my fingers (though a REALLY REALLY long layoff makes the weight of the instrument seem much increased), but it's for damn sure true of the lips.