Since I have played regularly in 4 continents over the past 30 years, I have had the opportunity to learn and appreciate the points of view of colleagues from all over the world, from the Chinese school to the Japanese, American and European ones.
There are, as expected, many different points of view, both on the actual technique (the setting, the type of touch, the length of the nails etc.), and on the general “vision” of the instrument.
Not all of them lead to equally appreciable results & there are some techniques that are objectively worse than others (those that result in a dirty, out of control sound or create tension that results in back pain or tendonitis), but ignoring those, there remain in my opinion several quite different approaches to technique that, while all valid, reflect a different general “vision” of the instrument.… More