Canadian pianist Alan Fraser's second volume on piano technique and musicianship extrapolates the foundation themes of The Craft of Piano Playing, showing how, having established the skeletal structure and function of the hand, one can develop its flexibility and potency even further. This new series of exercises not only increases the hand's capacity for consummate virtuosity and a wide range of orchestrational colors at the keyboard, but also integrates these new abilities more fully by exploring the profound relationship of empowerment between hand and body. Honing the pianistic self-image takes up where The Craft of Piano Playing left off in the development of Alan Fraser's comprehensive piano technique. Where Craft focused on the foundational security of the hand's innate structure and function, Honing shows you how to take that structure up into a new, sophisticated state -- unstable equilibrium -- to gain an even finer control over the colours and emotion you produce at the piano. - Publisher.