Yesterday I did a bunch of work around the old home place, including getting rid of some brush & yanking out Japanese knotweed (very invasive.)
This morning I discovered my carpal tunnel wrist is killing me, so on goes the wrist brace.
Later, while practicing my banjo, I was terrible. I just could not get my left hand fingering right, all the time muting strings and generally being sloppy. I couldn’t understand it and I was getting rather annoyed. After about 20 minutes of struggle, I finally realized it wasn’t my left hand that was causing the problem.
It was the wrist brace on my right hand that was muting the strings!
Doh !
One of these days I will have a T-shirt made that says “Stoopid R Us.”
I guess I’ll be smart & rest the wrist for a day or two before muting my banjo again.
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