“    This DVD has literally changed my playing and my life. After several years of searching for answers regarding how to play the piano and organ with greater ease, I was fortunate enough to come across Lister-Sink's informative website, www.freeingthecagedbird.com. Barbara Lister-Sink has something extremely wonderful and unique to offer keyboard players of all ages and levels. She is, first and foremost, a consummate musician who practices that which she preaches. Her technique is something to be envied by even the greatest virtuosos in the field. And best of all, she's codified this technique into a rational, step-by-step, scientifically informed method that ensures the highest results. Of course, since a task as complicated as playing the piano involves one's overall alignment and state of muscles, it can't be learned by watching a DVD. Learning them requires a step-by-step, hands-on, systematic approach--from the simplest coordinations and most fundamental levels of sound production, to the most complex kinetic patterns. However, just one viewing of "Freeing the Caged Bird" is sure to open the eyes of most piano teachers and students. She is one of the world's most gifted pedagogues in the field of injury-prevention and well-coordinated keyboard technique, and it would behoove any serious keyboard player, especially those injured or feeling held back by malcoordination, to get this DVD.    ”