I think the key thing (pun intended) is that the piano is large and therefore people using it move their hands to accommodate, whereas a keyboard is small enough to reach all the relevant parts while not moving your hands but instead stretching the fingers/twisting the wrist, which is great for maximizing typing speed but not for minimizing RSI. It's been pet theory of mine for a while that the reason I don't have RSI despite typing a lot every day is that my technique is absolutely horrendous; I never learned to type properly, so I move my hands a bit while typing and don't always use the same finger for the same key, depending on the surrounding letters, which makes me a relatively slow typer (although not as much as you might think!) but seems to have prevented me from ever getting RSI.
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[ 20.9 ms ] story [ 376 ms ] threadWhat is it about computer keyboards that are so bad? How can a piano be that different?