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The finger-weights™ History

In 1999 a mid-life amateur guitar player was having difficulty getting pure tones when using his pinky and ring fingers. He stacked 5 pennies and taped them to the top of each finger on his fretting hand using electrical tape. Over the next few months he did some research and found that musicians had been taping coins to their fingers for years in an attempt to strengthen the muscles necessary to play their instrument. The additional mass on each finger resulted in cleaner notes almost immediately.

So he had an idea. He set out to develop practice finger "rings" to be used real time during training and warm-ups... like a baseball player warms up with a weight donut on their bat. Two criterion - adjustable weight and universal fit. Further digging told him he was not the first person to come up with this idea. There were previous attempts dating back to 1804 - long before weight training of any kind was popular, before the internet, and before there were flexible materials like we have today.