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Bit of Fun. Biggest Single Chord? #3073624 01/25/21 01:50 AM
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 95 UK D daoc2009 OP Full Member
OP daoc2009 Full Member D Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 95 UK	Hi, Just for fun what is the biggest single chord youve come across without rolling? this one does it for me https://youtu.be/r3cxRbi-Ik0 makes the big chord at the end of traumerei seem easy or the opening of the rach 2, if you dont believe me try it! E G C E G all in the right hand. Thanks! Daoc2009

Re: Bit of Fun. Biggest Single Chord? daoc2009 #3073714 01/25/21 09:36 AM
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pianoloverus Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member Joined: May 2001 Posts: 36,800 New York City	"Big" could be interpreted as widest spread of notes OR largest number of notes.

Re: Bit of Fun. Biggest Single Chord? pianoloverus #3073718 01/25/21 09:41 AM
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SouthernZephyr PW Gold Subscriber Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member S Joined: May 2015 Posts: 12,370 At the back of the North Wind	Originally Posted by pianoloverus "Big" could be interpreted as widest spread of notes OR largest number of notes. Wasn’t the question of what ‘big’ meant clarified by the example in the post ? Widest spread.

Re: Bit of Fun. Biggest Single Chord? daoc2009 #3073958 01/25/21 05:56 PM
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Cheeto717 1000 Post Club Member C Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,212 Pennsylvania	Alkan had some monster stretches rivaling rachmaninoff "I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well." J.S. Bach

Re: Bit of Fun. Biggest Single Chord? daoc2009 #3074428 01/26/21 05:01 PM
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piano-organist Full Member P Joined: Mar 2020 Posts: 28	This is probably not what you had in mind, but there is an unrolled chord consisting of 16 notes in Ives's Concord Sonata.

Re: Bit of Fun. Biggest Single Chord? daoc2009 #3074454 01/26/21 05:56 PM
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BDB Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member B Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 32,060 Oakland	Check out The Tides of Manaunaun, or Tiger, among other pieces by Henry Cowell. Semipro Tech

Re: Bit of Fun. Biggest Single Chord? daoc2009 #3074487 01/26/21 07:13 PM
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George Smith Full Member G Joined: Jan 2018 Posts: 126 Austin, TX	I don't think you can top the ending of P.D.Q. Bach's incomparable Trance and Dental Etudes.

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