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5'7" (Hands can take a 10th)

True, but I do not believe that recording stuck around the catalogue very long. As far as I know, it has never been reissued, and it never pops up on anyone's short (or long for that matter) list of great Rach 3's.

5'10" (Hands span a 10th comfortably, and a 12th, if I drop my wrists and really stretch)

180 cm

I can reach a tenth from the outer edges of the keys without feeling pain in the wrist.

5'8" - 10th, 11th if I stretch hard enough

How come you all have such large hands!?!?

Good stretching exercises!!

hmm, why not


6'4''
I can reach a thirteenth c4 to a6

...and I thought that was going to help me play the piano. It's just more noose from which to be hung.

So Bryan, have you had any trouble with the descending octave glissando in the last mvt of Beethoven's Waldstein or near the end of Balakirev's Islamey ascending octave glissando in octaves? I actually play the Waldstein octave glissando as regular octaves--lightly and legato--as long as the action isn't terribly heavy.

168 cm /5'6", can uncomfortably reach a ninth - and the Toyota Yaris is very fine, no trouble minding the head, enough space for knees etc. :p

I'm 5'9".

My hands are rather square - some people might even say my fingers appear short.

However I can easily span a 10th (as long as both notes are either white keys or black keys).

OK Jason, they can 'take' a 10th, but can they dish them out?

So can I.....with 2 hands.

Although I know about the technique you refer to, I am not advanced enough to have confronted it in the above works or any others. Although I've been making daily progress, I am sure it will be a couple more years before I will encounter that particular problem.

When I improvise, I have much fun, however, with octave and tenth glissandi. It's an easy fit, assuming there aren't too many accidentals.

To be honest, I just don't understand how one can play glissandi so lightly. I'm a bit of a banger. (the one idiom where this is bad LOL)

I would think you should play lots of Rachmaninoff--the monster chords should fit like a glove--compared to the hands of Alicia deLarrocha, who played the Rach 3! I would enjoy watching you play the Chopin Octave Etude and the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody no. 6--and definitely the octave varioation in the Brahms/Paganini Book 1!

Hand yoga??
maybe we are all just stretchy people

Wow, haven't been here for a while... So you still want to know eh? Well then, since your so persistent here goes... To aswer your question I'm still growing, I’m currently 6’1 ½ weigh in at 208 lbs.

YAY finally i know... my mind is at rest that there aren't too many freakish huge handed people out there.
Currently 6'1 1/2 and still growing... careful or you'll turn out like my friend, he's 6'6 !!! and I have no idea how far he can stretch

5'3..yeah...being petite sucks for real

6'9"

6'9" and I should mention I can play a 12th in a song and reach a 13th.

My problem is that my fingers are wide enough that I have a hard time playing in between the black keys. Any pointers on that?

glue paddle pop sticks to your fingers when you play???