August 14, 200817 yr Hmm, I can only reach an octave comfortably and a 9th takes a lot of effort. Is there any chance that this will impede me from becoming a professional pianist?
August 15, 200817 yr of course theres a chance. :) but the chance is probably lower for you than for other people. :(
August 15, 200817 yr I can play a 10th with little strain, which is nice, because blocked 10th minor chords just make me melt.
August 15, 200817 yr of course theres a chance. :) but the chance is probably lower for you than for other people. :( Well, that really isn't encouraging... The only instrument I'm decent at is the piano and I was planning on going into a career involving it.
August 15, 200817 yr Well, that really isn't encouraging... The only instrument I'm decent at is the piano and I was planning on going into a career involving it. You will be fine... My piano teacher can only just reach the octave, and she's given concerts all over the place. Sure having bigger hands helps...but it's not everything :) Just have confidence in your abilities.
August 15, 200817 yr It will certainly influence your chance, but there are many, many factors which will influence it way more, so I wouldn't worry. If an eighteen-year-old Django Reinhardt had asked you for advice and said, "I have only two fingers on my left hand--will it impede my chance of becoming a professional guitarist?" What would you say? Or Thomas Quasthoff, who has no arms or legs. But they both succeeded because they're awesome musicians. And they were (are) actually missing body parts--you just have smallish hands. Think of all the people with huge hands who are not pianists...
August 21, 200817 yr 11th comfortably in the left hand; 12th if I can set it up. 10th in the right hand, though. My son is 4 weeks old and already has bigger hands than I do...
August 27, 200817 yr 11th comfortably in the left hand; 12th if I can set it up. 10th in the right hand, though.My son is 4 weeks old and already has bigger hands than I do... 4 weeks! :horrified:.... and he can reach an 11th.... how big is this child? Surely, you must mean 4 years...
August 27, 200817 yr 4 weeks!:horrified: .... and he can reach an 11th.... how big is this child? Maybe he just has freakishly huge hands. I can't even reach an 11th in my wildest dreams. A 10th is a stretch for me.
August 29, 200817 yr 4 weeks! :horrified:.... and he can reach an 11th.... how big is this child? Surely, you must mean 4 years... :P Y'all are hilarious. He's 4 weeks old (5 weeks old now). Of course his hands aren't literally bigger than mine. But in terms of proportion to the rest of his body, he wil be able to reach a 12th by 4th grade. :thumbsup:
August 30, 200817 yr Of course his hands aren't literally bigger than mine. But in terms of proportion to the rest of his body, he wil be able to reach a 12th by 4th grade. :thumbsup: Wow, a span of a 12th by a 4th grader... and all I can reach at my age is a damn octave :angry:
November 11, 200817 yr i can stretch a 10th (maximum) for my left hand, and a 9th on my right hand... oh wow my hands are so small... i guess my hands werent meant for playing piano...
November 11, 200817 yr I can hit an 11th in my left and 10th in my right without setting it up. If I stretch and have plenty of time, I can hit a 12th in my left, but still only 10th in my right. Of course this is white to white keys. White/black key combinations are different, and I haven't actually tried. Even if I can hit a large interval, I will often roll them slightly anyway. No use killing my hands at my young age.
January 4, 200917 yr Comfortably Right hand: a 9th Left hand: a 10th Stretching Right hand: a 10th Left hand: a 11th
January 4, 200917 yr I can do a 10th fairly easily in both hands on my Yamaha Grand. No hand stretches any further than the other. I can stretch to an 11th in both hands but that is pushing it. I can definitely not do any 12ths.
January 4, 200917 yr Apparently I have pretty big hands... both my hands can stretch 11ths on the keys (comfortably) and 12ths off the keys, and my left hand can stretch a bit further and nearly reach a 13th........but that's just 2 notes.. I can do 10th chords with a bit of a stretch (never tried 11th chords but don't think I could)
January 4, 200917 yr I have TINY HANDS. Yeargh. So frustrating. About an octave on each, that's it. I discovered how annoying it is this morning when I was trying to play a chorale on piano and realized that there was a chord I just couldn't play...
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