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#1655240 - 04/05/11 06:03 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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An ocatave comfortably, a ninth to play, a tenth with extreme stretch and no hope of actually playing it.
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#1689487 - 06/02/11 07:58 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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Rachmaninoff had huge hands.... But I'm happy with mine, mind you.  Let's see...octaves are really fairly easy, I can do a ninth with a little stretching, and I could attempt a tenth with an extremely slow tempo and lots of confidence.
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#1694499 - 06/12/11 06:16 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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Registered: 06/09/11
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Barely 9, I feel disadvantaged. If only I could reach 10, it would make rolling those commonly 10 key spread chords so much easier.
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#1699922 - 06/22/11 12:54 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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a rather uncomfortable 9th
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#1707927 - 07/05/11 05:42 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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#1714882 - 07/17/11 05:11 AM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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Registered: 06/29/11
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Loc: New Zealand
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A 9th comfortably. I can reach a 10th but I need time to prepare the stretch so usually in performance I just roll those chords.
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#1716412 - 07/19/11 01:39 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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A slightly painful octave and a very painful ninth (if I want to push it)
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#1718288 - 07/21/11 07:52 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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From C to the second F ..
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#1719380 - 07/23/11 03:35 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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Registered: 07/22/11
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Simple question really. I have bigger hands I'd presume, and I've been told I have bigger hands by many people.
I can reach up to the 10th of a scale with one hand (I don't know if that's worded right, but I can reach an octave up above C, plus 2 more notes.)
How many keys can YOU reach? Is there any exercises that you know of that are PROVEN to increase finger length? Or by first hand experience?
An octave is comfortable for me. Any farther and I fudge it.
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#1832373 - 01/26/12 02:40 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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Registered: 01/24/12
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I can do a scale quite speedily in 10th's, but my left hand can do an 11th scale. I can't even stretch a 11th with my right. Strange haha 9ths are my comfortable position.
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#1833058 - 01/27/12 04:51 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: JKiff]
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Registered: 10/01/11
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AArrgghhh! Don't laugh.
I was so happy watching me and my hand grow faster than anyone else in my class. Unfortunately, it stopped growing early, and I can stretch to a tenth, but I can play comfortably only an octave.
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#1895834 - 05/12/12 04:27 PM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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Registered: 05/11/12
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Loc: Los Angeles, California
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I like going for the 1st, 8th and 10th all together with one hand
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#1898952 - 05/18/12 01:28 AM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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An octave is great, but a 9th is quite a stretch.
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#1944939 - 08/18/12 08:50 AM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: 9symphony9]
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Registered: 05/29/11
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Despite rather small hands I often use tenth cords with 5 notes for right hand, combined with octaves for left hand.
As an extreme, I´ve used 7 notes for the right hand in a chord. In a couple of arrangement I use totally 11 notes (both hands of course) in a chord.
Trying to emulate (and exaggerate) a Rachmaninovsk style.
Edited by Stefan_Banach (08/18/12 08:54 AM)
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#1948362 - 08/24/12 09:57 AM
Re: How many keys across can you stretch?
[Re: Jeffrey Preston]
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Registered: 07/28/12
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my hands are big, i can play from c3 to e4 (11 keys) and if i strech it i can go up to f4.
Edited by Digite1 (08/24/12 09:58 AM)
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