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i can just reach ten...damn my small hands, it makes everything so difficult 
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If I stretch, I can reach a perfect eleventh (octave plus a fourth) but that wouldn't be practical for performance. The most I would dare try to play without risking a serious cramp is a ninth, or perhaps occasionally a tenth. As far as I know, there are no ways of increasing your finger stretch, since it is largely dependent upon your hand size. I think you'll probably just hurt your hand before you increase the stretch! 
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Scales in 10ths no problem...
Scales in 11ths? .... would be do-able
Scales in 12th?.. no chance (but I can JUST stretch it in a one off).
I can comfortably play C-C-E (8va with ring finger +10th with pinkie) in my RH - which comes in handy from time to time.
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A tenth at most, if in the white keys by "cheating" by playing from the edge, putting the thumb and little finger completely under the level of the unpressed keys (hopefully you can understand), or a minor 10th from C to Eb at MOST, quite uncomfortably.
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I can comfortably play a ninth. This is where men have the adavantage: bigger hands.
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Nine ten-ish, it's kinda cool when you think about it.
I need to find something clever to put here.
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K A W A I ..... R O L A N D ......... E - M U
C A - 9 3 ......... A X - 7 ...... X B O A R D - 4 9
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10th white-white on the edge of the keys
i can do all 9ths comfortably, as well as 1-4 and 1-3 octaves.
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I can reach a 9th if I stretch, but only on the white keys. When I first started piano I could only do an octave, but doing finger stretches and stuff I guess widened my span after several years. I will never be able to reach a 10th, but that's ok I guess.
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An ocatave comfortably, a ninth to play, a tenth with extreme stretch and no hope of actually playing it.
I'm getting there--note by note.
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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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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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can do 10ths comfortably chromatically. 11ths chromatically but not really at a speed you would consider practical and only certain notes. A few i just have to do a little slide.
don't think it really gives any sort of advantage other than well you know what they say about people with big hands.
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a rather uncomfortable 9th
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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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Bach P&F G maj book I
Chopin Etude Ab major Op. 25 no. 1
Chopin Impromptu no. 1 op. 29
Bartok 3 Burlesques op. 8
Liszt Annes de Pelerinage - Sposalizio
Haydn Sonata in b minor XVI: 32
Debussy Prelude - Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir
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A slightly painful octave and a very painful ninth (if I want to push it)
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From C to the second F ..
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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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Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Mozart Sonate
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