Mine are only an octave, but my teacher can do a 13th!

Octave here too...

11th here.. what's the point of this topic? Everyone is going to say how big their hands are??

Mine are only an octave, but my teacher can do a 13th![/b]
From C to A of the next octave??

I have a 10th.

I don't have to roll the ending of the Bartok Op. 14 suite.

I can do C to E. General body proportion might have something to do with it. I'm 6'1", which is taller than average I think (at least for Chinese).

10th here too. I can take the opening chords of the Rach 2 without breaking them, though it is a "stretch", so to speak.

If a person says that he can reach a 10th, does this mean on the top of the keys or the side of the keys?

I can't imagine how big of a hand would be required to reach a 13th!

To me, it means you can play the interval reliably at whatever tempo and dynamic level you want without sounding the adjacent notes.

Exactly. Playing the opening of the Rach 2 with unbroken chords would be just too risky for me in performance. (For musical reasons, they should be broken anyway, IMO.) My hands aren't that[/b] big. Whilst I can take a 10th with either hands at slow speed, they have to be broken at higher speeds.

I would say from C to ?? 5'6" and one octave only.

I'm glad I have no difficulty playing big spans, jumps etc.. Rach 2 unbroken chords are easy thank god.

I can just scrape a very stretched 10th - certainly couldn't play a series of 10ths without adding an unintentional 9th or two

Watching someone like Marcus Roberts at the keyboard consumes me with jealousy - his hands give the impression that he's playing on a miniature keyboard. I reckon he could easily stretch two octaves - seeing him play an octave with thumb and 4th finger coming down perpendicular to the keybed made me do a double-take. That can't be an octave!



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*cough cough* .. no :rolleyes:

IMO :p

You should start a thread about that and watch all hell break loose!

NEWS FLASH!!! I've grown! My parents and friends can agree that I have been getting taller. Yesterday I noticed... HEY I can stretch a 9th! I'm not just c to shining c anymore! I'm c to shining d!!!

I love the fact that I am still growing

Matt

hey Debussy great .. did you discover this yesterday??

Gather your gang .. and I'll gather mine

(tip: let us open a poll on it, a kind of yes/no poll .. and see who will pull this thing )

And remember it was you against me in the first place

I can stretch an 11th in both hands but can't just put one down without splashing a few notes.

I love playing the Franck Violin Sonata and the Prelude, Chorale, et Fugue. Tenths galore.

Not to mention Franck's Prelude, Aria et Final. 12ths galore.

Indeed, and what an underrated piece! I've been meaning to get to it for a few years now. In some ways I find it more musically satisfying than the PCF.

I totally agree with you! For the life of me, I cannot understand why this magnificent triptych is so seldom played. Someday I would love to tackle it, though I don't really have the hands for it. I did learn the PCF several years back.

5'6" and a good reliable 9, sometimes a very strained 10

10th, 11th if really stretch hard

11th. No idea why this is important. I have never needed more than a 10th and rarely more than an octave.

I can reach an octave with my first and second finger.

I think I can do a tenth... but I like to think my hands still have growing to do.

5'1" and arthritic fingers - an octave is my limit. Fortunately that's all I've needed so far.

Look at the chords at the beginning of the original La Campanella. I can hit tenths but I can't play those chords.

This guy hits an 11th with ease:



I can do a tenth fairly well on black keys, quite a bit more difficult on white. I tend to think I have great piano hands, though, octaves are super natural to play.

My left hand can easily take the 10ths at the opening of Rach 2, but I cannot do those in the Ab minor version of La Campanella. (I just tried. )

From what I have read about Liszt (just covering the 10ths at the close of the slow movement of Beethoven's Opus 106 without breaking), he certainly wouldn't have managed those 10ths in La Campanella either.

Can anyone here take the left hand 10th's in the 6th Rhapsody (Presto section- measure 57) without breaking them? Argerich would seem to be doing that in her recording (which I've listened to a billion times), yet I've heard that her hands are not particularly large. She must be breaking them at supersonic speed.