So how tall are you guys?

5'6"

5'10''

6'6"

an inch below 6'

5'6''

x

5'10

6'3"

5'7"

sounds like a survey for the length of grand pianos

Look here at post 23

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/topic/2/9505.html

well, i feel short. I'm about 5'4" or 5'5"...

Well done!!

x

5'11"

5'5"

6'3..... Ok.. Ok... 5'7

LOL......this is a funny forum......5'6" or maybe just a little over that......

I'm a tiny 5'0".

hee... i dont feel so short now(just kiddin!). 5'2''

5' 1" and shrinking...

Eleventyone.

Is that with or without shoes??

But is that metric or imperil? :p

Hey, I never said how tall I was did I.

About 5' 10" or the length of my piano when laying down!

John

6 foot 2 inches with UK size 12 feet, which makes those horrid little curved pedals on turn early 20th century uprights an absolute pain in the bum.

More important than my height, is how
pure is my character?

5'6" >_>

And agreed, 100000%

5' 8 and 3/4"

.... And this statistical data will tell us what about what???

5'8" and 1/2

5'4" Now, I feel short lol.

Hey lol don't feel so bad. I'm a teeny tiny 1.54m. That's what? 5'1? At least, according to my dad, that's 5'1. Sigh...

My hands can spread out 9-key distance (C to E)

Mine can too:)

I can take 11 keys and Im not sure how tall I am

WOW!Rach.... just wow!
Well I'm guessing you A) are pretty tall and have normally proportioned hands (B) have huge hands compared to your short body (kinda like that dude in that episode of the simpsons who has a whole speech on his hand)
or (C) can dislocate a finger on demand

approx. 1.70 m (how many feet is that ?).

But I'm still growing! Just 13 :p

I can almost do 12 keys.


Btw, can someone remove the post that was made by that Skeptopotamus thing that's still in here? Thanks

But you still haven't told us your height. You coudl also be only four feet tall with massive hands..... This image of tiny people with big hands is creeping me out.

12 keys? from C to A (almost 2 octaves)? one hand?

For my height (classified info), I have pretty big hands. Creepy huh?

I can do C-E (octave+M3rd), but can't do Bb-D (octave+M3rd). What gives?

I have some music I'd like to write that includes things like C(-1)-C0-G2-E3 (octave+double_octave_5th+M6th) in the left hand and C5-E5-G5-G7-C8-E8-G8-G9 (Cmaj_chord,another 2 octaves higher,octave) in the right hand. Any suggestions?

5'7" almost 5'8". I can take 11 keys also.

Until what age are your HANDS growing wider so you can take more keys ?

Do you mean me or Rach.3Freak?

both of you

I don't know why but that made me laugh.

5ft 10. Can only stetch 8 keys, although I can get 9 by forcing myself (not possible during a piece!).

(Have got a fairly big hand, but got short fingers)

6 foot (just right )

Can stretch 11 keys, 12 after an hour of playin

(this fact btw is completely insignificant, i just copied Euan for the sake of it)

How pure is my character? I dunno, do mind recommending on ways to measure that hanna?

It made you laugh because you are very good at avoiding the question

Really? Cool! then I'll have to find out exactly how tall I am.

Just the length of my Kawai KG-3C ...

6' 1"

Luigi

I'm about 5'7. How is this relevant to piano?

Taller people are more likely to have big hands, long fingers, long arms which give them some advantage in playing piano.

.....but we don't want to ask so direct.

I used to be just a hair over 6'2 but then I shaved my head so I'm a little shorter now.

5'8" not including hair and heels. I've listed my age and now height. If it gets to weight, I'm off... :rolleyes:

6' 2"

I'm 5'11" with size 12 feet.

5' 8"

SWM 5'11" 140lbs br/br ns ISO SWF w/BMW

My height in feet and inches is the same as my Vogel 177T. - 5'10".

I have to start thinking in Algebra word problems. I'm starting a math class on June 27th!

John

5'2" - sorely challenged.

6'8" got the scars on my head to prove it!

5'10"

6'1''.

5'8 and 1/2"

6' 5", size 15 shoe, forget about compact cars, I can't fit in one!

I'm 6'4 and 225 pounds. can't fit in much of anything

As short as a baby-grand but louder than a concert piano .

6'5 and can't fit my knees under some piano's, anyone else have this problem?

6'1.5"

5'3 and 1/2" (but I appear taller, sometimes).

hehe ppl call me shrimp lol
im 5"0

5 inches? or 5 feet? I have never seen a 5-foot shrimp, not even a lobster.

People call me toothpick. I am too short to reveal my height.

I'm 6' 1" but I look taller in real life.

lol
ooo Lisztaddict tell me - im intrigued now!

yes im only five inches, im so short im last to know when its raining

:p

5'1''

my UK foot size is 12 1/2 dont know how to express my length in inches thought we express lengths in centimeters over here

5'4''

I think for the US size, you just add 1. So you would be 13.5 (i think)

176 cm

Still going huh?

Still waiting Stormcrow... found a ruler yet?? or maybe you really ARE only four feet tall with huge hands??!!!
Kinda like this little graemlin dude only worse -

6'5"

This is actually interesting--I've seen shorter folk with huge hands, and taller folk with smaller hands--go figure.

I am 5'7" and consider myself short. I was going to say that I was the same size as my Vogel 5'4" but John beat me to it!

6'0"

5'8''

5'9"

I'm 5'8
my hands can stretch to 10 keys

6'1"

6'3''.

I can play a 9th comfortably, and stretch an eleventh. My hands are small for my size, I am told.

I`m 6'1" and I can play a ninth comfortably but no more than that.

I'm 5'5 and can play 9ths ...tenths in white keys only..so I guess my hands are big in relation to my height..

6'5, unfairly long fingers.

USA--do the long fingers offer you a wider span? Usually this has something to do with the width of the palm-I find larger hand pianists complain to me that they have more difficulty negotiating the little figures in Bach, Mozart and double notes. Octaves, no problem.

That is confidential....


SHORT!!!!!!!

6'2"
I am unable to find a piano bench which cranks up high enough so I sit on top of a cushion as well (actually it's a faux leopard skin cat bed which my black cat sniffed at once and found wanting somehow and never looked at again)

Remember--Alicia de Larrocha played it all--even Rach 3 and those difficult Spanish pieces with huge stretches.

You've posted twice .

Bulow barely reached an octave.

Dan

I am just beginning to play the piano, so I hope I can get an extra key after a lot of practice. The sad situation at the moment, however, is that I can barely reach C-D :-( How to play piano like that???

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???

i'm about 5'7" but i feel like im shrinking, is that possible

About 6', and can reach an augmented 11th, with a little bit of effort, but I'm still growing.

Pianonoob--yikes--playing 12s in pieces? So learn Rach 3rd Concerto! (I better be careful--I'm only 5'11"--shouldn't get started up with a 6'9" pianist!)

167 cm

6'1-and-a-half. I can play a 10th easily, 11th with a very light stretch and just just just a 12th if i stretch a lot, Which is more than my piano teacher, who is 6'7"

But I'm 15 and still growing!

I had a private student who was probably 5'6" who got 11ths--go figure.

Hello Sandy here... What an impressibe hand span... I read Rachmaninoff had a wide hand span too...No certain but a 10th for him? Sandy B

Sorry the spelling mistakes I should edit...I will next time...Sandy B

5'10"

5'10.5" When you're a guy under 6', every half inch takes on an added dimension.

6'5" I've probably posted this already.

5'2" and 1/2"...every little bit counts!

5' 6".

6'2

5'8" barefoot

A bit over 5'8"

5'5

6'1" - 10th comfortably.

5'5"
(hopefully right since it was a job converting from centimeters )

Heehee 5'3" but it's okay to be little bitty..

5'8" tall and easily stretch to a 9th. My glove size is Medium (ladies).

-shari

5'6"

1 march 2007: 100 kg
1 september 2007: 68 kg What??? Yes 68 kg

I feel great now.....

Johan B

6'1" can reach out to 11th

6'3" and 16 years old .

0.001105 miles tall

and I weigh 566,990.4625 decigrams.

and I can play a 10th easily

5'4" (160 cm) and 99 pounds (45 Kg). I hope I made the conversion right.
I just can play a 8th.
Definitely not a heavyweight...

5'2". The good thing about piano is, you don't have to be tall to play!!

I think I'm about 5'1"