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Mine are only an octave, but my teacher can do a 13th!
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11th here.. what's the point of this topic? Everyone is going to say how big their hands are??
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Mine are only an octave, but my teacher can do a 13th! From C to A of the next octave?? 
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I have a 10th. I don't have to roll the ending of the Bartok Op. 14 suite. 
"If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him." (John Holt) www.pianoped.comwww.youtube.com/user/UIPianoPed
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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).
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10th here too. I can take the opening chords of the Rach 2 without breaking them, though it is a "stretch", so to speak.
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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!
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Originally posted by remline:
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? To me, it means you can play the interval reliably at whatever tempo and dynamic level you want without sounding the adjacent notes.
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Originally posted by packa:
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 big. Whilst I can take a 10th with either hands at slow speed, they have to be broken at higher speeds.
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I would say from C to ?? 5'6" and one octave only.
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I'm glad I have no difficulty playing big spans, jumps etc.. Rach 2 unbroken chords are easy thank god.
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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! ![[Linked Image]](http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/4736/robertsbr3.th.jpg) (click for big)
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Originally posted by argerichfan:
(For musical reasons, they should be broken anyway, IMO.) *cough cough* .. no :rolleyes: IMO :p
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Originally posted by Bassio: Originally posted by argerichfan:
(For musical reasons, they should be broken anyway, IMO.) *cough cough* .. no :rolleyes: IMO :p You should start a thread about that and watch all heck break loose!
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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
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Originally posted by Debussy20: 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??
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Originally posted by argerichfan: Originally posted by Bassio: Originally posted by argerichfan:
(For musical reasons, they should be broken anyway, IMO.) *cough cough* .. no :rolleyes: IMO :p 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
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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. 
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Originally posted by Brendan: I love playing the Franck Prelude, Chorale, et Fugue. Tenths galore. Not to mention Franck's Prelude, Aria et Final. 12ths galore.
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