I can do about a 9th, or a 10th if necessary. I know I have HUGE hands lol.

Well I might be able to do a tenth. Lol. :P But no further! ;)

I can easily go a 9th... If i really really REALLY try, I can almost get a tenth... but i have to bring my hand down to the side of the piano or else i'll hit other keys.

a tenth would be to hard for me to play in music though

Originally posted by Starwind@May 24 2004, 03:21 PM
I can easily go a 9th... If i really really REALLY try, I can almost get a tenth... but i have to bring my hand down to the side of the piano or else i'll hit other keys.

a tenth would be to hard for me to play in music though
Same here...I usually have to stretch for a ninth...I guess my hands weren't really meant for piano playing...so I think I'll stick with the flute... :heh:

I can get a tenth if I seriously try... And I mean seriously try...

Wow, this is weird - my left hand can stretch to a 9th but the right hand can only make it to the 8th! Must be all the stretching I have to do for the violin ;)

a 10th is my max ^^;

10 notes for me ~

Ooh, but my left hand *is* slightly bigger than my right... *tries on the keyboard*.. nope, still only 10.

I can do a 9th, but I have to stretch to get a 10th.

My fingers are so weird they're really long and thin, like a spider. :lol:

Left :: 9th
Right :: 10th

9 on both hands, but I really have to stretch with my left hand... poor thing, it's so neglected.

9 is comfortable, and 10 is manageable (for both hands)

I guess I have good piano hands, but I wish they were more like a guy's hands (I use a women's glove for fencing)

9th easy ten is sort of hard but if I really strech I can do 11 (I guess I have long fingers) if I push down all the notes in between I can strech (spelling???) 12
8 is really easy and that is good for lots of the songs I play.

ehhh i can reach 9 easily with my left hand and i can also reach 9 with my right...but with some difficulty ^^; curse my tiny asian hands! T_T lol

Originally posted by kage no tenshi@May 28 2004, 01:31 PM
8 is really easy and that is good for lots of the songs I play.
Yeah, I play music with a lot of octaves in them, my piano teacher wants to "work my advantage"... <_<
Although I can&#39;t really see any kind of advantage lol.

only 9 if i really try... before I thought octaves were hard enough, but practice... it&#39;s ok now.. i need to stretch 10ths for violin anyway... so lots of practice at stretching my tiny hands...

Spoon says 11 is a lot :mellow:

Originally posted by Angelic@Jul 12 2004, 05:12 PM
Spoon says 11 is a lot :mellow:
Yup X_X

I reach from C - F. If I play something though, I won&#39;t bother go over an octave.

10 keys, thats it

u people can do 10 when i can barely do 8&#33; i have small hands&#33; and guess what??? im learning how to play all of Fur Elise&#33; after i practice it my hands ache&#33;

Like everyone else, to the tenth on a good day.

WindF2joker, you can do 10ths on the violin?&#33; That means you can play Paganini&#39;s Caprice 24&#33; :P

right hand: 9th easily, 10th kinda

left hand: 9th easily, 10th easily, 11th..managable

<.< my left hand is very big cuz i play so much studies

I can do 10th with little effort, but 11th is impossible :P

I can reach a 9 comfortably with both hands . . . but for me, stretching isn&#39;t as important as agility&#33; Bigger hands means it&#39;s easier to trip over them.

Yeah, I looked at Oliver Jones and Oscar Peterson at the International Montreal Jazz Festival, Jones was the fatty hand :heh: , and he was damn fast...but well, Peterson has a lot of arthritis..

i agree, stretch isn&#39;t really important

but how i wish i have longer fingers...just to tell u...there are difference

i once watched those 60th century pianists perform...omg those hands are not only big, their fingers are soooo long...sometimes i have to reach for black notes eh oh well guess some ppl are just born with good piano hands

9 or 10

I can reach both hands up to the ninth. Sometimes I can do ten with difficulty.

I dont know.but I like to play the paino though.let me check 8.

you peopl have huge hands....only 8 and ok with a 9 IF its necessary...

i have midget hands... :cry:

you peopl have huge hands....only 8 and ok with a 9 IF its necessary...

i have midget hands...


i admire people with hands just fit an octave, when i play octaves....i always play the ninth note....arggg X_X

its still annoying when the composer decides to put a huge big chord that i couldnt reach....have to miss notes out....think about it....this is what happens even in me exams......lol

:P I wish my hands were perfectly adjusted to an octave&#39;s span. I always play a 9th by mistake... :o

I wonder how far I could stretch on a HARPSICHORD, with their super-slim keys&#33; :P

sounds like people actually would want to have midget hands like mine.....oo....i feel honoured now to have them...lol :lol:

sounds like people actually would want to have midget hands like mine.....oo....i feel honoured now to have them...lol

yep yep, cuz my piano teacher has midget hands, but OMG can she play. When you get to big chords, just play them scattered but fast. *sigh* so jealous lol

woah.. I&#39;m so jealous&#33;&#33;&#33; I can only reach an octave.. :( my hands are extra small... And people always say that a pianist hands are big&#33; :angry:

well, i can reach up to a nine... to a ten is really not necessary... cmon, not many songs have a split that far... and chihiro, it&#39;s aight if you can&#39;t reach to a nine, it&#39;s just stretching exercise. if you want to play music like final fantasy however, you may have to stretch a note farther... but not in a ninth so you won&#39;t stretch your precious little hands. I have a friend who has small hands but can play so fast, she can manipulate looking like she is playing an octave... so bottom line, just stretch to where it is comfortable. don&#39;t overdo it or two things may happen: either your hand will stay stretched forever or you won&#39;t be able to play at all... hehe... both options doesn&#39;t seem very good at all... :blink:

o you people are so nice....still.....big chords are big chords....cant reach them=cant reach them...lol..... :P

I can reach up to two c&#39;s above middle c&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;
lol i HAVE HUGE HANDS I KNOW LOL&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;



I alos can play some songs with my feet&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

Originally posted by KurumiAngel49@Aug 17 2004, 02:50 PM
I can reach up to two c&#39;s above middle c&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;
lol i HAVE HUGE HANDS I KNOW LOL&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

That would be a 2 octave span... that&#39;s impossible, unless you were a giant&#33; :P

Err... did you read the title of this thread? :P

geez, I must be enourmous.... I have an 11th...

Originally posted by KurumiAngel49@Aug 17 2004, 05:50 PM
I can reach up to two c&#39;s above middle c&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;
lol i HAVE HUGE HANDS I KNOW LOL&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;



I alos can play some songs with my feet&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;
alll i have to say is... wow... :lol: anywhere from 8th to 10th

XD I wish I could play with my feet&#33;

9&#39;s not too hard for me, 10 is a stretch.

Originally posted by Milai Sapphire@May 24 2004, 04:16 PM
Same here...I usually have to stretch for a ninth...I guess my hands weren&#39;t really meant for piano playing...so I think I&#39;ll stick with the flute... :heh:
i am about the same as both of u......^^&#39; i can easily stretch a ninth but i haf tor eally try tog et a tenth :heh:

12 notes for me&#33;
I have huge hands LOL&#33;

*EdIt*
I can also play a few songs with my feet, and my hands behind my back.

How do you play piano with your feet? @_@ Well, I can only stretch up to 9 notes. I can do 10, but then my fingers always slip... :heh:

Hehe it looks like I&#39;m not the only one who thinks that I have big hands...like everyone else I can do 9 keys easily (darn octave scales are so annoying) but I might have to strain a little to make 10...

I don&#39;t understand how some songs have chords that are 10 keys apart...those are pretty much impossible...for me anyways ^_^;

ya if you play some chopin pieces, he composed lots of 5 notes chords with 10-12 key apart. you play 2 notes on your thumb and just stretch as far as you can hahah

I think I can do 9 notes. And for those who can&#39;t make those really big stretches, use your nose XD I think Mozart composed a piece that required you to hit a key with your nose XD

i have puny hands&#33; i think 9 keys at the most&#33; >.<

I can stretch to a LH 13th if i really need to- eg in some of the chords in Ravel&#39;s "Scarbo" (the most difficult piece in the world&#33;&#33;) i never have to stretch more than a 10th/11th in the RH

10.

11 at most.

My left hand can stretch to ten keys with no problem. XD My right hand can only stretch to nine keys. I play a violin, so I have to stretch my fingers a lot.

I can do nine notes easily, and ten notes if I wanted to; I can even do eleven if I really try.

Well I have never played piano before so I have no idea. But I can stretch 6 frets on a guitar if that counts anything.

11??&#33; 12?&#33;&#33;&#33;? 13??&#33;?&#33;?&#33; O_______O *dies*

T___T I&#39;ve always wished for BIGGER hands. =__=

RH: 10
LH: 9

My piano professor has SUPER humongous hands. I don&#39;t know how far he can reach upto, but his pinky is as big as my middle finger. X________X

hm i wonder how you guys count when you say nine is it those between the thumb and the little finger or is it one counting with the thumb and nine when the little finger is on it?
yeah i know im a little bit after :bleh:
if that is so then i can reach a nine :) but have to pull them down aside or else i will touch the others haha

I can do 17 if i dislocate my shoulder and finger. (I&#39;ve tried recently, i ended up pulling to hard and popped out out my finger, i got to 14...) other wise i can do 9

Hmm... from a C up to an E, that would be *counts* ...7,8,9. Would it be 9? Hearing numbers like 11 and 12 make me wonder about the evolution of humanity. @_@ Oro&#33;

Ok, I know my hands are small, but I have a little trouble with an eigth and I can barely get a ninth&#33;

10 easy both hands 11 if I stretch both hands. I guess my left hand gets as much exersize as my right even though im right handed lol...

I can do a ninth pretty easily and if I really try I can manage a tenth ^^. My friend can stretch up to 11 keys and she doesn&#39;t even play the piano.

I can do a 10th easily enough, thanks to me freakishly long fingers. Beyond that: no chance. XD

I can reach 11&#39;th.

-MiM