freakish handspan

[ada]

A mate's hand span. Is this unnaturally HUGE?

[jre58591]

not really. i can reach from the F to B. i can take a pic to prove.

[ahinton]

No, indeed - in fact, it's perfectly normal. Rakhmaninov could manage a twelfth and Hamelin can comfortably take passagework in twelfths (or could, if what he was playing required him to do so).

What's yours, ada?

Best,

Alistair

[gruffalo]

these are my hands:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e54/dakonieczny1/My%20stuff/hands4.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e54/dakonieczny1/My%20stuff/hands1.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e54/dakonieczny1/My%20stuff/hands3.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e54/dakonieczny1/My%20stuff/hands2.jpg

i dont think your friend has an extraordinary reach, but it's still good for a woman.

[henrah]

You're just freaky gruff

[danny elfboy]

Seems like she could reach a 11th with more stretch
If she's a woman it is indeed remarkable

Look at this page
http://www.dskeyboards.com/html/handsizepage.html
You can see that usual woman spans stop at 8,9 which is 22 cm or almost a tenth
So reaching a 11th would be very rare for a woman according to this table


Also let's not forget that piano playing increases our hand span
Gruffalo you wouldn't have those hands if it wasn't for piano playing
One reason is the growth stimulus during growth that increase the amount of cartilage that is turned into bone. Not many people know for example that playing basketball increases the final height of a growing kid or that a kid who plays baseball will grow with the arm he/she uses to throw the ball way longer than the other.
The other reason is the loosening of the web of skin between the fingers
Playing piano eventually lead a pianist to be able to position the thumb and pinky in a straight line. The still tight web of people who don't play piano don't allow them to do so

[ada]

Actually, it's a bloke's hand 

Alistair, I can reach an octave comfortably, a bit over at a stretch 

gruffalo you are scary 

I obviously have led a life sheltered from er, large hands.

[gruffalo]

i give freakishly good massages 

[franzliszt2]

I have a friend who can play 12ths using 1 and 3. He can get a 13th almost with 1-5!!

[cygnusdei]

A mate's hand span. Is this unnaturally HUGE?

This looks like a Casio Privia, isn't it?

[ahinton]

Alistair, I can reach an octave comfortably, a bit over at a stretch 

Well, it would have to be "at a stretch", would it not? Just keep trying hard to open recalcitrant Dandragan Estate olive oil bottles whose caps are resistant to the usual treatment and you'll find that your overall hand span will increase in time (you'd roo the day if it didn't work, wouldn't you?!...)...

I obviously have led a life sheltered from er, large hands.

There must be a remedy for that, surely? - just don't ask me what that is on a public forum...

Citizens for the right (and left) to bare hands (with overall spans in excess of a tenth)...

It's getting really late here now, so what's left of what passes for my brain can no longer stretch at all...

Buona notte!

Alistair