Hitting the wood when attempting to hit the low A in grieg's piano concerto?

[sv3nno]

Has this ever happened to you/anyone?

[jollisg]

No, but it has happened when trying to hit the highest C in suggestion diabolique by Prokofiev

[iansinclair]

No -- but what can be really fun is now and then I have to play a rather fancy digital piano -- a rather nice one -- which has all kinds of funny bells and whistles on what should be the fall board.  I have long fingers... and hitting some fancy drum accompaniment in the middle of, say, a nice Nocturne can be rather confusing...

[quantum]

Not really, I often improvise at the extremes of the piano and have developed a feel for where bottom A and top C are. 

I've hit the fall board mounted music rack on vertical pianos before.  Sometimes it results in the music crashing down onto the keys. 

[invictious]

Not really, I often improvise at the extremes of the piano and have developed a feel for where bottom A and top C are. 

Ooh look at Mr FancyPants here with his extremes of the piano!

That's ok. I have once punched myself on the nose when doing a sfz on a chord with staccato on ffff dynamics.

[quantum]

Ooh look at Mr FancyPants here with his extremes of the piano!

Wearing pants with fluorescent polkadots helps a lot with accuracy in hitting those notes.   

[j_menz]

Not in the Grieg.  I've hit the wood doing the top C on a piano that didn't quite make it that far, and Busoni has a few notes lower than that A that so far I've managed to avoid going for.