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Piano Board => Performance => Topic started by: vivacelife on January 13, 2005, 01:44:25 AM

Title: small hands
Post by: vivacelife on January 13, 2005, 01:44:25 AM

I have tiny hands and everytime when I play octaves, I have to play really carefully, which sound really bad, or I will miss notes.
Anyone can help me and give me some advice?

Title: Re: small hands
Post by: mozartgonebad on January 13, 2005, 01:59:31 AM

try streching your hands...NOT TOO MUCH...but little by little you'll be able to reach 9ths like me.
I used to have tiny hands too.

Title: Re: small hands
Post by: KingVeeGrenadier on January 13, 2005, 02:21:12 AM

I need to add an automatic disclaimer so I need not type this every time. No, I'm not a pianist.

A common misconception about the guitar is that long, skeletal fingers (such as my own) are better for the playing. Perhaps, but I can easily refer one to Michael Romeo who has short, chubby little fingers. On a piano he would probably to stretch to hit an octave. But on the guitar, and thus destroying the myth, he burns the fretboard up.

Physical "limitations" are really only mental. I recall a WWI veteran who wrote a "Left Handed Concerto" - because he lost his right arm.