I remember one of my music lesson books had a diagram of Rachmaninov's hands. It showed him comfortably playing a C octave with the 2nd and 5th fingers of his right hand, and his thumb on the G below that.
Anyway, Asians are renowned for their musical prowess but also for their sometimes diminutive stature--which is to say, their piano prodigies don't always have the biggest hands.
This video is one man's attempt to compensate for that.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
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I can actually hit an octave with my 2nd and 5th fingers, but only on my left hand. And certainly not easily enough to do it in the middle of a song. (That span between fingers 2 and 5 is an inch longer on my left hand than on my right.) I'll have to see how close I can get to that G tonight at home.
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