Hi Simone, I have a question for you. I am quite tall (1.90m) and consequently I have VERY large hands; in your opinion, having large hands is only an advantage for those who play the piano, or are they sometimes a bit of a hindrance?
I'm asking you because watching your videos, you also seemed like quite a big man. Jokes aside, I wanted to know if you adopt any particular technique when playing rather close passages, hand overlaps, etc., and finally, is it true that pianists who are not very tall are more agile when playing?
Me too, like you, big hands, reaching do - sol of the upper octave.
In my opinion, it's a blessing. Some people with small hands cannot perform certain pieces at speed and must invent risky strategies. Those with large hands just stretch and that's it. Many Chopin studies are, in my view, almost impossible to play for a small hand. Of course, a large hand creates problems when working on chromatic passages, i.e., in close proximity... However, you practice and the problem goes away. When you reach chromatics, you just have to think about closing the hand; the rest comes naturally. For pianists who aren't very tall, we need to see what you mean, but generally speaking, the shorter the lever, the less it exercises resistance on power, so physically there is a grain of truth in this... I say a grain because in the end we aren't competing in speed for broken double octaves, so this doesn't affect pianists. One thing that I consider true and have experienced instead is coordination. It's not a rule, but it has seemed to me on several occasions that the 'watussis' are more uncoordinated... But I repeat, it's not a rule, it's just my observation. Sorry for any errors, but I'm on an iPad in the car... Stop!!
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Thanks for the amazing response!! as far as the notes are concerned, well, I take do-fa and anyway welcome to the club of long-fingered players!!
There are specific exercises aimed at the "widening" of the hand, essentially to gain something in extension or to make secure the wide harmonic intervals that we reach with difficulty.
Clearly these exercises should only be performed under the direct control and verification of a Maestro, otherwise they can cause "trouble".
Thanks for the post!! For now I haven't tackled tenths yet. Mine was just a way of being self-deprecating about the fact that I have small hands. ciaooo
P.S. sorry if while writing I confused tenths with octaves eheheh XD
I am 1.8 m tall and I can play a ninth!!! By lowering my wrist, I can barely reach a tenth! Based on my height, they are quite small. I know people (non-pianists) shorter than me with very large hands.
A large hand for a pianist, in my opinion, is a gift.
