Big Hands An Advantage Or.....

Frank wrote:

One of the two is his (Chopin's) 😉

http://www.chopinfor...org/cbhands.jpg

Toto, a bet the other way 😉

Goodness, I wouldn't have said so... I would have imagined the "Chopin hand" to be the one on the right... And instead it is Beethoven's...

Interesting image anyway... 🙂

Well, it would be too easy to write that I immediately guessed whose hand it was between Chopin and having understood TheSimon's help, but since that didn't happen... I think Chopin and Beethoven had beautiful hands! 😃

Ahahahahah

For all those who have small hands... don't worry, problem solved ahahahahha

Yesterday while I was having dinner my attention was captured by these two guys, so many laughs!!. Really good

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beautiful!!!!

Ahahahah the video is wonderful! My piano professor always said that hand size is associated with different "technical performances," if you will; he used a football metaphor as an example: tall and physical players are much better at aerial play, have greater stability on the field, etc. Shorter players, on the other hand, might excel in speed, ball control, etc. Of course, it's not a rule that always applies. It is sad, however, when you perhaps play certain pieces where you are presented with intervals of a tenth or more and you don't know what solutions to adopt, aside from obviously using an aid with wooden rods =P for example in Schubert's Impromptu Op. 90 No. 3, which I was studying these days, the left hand takes a B-flat - F and sincerely I don't know what to come up with =P

For very wide chords, I have been told that they are divided and these chord parts are played very close together (tralam or tralalam) in such a way as to give the sensation of a single chord (or almost), so that even those with small hands can manage to play them.

What do you think?? are there also other methods??

Daniele87 wrote:

Ahahahah the video is wonderful! My piano professor always said that hand size is associated, if you will, with different "technical performances",

Large hands are an important natural gift for those who want to be pianists, much like height is for a volleyball player. Overall, even someone short can play volleyball, perhaps as a setter, but it's one less man at the block for the team. The only drawback of large hands is working in small spaces (chromaticism, for example), but there are exercises to improve this condition. For those with small hands, a tenth begins to represent a major problem and there are no exercises to improve this—that is the harsh truth... It is also true that small hands allow for more [agility/opening], but a small hand is a small hand. I know people who struggle to reach an octave, and there is little room to expand there. This doesn't mean they will never be pianists, but they must give up a large slice of the repertoire.

sisifo1987 wrote:

For very wide chords, I have been told that they are split and these parts of the chord are played very close together (tralam or tralalam) in such a way as to give the sensation of a single chord (or almost), so that even those with small hands can manage to play them.

What do you think?? Are there other methods too??

This solution is the one used in string instruments to play three-note chords.

TheSimon wrote:

This solution is the one used in bows to play three-note chords.

Ah yes, I remember! It was talked about when the violin was examined in conferences.

I understand that the "hands" instrument is fundamental for playing certain pieces.

Speaking with pianists with large hands, they confessed to me that they find difficulty in achieving Mozart's lightness. Is this fact true, or does it all depend on practice?

A curiosity: are hands considered large when one has the physical potential to manage to play the entire piano repertoire or something else??

So Simon, small hands have more disadvantages than advantages compared to large hands... what a bitter truth =P then of course I used to hear that if small hands are very flexible then you can still play interesting repertoires, of course always staying away (to save oneself from sprains and various things) from pieces that perhaps require a tenth interval..

It's not that those with small hands have elastic ones and those with large ones have wooden ones. Those with small hands are very often forced to stretch excessively to be able to cover certain intervals, which thus over time helps them expand a few millimeters more than they would have without this involuntary exercise. There are exercises to extend the fingers, and even those with large hands can do them. There are also many Chopin studies that provide this benefit. That is why it is said that those with small hands forget many of Chopin's studies...

Of course not, larger hands aren't made of wood... perhaps naively I thought it was like in sports in general where smaller physical stature corresponds to greater speed, etc. but from what you say, it's not like that. Luckily I discovered I wasn't a "wall-blocking volleyball player" by the time I was already into music and the piano, otherwise who knows... I'll hold onto my ninth interval anyway, hoping to become a good pianist =) greetings!

Well, if you take the ninth interval easy, you're not doing too badly; on the contrary, I'd say it's a normal size difference...