Modartt user forum - Do you suffer with small hands ???

Re: Do you suffer with small hands ???

2018-06-16T09:09:23Z

Well, I had a friend in the early 70s. He was an organist in a small church, played piano well, and had somewhat small hands. He couldn’t always play some last note in big chords. One day he cut off his forefinger, accident. When I asked him later how is the playing going, he smiled and said, that now he finally can open the hand more and play a tenth (interval). So he experienced no suffer, as he said. Later I was looking at his playing, and he played the church organ very well, like he did before the accident.
Well, that was long ago.

Re: Do you suffer with small hands ???

2018-06-16T02:47:35Z

Re: Do you suffer with small hands ???

2018-06-15T20:09:29Z

Beto-Music wrote:

I don't have small hands, despite also don't have very huge ones, but there was a medium level music sheet where in one specific chord I couldn't fully reach the last note, since it required big hands open in maximum extension. I remambered about a dentist assistance, which very small hands, and I imagined if she was a pianist, how she would suffer.
Many people, specially women, have hands with no enough "aperture" to reach some keys.

This gentleman created a interesting solution for this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGwGBozPJFgI presume digital piano manufactures could do a similar thing, since many digital keyboard actions are relatively low cost to produce.

Chopin had fairly small hands, my piano mentor is Japanese and she has small hands but she rocks on the piano.

Do you suffer with small hands ???

2018-06-15T17:08:05Z

I don't have small hands, despite also don't have very huge ones, but there was a medium level music sheet where in one specific chord I couldn't fully reach the last note, since it required big hands open in maximum extension. I remambered about a dentist assistance, which very small hands, and I imagined if she was a pianist, how she would suffer.
Many people, specially women, have hands with no enough "aperture" to reach some keys.

This gentleman created a interesting solution for this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGwGBozPJFg

I presume digital piano manufactures could do a similar thing, since many digital keyboard actions are relatively low cost to produce.