PIANISTS FOR ALTERNATIVELY SIZED KEYBOARDS
If everyone plays the same size, most are playing the wrong size!
Firstly, children’s hands vary enormously. Ten-year old boys will often have hands larger than most adult women. Sometimes even very small children can have hands much bigger than average for…
There is no evidence that regular stretching execises can have any more than a marginal effect on hand span. To quote Deahl & Wristen (2017): 'Despite anecdotal accounts of individuals…
While Alicia De Larrocha and Vladimir Ashkenazy had hand spans smaller than those of many (mostly male) concert pianists, they were much larger than those of a big majority of…
Records of prize winners in the most prestigious international piano competitions show that men significantly outnumber women. For first prize winners the gender difference is even more stark.This gender disparity…
