Piano Hands

In the world of pianists, teachers and students, one hears the phrase, "My, you have great piano hands."

What they mean, of course, is that your hands are shaped well for the piano.

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But what is the proper shape of a hand for the piano? Are there many shapes?

Piano Hands

The rejoinder is, of course, there are as many hands as there are ways to play the piano.

In history, great pianists have had both large and small hands. In practical terms, a pianist should be able to stretch ten white keys to navigate the needful piano literature.

Rachmaninoff, a huge bear of a man, had giant hands that could stretch twelve white keys on the piano. Many pianists have trouble with his music for this very reason. But in contrast, there are pianists who specialize in Rachmaninoff, quite well, like Alicia de la Rocha, who has very small hands. It's all in the mind.

Josef Hoffman had such small hands that Steinway built him a extra grand piano which he used for concerts. Each key was a tiny increment narrower than a regulation ¾ inch wide key. Poor Hoffman was an astonishing child prodigy who had a great occupation but soon descended into alcoholism. The pressure at the top of the concert game was tremendous.

In terms of children, one runs over kids that have excellent hands for the piano. Long fingers, to stretch as far as inherent horizontally, and general dexterity are natural elements of a "piano hand."

The "piano hand" is naturally relaxed when put on the keyboard, and does not freeze into discrete postures, the most comical of which I call the "bug crusher." In this ridiculous posture, the child puts two thumbs on the keys while all the other fingers drape down below the level of the keyboard.

There are many fun games we play to spoton hand positions such as the "bug crusher," but the game with a quarter on the back of the hand is a good place to start.

I've seen kids who did not have piano hands play very well, if not better than some who were more "properly" endowed. The conjecture for this is that playing the piano is practically all in your mind. If you don't know, or see, what to play, the most fingers in the world cannot bring the music to life.

If you can fantasize what your fingers will look like playing a confident song or passage, it's far easier to then get your fingers to bring that foresight to life. Once again, it's all in the mind.

The truth is that whatever can learn the finger patterns of the piano, even if they are not anatomically suited to it. Use your brain first and then your hand.

The brain and hand have a way of finding workable solutions, personel to that person's hand alone, to a myriad of small fingering and technical problems that face the pianist in a constant barrage.

You will find yourself fascinated by the finger patterns of the piano if it is presented to you in the proper way.

By John Aschenbrenner Copyright 2000 Walden Pond Press.

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