Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxk.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxk!rs55611 From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Are men better pianists than women? (Re: please read etc.) Message-ID: <551@ihuxk.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 09:28:52 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxk.551 Posted: Fri Feb 3 09:28:52 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 03:46:41 EST References: <526@orca.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 11 Your mention that Rachmaninov had large hands and wrote accordingly raised a question in my mind. Is there a lot of music that simply can't be played (or at least is made much more difficult) without having hands large enough to span X keys? It would seem to me that hand size or span would be a much more important attribute than hand strength. (But, then again, I don't play the piano.) Have many of the great pianists been noted for having large hands and/or long fingers? (Perhaps a stupid question, but...) Bob Schleicher ihuxk!rs55611