PIANISTS' HAND STRETCHES
The difficulty of some of Liszt's compositions for the piano is perhaps explained iii part by the fact that his own hand-stretch was unusually, big. He could easily stretch an octave-with his thumb and first linger. Rubinstein also had n phenomenal stretch. On the other hand, there arc well-known pianists to-day whose natural stretch between thumb and little finger is barely an octave; yet by constant and careful practice, and by a wise choice of music (for performance, they have established themselves in the estimation of audiences-, who arc. rarely aware of tho. handicap.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 October 1928, Page 8
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