SteveStrummerUK Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 2 hours ago, Bapu said: My left plummy hand is 9.5" How vile ? I like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted March 12, 2022 Author Share Posted March 12, 2022 Sheesh, you guys are all giants. We may have to switch the conversation to gut diameters so I don't feel like such a dwarf. I remember reading about a guy who had 6 fingers on each hand. Somebody wrote a piece specifically for him that literally no one else in the world could play. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 9 minutes ago, bitflipper said: Sheesh, you guys are all giants. We may have to switch the conversation to gut diameters so I don't feel like such a dwarf. I remember reading about a guy who had 6 fingers on each hand. Somebody wrote a piece specifically for him that literally no one else in the world could play. Indeed! Here he is. Has a bit of a Bapu look to him, doesn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 1 hour ago, craigb said: Has a bit of a Bapu look to him, doesn't he? Well...... I guess in the sense that he does have a significant surplus of things that aren't really needed. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 I hear that extra finger is an Alembic... ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Bodily facts........ It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 6.6 pounds. The average man’s pen is is two times the length of his thumb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s. There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. Women blink twice as often as men. The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as the brain. Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still. If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it. Women will be finished reading this by now. Men are still busy checking their thumbs. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 1 hour ago, paulo said: Bodily facts........ It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 6.6 pounds. The average man’s pen is is two times the length of his thumb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s. There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. Women blink twice as often as men. The average person’s skin weighs twice as much as the brain. Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still. If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it. Women will be finished reading this by now. Men are still busy checking their thumbs. Oh fine. This will probably get the thread removed now! ? (You forgot to add that the only thing you're supposed to put in your ears are your elbows.) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mettelus Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 14 hours ago, craigb said: Ok, that IS weird! While my right hand is a 1/16th less than 9.5", my left hand is about 10". Never knew that! LOL, I had the same reaction initially! Even got paranoid and made sure they are the same size. For guitarists, the fret hand also has stronger muscles to spread the fingers, while the other just holds the pick. Not much use on the piano for right-handed players though, since the right hand does more work most often on the keys. Maybe guitarists who play left-handed can put it to use. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertWS Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 8 hours ago, paulo said: One human hair can support 6.6 pounds. Wait, that doesn't sound right....hold it....what kind of human hair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 13 hours ago, paulo said: One human hair can support 6.6 pounds. 5 hours ago, RobertWS said: Wait, that doesn't sound right....hold it....what kind of human hair? I reckon any kind of human hair cold support this... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 6 minutes ago, msmcleod said: I reckon any kind of human hair cold support this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 5 hours ago, RobertWS said: Wait, that doesn't sound right....hold it....what kind of human hair? Nose. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveStrummerUK Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 I measure everything in centimetres these days ... ... everything just seems a bit longer that way ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Right. When they ask me how long is my "finger span", I can say 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted March 14, 2022 Author Share Posted March 14, 2022 Just realized my right and left hands don't match. Left is 7.5", right hand is 8". That might explain why it's hard to find gloves that fit. Makes sense, I guess, given the superior work ethic of the right hand. It does everything, from scrubbing pans to pruning roses. I am, however, impressively ambidextrous when it comes to nose-detritus removal. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Smith Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 No measuring tape handy at the moment. I have average sized hands and when I play they look like claws. The product of not enough piano lessons. I can see larger hands as a disadvantage since it mostly depends on where you need those fingers to be. Smaller = more efficient. Less mass means more speed. This is why the giants all have mostly died off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 9 hours ago, Tim Smith said: ......Smaller = more efficient. Less mass means more speed. This is why the giants all have mostly died off. Or not enough raw fried becan to keep them fit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Smith Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Slow reflexes and big hands, fast reflexes with small hands or everything in between. Bacon grease tends to make the keys slippery. Nothing worse than hogging the keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Thanks to a few years making a living playing a Fender P-Bass, my left-hand span is just shy of 10 inches. And I haven't played bass full-time since the psychedelic era, when it was hard to get work as a sax player. I could probably stretch farther when I did this 5 hours per night. I started with good-sized hand, the right spans 8.75 inches. Not counting the thumb, from the index to the 'pinky' left hand is 7", right hand is 5.5". I suspect this is from reaching from a minor third to a fifth on the same string of the P-Bass near the nut. I play lead guitar on stage for a number of songs, and that span helps. Funny thing, after all these years, the fingers on my right-hand curve slightly to the right, a function of having to reach for the right-hand keys on the sax. I guess as much as I shape music when I play, my musical tools shaped me. Insights and incites by Notes ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted March 15, 2022 Author Share Posted March 15, 2022 Next band rehearsal is Sunday. I'm going to ask to measure our sax player's hands. Hope he doesn't think it's weird, but at this point it's important research. If I find out I have the smallest hands in the band I could risk my credibility as musical director. They might all start questioning whether someone with such short stubby fingers even knows what the hell he's talking about! That could lead to an insurrection and me being deposed in favor of the guitarist. That SOB has long fingers and loves Iron Maiden. Suddenly we're an 80's glam rock cover band and I really can't pull off Spandex. Then I break my back because I've had to replace my compact QSCs for Marshall stacks, my hearing blows out from playing at 140 dBSPL and my kids think my new David Bowie haircut looks ludicrous. I have to buy a 1972 Chevy van, which we all live in while we tour the Midwest playing at NASCAR events. The bassist, now suffering from a heroin habit, can't keep his sh*t together because his wife has left him and we have to fire him after he gets into a fistfight on stage with the drummer. Then again, I might just be overthinking it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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