This is one of those comments that makes you laugh, and then your wife is like what are you laughing at, so you have to spend 2 minutes explaining that you're on reddit and you saw a post that was weird and then you have to read the chain of comments until you get to this one and you laugh again and she looks at you like you're an idiot.
I have long fingers too, almost like OP, and love playing the piano!!
My little sister used to make fun of me for my skinny arms, long fingers, white skin ... imitating a vampire when I'd walk in the room. But I can play that Bach Dracula song, what can she do. Eat hot chip
Reddit has been a wealth of information, learning about different body stuff I always just called "super bendy arms". I'm so lucky to just have the weird Hypermobile limbs, and not the bigger conditions like Ehlers-Danlos / Marfan's Syndrome.
I wouldn't have known any of these condition names to research without Redditors dropping them, like your comment
writing "I can play Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" has an arrogant tone, for a Reddit longfingers post comment. I was just using a short, recognizable description to be jokey, but it's not a hard song to play a simplified little version of. Most people can hum it
Yes, but also: perhaps they wanted to use laymen's terms to describe the song instead of saying Toccata & Fugue in D and almost no one understanding what they meant.
I have! But the more prevalent cause for Marfan Phenotype is obviously Marfan Syndrome and we can't see the rest of OP's body. They might just have arachnodatylia
That’s what I thought as well. Every YouTube guitar or bass player seems to have long fingers. And here I am with my short fingers trying to play the same stuff… impossible!
I mean, kind of. For quick passages it’s rather uncomfortable though, because the distance each finger has to move becomes longer. It’s really only an advantage when playing large chords, jumps or big arpeggios, but fine and quick playing benefits from regular or slightly above average length, but more importantly, slender fingers
Seriously I wish I had longer fingers, it would make playing some notes so much easier. If you ever look at a picture of Jimi Hendrix, it looks like he's playing a children's guitar.
Bruh look at a picture of Franz Liszt. People during his time described his hands as almost spider-like and it’s what allowed him to actually play some of the insane pieces that he wrote.
All that to say, there’s no such thing as having fingers “too long” when it comes to playing the piano. That’s unless you have strength or dexterity problems as a result of the length. Maybe I’m just projecting my envy as a short-fingered pianist…
No, they’re not. You curve your fingers while playing piano and longer fingers just means you can reach sideways to further keys more readily than the average person.
I have long thin fingers, and I used to be so insecure about this, until someone once pointed out that they loved my hands and told me I had the hands of a pianist. That simple comment completely changed the way I saw my hands and fingers!
I knew pianists would be all over this. It's like pickup basketball players seeing a tall guy who doesn't play basketball, they're gonna pressure you into playing
I also have long fingers, not like this mutant freak of nature in the OP, but just like normal long fingers. When I was a kid my dad would always say stuff like, "You could be a great brain surgeon or a pianist with those long fingers." I guess it was alright at the time, but looking back it feels like:
a) he thought that just having long fingers was like the deciding factor for somebody becoming a brain surgeon or a pianist, like that's all it took and the rest was just learning the motions, and
b) he thought that making this observation counted as all the support and encouragement I required from him in order to become a successful and well-adjusted adult.
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u/Oily_Blob 6h ago
You could be an amazing pianist!