I got this from my cousin Eileen............who is Eric's sister..........she was sweet......................as well as many of my other cousins............it is just that no one loved each other in that family......my mother and her siblings.........i miss them..........................Eric was good at the piano.......and i think Eileen played the clarinet............she was smart.........and i would take her and her sister and brother to DC..........as i did the nieces and nephews of my 2nd wife................till they turned on me.....life goes on.............i can only wish the good ones well...

TIL Rachmaninoff had hands so large that he could play C ...

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Apr 29, 2013 - Yeah I have small hands too (9th I can do but it's hard, 10th is ... Even though this is unusually long, I have no idea how I could play most of the ...

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Why does everybody play Rachmaninoff's 3rd Concerto so much slower than he himself played it? ... have been exceptionally dextrous, and he apparently had verylong fingers, as Chopin did. I've read that it's easier for people with smaller hands toplay Beethoven. .... How difficult is Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto?

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич ..... As part of his daily warm-up exercises, Rachmaninoff would play the technically difficult Étude in A flat, Op. 1, No. .... But then again, perhaps he just had big hands. Contrary ...

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Jun 14, 1981 - ''On tour in June 1979, Gary played the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. ... ''It was just so hard to explain,'' Mr. Graffman reflects. ... The injury was long thought to have occurred when a finger sling he had devised succeeded, not ..