I hate when people say "your fingers are long, do you play piano"?

But they aren't long, I can't even reach an octave without touching the key prior to the octave.
I have always wanted to play piano but its frustrating when you cant play octaves. Yet folks seem to think you'd be GREAT at piano because you have what they think are long fingers🙄😔🎹

Yes, I do know you can drop the octave when playing something like a chord, but when all that's going on in on one hand is the octaves itself, it won't sound good, if you know what I mean.

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DarkSideoftheMoon · 31-35, F

I used to get told I should play basketball because I'm tall. I'm 5'7". I used to get offended because women basketball players are really super tall and why couldnt they say a model instead? Now I dont care

iamnikki · 31-35, F

@DarkSideoftheMoon I think the model part would be equally annoying. And fat boys get told "you're gonna be a football player"

DarkSideoftheMoon · 31-35, F

@iamnikki yeah my brother was told that a lot

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I can play piano 😌 I can't remember what I can reach, but I think it was like the E or the F at full stretch.

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iamnikki · 31-35, F

@missbeez the span of my hand cannot cover 8 keys (an octave)

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I tried to learn the piano too but struggled with not being able to reach an octave.

When i was in my early teens i was skinnier than most boys so adults would say oh you could become a jockey 😧
Why couldn't they say if you work out a bit you could become an athlete?

iamnikki · 31-35, F

@SW-User lol. I hate when they say fat boys will be football players. As if it's cute to be overweight or something

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@iamnikki Yeah assumptions like that aren't really helpful

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