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choucas09

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Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« on: March 23, 2010, 05:55:58 PM »
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2010, 06:26:24 PM »
Seen it before.

Hilarious and genius at the same time.
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2010, 08:02:54 PM »
 :lol:

I had not seen that before, and ( as Ratrod previously  said ) the guy displayed genius on all levels. Thanks for posting !  :)
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2010, 08:13:17 PM »
great stuff, have you ever seen the film 'shine' all about a student of R, goes off his head as R is notoriously difficult to play...... but despite this he still can play.His music career finished, he ends up a tramp and in a bar one night mentions he can do R and everyone starts taking the piss as he sits at the piano ..... he rips , beautiful film, just sayin'
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2010, 08:32:40 PM »
Excellent  :lol:
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2010, 08:53:50 PM »
Quote from: gordiji on March 23, 2010, 08:13:17 PM
great stuff, have you ever seen the film 'shine' all about a student of R, goes off his head as R is notoriously difficult to play...... but despite this he still can play.His music career finished, he ends up a tramp and in a bar one night mentions he can do R and everyone starts taking the piss as he sits at the piano ..... he rips , beautiful film, just sayin'

Great film. And based on a true story, not sure how much of it was true though!
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2010, 09:25:11 PM »
Shine is definitely in my top 5 of all time films. That bit in the bar you mentioned is sublime, everyone thinks he's the village idiot and he scythes into The Flight Of The Bumblebee. And the bit when the Prof (John Gielgud) showed our hero the plaster-cast of Rach's hand, I've worked with all manner of big lumpy blokes in my time some of whom had huge hands, but I ain't never seen hands that big.
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2010, 09:42:08 PM »
now i know very little of Rack, but apparently not only did he have big hands, but he tw@tted the keyboard as well
giving enormous volume, makes me think of stevie R who also had a big pair o mitts but played hard too
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2010, 10:02:15 PM »
Excellent  :lol:
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2010, 10:10:44 PM »
Very nice!
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2010, 10:13:24 PM »
 :D :D :D

Very good!
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2010, 10:17:24 PM »
 :lol:

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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2010, 02:48:04 PM »
''But only hands small!''

i love it when a classical musician can show humor and still rip up the piece. clever use of stage accessories indeed!
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2010, 08:26:00 PM »
Very funny!
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Re: Rachmaninov Had Big Hands
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2010, 11:23:15 PM »
Really liked that, thank you for sharing.  Watched several more of their videos and all are good.
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