Timeline for Guitar for super-small hands?
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| Mar 1, 2012 at 16:08 | comment | added | cornbread ninja | I just looked at your reach chart and measured my own. 7 inches. | |
| Mar 1, 2012 at 15:56 | comment | added | cornbread ninja | I started playing a full-size Yamaha classical when I was 10. It was the first guitar I ever touched. I am a girl and only grew to 5'2". Sure, it was difficult, but with daily practice, I was playing things like Led Zeppelin's Over the Hills and Far Away pretty quickly. | |
| Oct 29, 2011 at 4:09 | history | edited | Dave Jacoby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Forgot to mention scale length.
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| Oct 29, 2011 at 4:05 | comment | added | Dave Jacoby | Giving the best advice I can. I'm 6'3" with reasonably big hands (can't palm a basketball, but I can easily shuffle sixths in G). Really, the only way to really tell is to go to a well-stocked guitar store and start trying things on. | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 22:05 | comment | added | JBeurer | Angus Young small hands? Smallish? Yeah. Small? No. Significantly bigger than mine. I'm really afraid I'm not gonna be able to play unless its 3/4. I hate doing all sorts of acrobatic tricks - having to move hands all over the place like a madman with inhumane agility, speed and precision just to play simple things, whereas player with decently sized hands doesn't have to move hands at all (I've had plenty of that on piano). FML | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 21:35 | comment | added | JBeurer | Here a good picture of hand sizes: steinbuhler.com/assets/images/HandSizePage_12.gif ( I have ~7 inch reach. Yeah. ) That basically is a super-small, 12 year old boy(girl?) hand. | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 21:33 | comment | added | JBeurer | I think there's misconceptions about what I mean with super-small-hands. Smalls hands doesn't mean the hands are just not that big, or that they are wee-bit on smallish-side. For the record, in piano players world small hands usually mean you can reach from C to E. I mean there's really no point in playing if your hands are any smaller than that unless you're willing to seriously limit yourself and your repertoire. Even with C to E reach you'll have extremely hard time playing significant amount of pieces. | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 21:16 | comment | added | JBeurer | "so there's a wide neck to allow you to fret one string without accidently sounding on another" - yeah, but if the finger is small, that might not be an ussue, no? | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 20:48 | comment | added | Ali | +1 Great answer. When it comes to acoustics, whereas 1/2 or 3/4 size classical guitars aren't that brilliant, Martin do a half size model (a la Ed Sheeran) that is not too bad at all. musiciansfriend.com/guitars/… | |
| Oct 28, 2011 at 19:29 | history | answered | Dave Jacoby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
