More than 2 hands (but NOT 4) on any number of pianos

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Re: More than 2 hands (but NOT 4) on any number of pianos

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Whenever I see this thread title, I always have a little giggle as it reminds me of the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antoich" sketch.

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Dear community,
I'm searching for good literature for piano three hands.
It's for paedagogical purposes. It should be for easy or medium level.
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I'm still trying to figure out how "More than 2" but "Not 4" equates to anything else than 3.
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fleubis wrote:I'm still trying to figure out how "More than 2" but "Not 4" equates to anything else than 3.
3, 5+, however the practical limit seems to be 1000:
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fleubis wrote:I'm still trying to figure out how "More than 2" but "Not 4" equates to anything else than 3.
It's a catchall for anything other than 1P2H, 2P4H and 1P4H.

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Post by Timtin »

My maths lecturer would have gone for a title such as:-
m hands at the keyboards of n pianos,
where is m is an integer s.t. m = 3 or 5 <= m < inf.,
n is an integer s.t. 1 <= n < inf., and m <= (88/5)n.
The last condition ensures that the number of available
fingers does not exceed the number of available keys,
assuming 5 fingers per hand and 88 keys per piano.
This definition doesn't address the question of what
limitations there are (if any) on the ratio of left hands
to right, or the way they are distributed across the
keyboards. :-)
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fredbucket wrote:
fleubis wrote:I'm still trying to figure out how "More than 2" but "Not 4" equates to anything else than 3.
It's a catchall for anything other than 1P2H, 2P4H and 1P4H.

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Thanks for clearing that up. Frankly, such combinations never occurred to me.
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Sibley has just uploaded Robert Keller's transcription of Brahms' First Symphony for two pianos eight hands.

http://hdl.handle.net/1802/32929
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Jim Faston wrote:Sibley has just uploaded Robert Keller's transcription of Brahms' First Symphony for two pianos eight hands.

http://hdl.handle.net/1802/32929
Wish this arrangement had been around when I was young. What fun it would have been! Thanks for posting this, Jim.
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Jim Faston wrote:Sibley has just uploaded Robert Keller's transcription of Brahms' First Symphony for two pianos eight hands.

http://hdl.handle.net/1802/32929
It has now been withdrawn. Bizarre !
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