I have always known that I have big hands (9.5 inches, or 24 cm), but I also know that Rachmaninov's hands are way bigger than mine. I can stretch from D to F# (10.5 notes) comfortably, while D to G (11 notes) is my limit. Rachmaninov can do 13 (D to B!), and that's like one foot long. Just imagine someone with a handspan of a long ruler!
The website below shows a collection of handspans. According to their data, I would be around the top 6% in terms of handspan size. But interestingly, the biggest handspan collated in their research is only 10.2 inches, which pales considerably in comparison to Rachmaninov's 12 inches.
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