Beautiful poetry! And I enjoyed the piano music too, but wanted to drop my head down on the desk and take a nap...very soothing!
Ed........Grape remembers correctly...Chopin did have small hands....here osome info for you:
<Span and power techniques do not rely on your handsize as such, though a genuinely small or very small hand will obviously curtail what repertoire you can tackle. (My sister has genuinely tiny hands so she could not really even think of tackling a Rachmaninoff concerto, but she even now still baffles me by how well she plays Brahms Rhapsodies and Intermezzi, not known for small hand friendliness...) Beyond natural span, the key lies in the internal flexibility of the hand, the development and indeed stretching of the connective tissues between the fingers individually, and between the thumb and first finger specifically, combined with tremendous suppleness in the wrist. Chopin knew this like no other -- his hands were very far from large -- as did both Liszt and Debussy>..
Moon,
You words paint such beautiful pictures in my mind...I like Mamie have been blessed to feel this kind of love and find your words mirro my thoughts.
BBoH