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Author: gkern
Date: 2013-06-30 20:56
That extra pinkie finger sure would come in handy sometimes - or would it just get in the way?
Gary K
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-07-01 02:05
I dunno. Yoandri Hernandez also has six toes on each foot. He makes his living scampering up coconut trees for tourists and charging them for the show, the coconut and letting them take his picture. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030944/Meet-Twenty-Cuban-man-extra-fingers-toes.html.
All I know is that when I was 14 and in my second year of playing, my fingers kept getting tangled up, and I fantasized a LOT about having some extra ones. I also fantasized about having Superman's muscles of steel, flying ability and X-ray vision (of course to see through the girls' clothes). I suppose we all did, if we were guys.
My mother never stopped nagging me about how fast I wore out my shoes, so, to the extent that I thought about it at all, I was OK with five toes per foot. Unless of course I happened to be fantasizing about being an NFL soccer-style placekicker.
Ken Shaw
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Author: William
Date: 2013-07-01 15:03
I have enough trouble with my ten fingers--can't imagine having to learn to coordinate twelve (or more).
It would be interesting to hear a centipede play a keyboard--how would you describe the resulting mega-chords? It would make theory class dictation exercises quite more interesting. Again, I found the normal chordal progressions played by only a few fingers to be challenging enough......augminished, demented, french, neopolitan, five 7 flat5 of "what"?? ROTFLMAO.
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