The hands need to be looked after, and many pianists are obsessive about the care of their hands. He liked to soak his hands in hot water to warm them before he played, and he wore gloves (and scarf and hat!) in all weathers.

Yes! People with small hands and short fingers can play piano. With exercises and with practice, you can overcome small hands and short fingers to play piano just as well as anyone! To get the most out of your piano experience, it’s important to understand how hand and finger size can affect your playing.

Since the right hand normally plays the melody, it can often be hard to reverse that mindset, and play the tune with your left hand, so pianists might choose to play entire sections of music with the hands crossed over, simply to preserve the normal roles of the right and left hands.

no you cannot wash your hands for at least an hour after practicing piano. If you don’t wait an hour, then washing your hands will make you forget everything you just practiced.

No. It’s like touch typing. You look at the music, not the keyboard , or you would appear to be a pigeon with your head bobbing back and forth between music and keyboard. Another key aspect of sight reading is to read-forward.

Make no mistake; concert pianists do not make no mistakes. Also, they’re generally the cream of the crop, at least when it comes to technique. As Hakki said, that’s a big reason they are concert pianists (not the only reason, but a big reason).

Intelligence. It’s not always true that pianists are smarter, but in most cases, they have a higher IQ and can perform multiple tasks – and they can learn at a faster rate than most others.