Fascinating stuff, all this lefty-righty business. I am completely
"right" oriented below the neck, (hands, feet, body
language/movements) and totally "left" head; I automatically pick up
the phone LH to put it to my left ear, and automatically put
single-vision opticals to my left eye. Born with the wrong head?
Heads switched at birth in the nursery? Have I been paired with the
wrong body- or the wrong head all these years? HELP! -Twilight Zone
material for sure.
Dan
>> this all left hand right hand stuff is all hogwash in my opinion. Left
>> Handed Piano? why bother? on the assumption that the weakest hand plays
>> the basses? didn't Ravel write a Piano concerto for the left hand
>> only? As Miles said, instruments that require two hands should be
>> required to play with equal dexterity. Who says the right on the
>> guitar requires more dexterity than the left hand, its two totally
>> different things. My left hand is not stronger than my right hand, yet
>> I consider pushing down on the strings and playing bar chords more
>> physical than plucking strings.... and definitely more physical than
>> strumming.
>
>
>This fascinating topic comes up every so often and I'd disagree with
>Bruno. I'm left-handed ('cack-handed' as my mother used to say) and
>play right-handedly. Even after years
>of playing right-handedly if I were to attempt to play 'air
>guitar', air lute', or mime playing a plucked instrument, I
>spontaneously do so left-handedly. (And I can't do it
>right-handedly.)
>
>It's not just a matter of strength; if you are left-handed you hold
>a pen, a paint brush, a tool with that hand. Delicate, fiddly things
>you do with that hand - and on a plucked instrument I'm sure it
>would be better and more natural to use that hand to actually
>produce the sound on the strings.
>
>I try paying with a plectrum sometimes and just now I picked one up.
>I picked it up with my left hand and passed it to my right hand to
>play.
>
>So playing right-handed, it you're left-handed, is a bit perverse I
>think - but it makes life easier.
>
>Stuart
>
>
>> We play the instrument the way we were shown how to play
>> it. I know a Venezuelan woman who plays left handed cuatro, without
>> reversing the strings, although I believe she is right handed ( I will
>> find out)...simply because her nanny played that way....
>>
>> it is not the weakest or strongest hand that dictates how you play, it
>> just turns out that way and how the instruments were designed.
>>
>> Right handed lutenist who wishes he could play left hand, cause his
>> left hand is slowly getting crippled due to disease.... I may be
>> forced one day to learn how to play the other way around...
>>
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