> -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Walsh [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 5:46 AM > To: Bruno Fournier > Cc: [email protected]; Lute List > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Re : Re: restring? > > This fascinating topic comes up every so often and I'd disagree with > Bruno...
Yes, even as a proper lefty who has opted to play standard instruments and who argues that other lefties should try to do likewise, I still contend that the issue of handedness is not "hogwash." I even refuse to call standard instruments "right-handed" because I don't believe there is anything inherently right-handed about placing an instrument's neck in the left hand, and I don't like nomenclature with an implication that excludes me as a legitimate user of such instruments. The different jobs of the two hands are much more mechanically different in plucked strings than in piano. Still, they are both relatively complex, and I believe lefty beginners still owe it to themselves to at least try on standard instruments. > I try playing 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. As a player of classical and early mandolins, I play with plectrum quite often, but I don't recall ever paying attention to which hand picks up the pick before playing. > So playing right-handed, it you're left-handed, is a bit perverse I > think - but it makes life easier. While handedness in approaching music isn't quite hogwash, I'd also like to think that a lefty on a standard instrument isn't quite perverse...I hope. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
