If it's any consolation, two of the three fantods appear to be
left-handed.
On Feb 9, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Daniel Winheld wrote:
But if it's a flopped engraving we don't know which is the true
lefty-- might as well go back to the museum and puzzle over the
shovel....
What about this picture from 1601 (by Philippe Galle) :
http://le.luth.free.fr/lefties.htm
When in the same picture you can see an right-handed player and a
left-handed one, I suppose it adds up to admitting that lefties did
exist, even in a very small proportion, just like now.
And I don't really buy the "moral" justification to the
representation of a lefty player...
Best,
Jean-Marie, one rather happy lefty in the oppressed minority ;-)))
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