Eugene C. Braig IV wrote:
Au contraire, my dear Stuart. I am stereotypically left-handed and play
standard instruments. I don't believe there is necessarily anything
inherently naturally left-handed about placing the neck of a chordophone in
the right hand...or right-handed about placing it in the left. Both your
hands are rather busy with relatively complicated and strictly anthropogenic
tasks in plucked music. Being so very left-handed, I refuse to refer to the
instruments I play as "right-handed" but prefer "standard." Allegedly
left-handed instruments I call "reverse to standard." Your vocabulary may
differ without shame.
I always enjoy these discussions of handedness! If you were asked to
explain what you meant by 'standard' in this context...? And isn't there
something subaltern in being 'not standard' or 'reverse to standard',
whether it's the instrument or the hominid who plays it?
Stuart
Eugene
-----Original Message-----
From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
Behalf Of Stuart Walsh
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 8:31 AM
To: simon.lamb...@stfc.ac.uk
Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: The Worshipful Company of Left-Handed Lute Players
simon.lamb...@stfc.ac.uk wrote:
Sent to the list on behalf of Chris Goodwin, the Secretary of the
(UK-based) Lute Society:
Dear all
THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF LEFT-HANDED LUTE PLAYERS
At the recent Annual General Meeting of the Lute Society the view was
expressed that not enough is done for left-handed players, especially
beginners or prospective players; perhaps The Lute Society should even
acquire a left-handed hire lute.
A good first step would be to establish a list, network, or database of
left-handed players.
Would any left-handed players care to contact the Lute Society
Secretary, lute...@aol.com, for their names to go on a contact list?
I suppose people like me, who are left-handed, but play right-handedly,
would not be possible members of the worshipful company?
(and it serves us right for betraying our essential sinistrality)
Stuart
best wishes
Chris Goodwin
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