Interestingly David Van Edwards is left handed and made himself left handed lutes. However much more importantly he makes the point that the truly dominant hand is linked with the speech centres in the brain - ie right hand for right handed and left hand for TRULY left handed who have their brain symmetry reversed. However some left handed people still have the speech centre on the side of the RIGHT hand. David argues that the hand linked with the speech centres is best used for the plucking hand since this is the "voice" or "Speaking" hand. He tried playing "right handed"and found he couldn't I tried changing to left handed for a while on a guitar because of Dupuytrens contracture but found it very difficult and fortunately surgery has cured the problem - at least for now. Hope David does not mind me feeding this into the discussion Nick Gravestock
On 12/5/10 14:33, "Eugene C. Braig IV" <brai...@osu.edu> 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. > > 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 > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
