>Even more > disorientating was playing with a German violinist who had had an > accident that ruined his right hand; he re-taught himself to play > "left-handed".
A minor quibble, but do you mean "ruined his *left* hand"? I can imagine bowing with an injured right hand as long as the wrist, elbow and shoulder were still ok, but doing the job normally assigned to the left hand with an injured right sounds impossible. I know a left-handed cellist who tried to learn "the right way round" but found it much easier when she reversed everything. This suggests that, for some people at least, one way is more natural than the other at the neurological level. I also know a brilliant left-handed guitarist who plays right-handed (ditto violinist), so it's probably all down to the individual. chirs To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
