Klarinet Archive - Posting 001267.txt from 1997/09

From: as648@-----.ca (Terri Kimiko Oda)
Subj: Re: Left-handed clarinet
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 18:29:30 -0400

>Fascinating - I cannot see the need, for both hands are equally
>worked and neither has the majority of effort. Even if one plays
>other instruments that way round.

I have to admit, I would appreciated a 'left-handed' clarinet, if only to
give my right hand a rest so that for once the left would be doing the
heavy work. Although I'm learning to do things like use a mouse with my left
hand because my right now gets tired so easily (recovering from tendonitus
caused by writing), I have to play clarinet on the right. It'd be nice to
have the option to go left... although, I guess, it would take a while to
adapt (but hey, if I managed to type in dvorak for a while, then maybe I could
learn to play reversed!)

>I have seen a news item - somewhere - that someone (enlightened or
>nuts - your choice) is intending to produce a left-handed piano in the UK.

How on earth would you accomplish this? Just have the keys reversed with
the lowest on the right and the highest on the left?

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