Klarinet Archive - Posting 000764.txt from 1997/10

From: SUHADI B SAPARI <9400652E@-----.sg>
Subj: RE: Left-Handedness
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:23:15 -0400

well, sometimes i get finger twisted on those keys for the pinky finger
cos i prefer to put the right pinky for the middle staff B and the left
one for the third space C......

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>From: Suzanne Little[SMTP:s349929@-----.au]
>Sent: Monday, October 13, 1997 9:57AM
>To: klarinet@-----.us
>Subject: Re: Left-Handedness
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> Sorry about dragging up a very old (but only briefly addressed)
>issue but being left-handed myself, I felt like adding my 2c. Firstly I
>have never had any problems with the orientation of the hands while
>playing the clarinet, flute or recorders, in fact left hand on top, right
>on bottom feels perfectly natural to me. The only problems I have had with
>the weight of the clarinet are happening now as the result of a previously
>broken, sadly abused, right wrist.
> Interesting side point. Right-handed people are considered to be
>so as a result of a stronger *left* side of the brain while lefties are
>thought to be stronger in the *right* side. The exact reasons for
>left-handedness are unclear but a few theories have been proposed. (1) an
>injury occurs to the left hemisphere causing a shift in mental function to
>the right resulting in un-natural left-handers, or (2) lefties that are
>naturally stronger in either the right hemisphere or both. Okay so what
>could this mean musically? Well it is believed that musical ability,
>aptitude or talent is connected to the right side of the brain meaning
>that essentially playing music is a left-handed pursuit. I don't know how
>true this all is or how it would relate to the more (in some ways)
>mathematical side of theory which is related to the left side of the
>brain but it's interesting to read up and ponder when you've nothing else
>to do. Okay enough from me, after all I am a left-handed scientist who
>also plays the clarinet, so I totally confuse the issue.
> Suzanne.
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