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Seems like the same issue as getting a well-established player who has over-learned one system to play an alternate one (like a Mazzeo clarinet or, even more extremely, a McIntyre clarinet).

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As a lefty in a righty world which I have overlearned in the fifty years since my childhood, I cannot even imagine why a lefty would want to use a reverse clarinet. After all, it is obvious to me that one's dominant hand should be on the top of the clarinet, not the bottom (I have always played a clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, and flute that way). I have no idea how the 90% of the world that is right-handed can stand to play a clarinet in which their dominant hand is on the bottom constricted by the weight of the clarinet on the thumb-rest.

Oh, I get it --- the reverse clarinets are for all of you right handed clarinetists who are handicapped by having your dominant hand on the bottom.

(But of course, I also do not understand what is so tough about using a Mazzeo clarinet, either, as it seems perfectly natural to me to switch between these and regular Boehm ones.)