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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-04-08 18:23
I saw an Adler built in left-handed form.
BTW, Pete Worrell is left-handed.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: pewd
Date: 2007-04-08 19:53
theres a picture of one on john butler's web site - albert system
cork-and-pad.woodwind.org
- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas
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Author: samohan245
Date: 2007-04-08 22:11
im left handed i have no problem playing the clarinet
why would someone build this unnecessary clarinet?
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Author: hartt
Date: 2007-04-08 22:30
"why would someone build this unnecessary clarinet?"
apparently you did not open the link are read why it was built, as stated by the Howarth Co.
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2007-04-08 23:14
Following the First World War, back when recorded music was in its infancy, there were numerous musicians who were badly mutilated by the large shell fragments that occurred with the artillery of the day. Following the war, there was quite a bit of customization of musical instruments for those who survived their horrid injuries.
(There were also specialized musical compositions composed for pianists with one hand. "Piano one hand", I guess.)
With the "trade" of musician slowly dying out, and with shell fragments now designed to injure but not to kill) there wasn't as big of a need for it post-World War II days. However, with the improvements with body armor, we are again creating a large population with missing hand parts and limbs, so this might start cropping up once more.
In fact, with the ability to directly "wire" connections to human nerve endings (used in some of the more sophisticated artificial limbs), I would imagine that a clarinet could be made with electro-mechanical keys, needing only a mouth to blow it and some means of keeping it there.
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Author: John Stackpole
Date: 2007-04-09 11:16
Although I suspect you are right about nerve-ending control of electro-mechanical keys (and why not the air source too - can you picture a disabled vet staring at his clarinet, wired up, concentrating, as we watch the clarinet "play itself"?) it may be a while in coming about.
Although, come to think of it, is this not just an application of Professor Harold Hill's "Think Method" of teaching band music. It worked on the stage and in the movie, why not at Bethesda Naval Hospital?
JDS
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Author: Kalakos
Date: 2007-04-11 06:34
I don't know why they also made "left" handed clarinets (ie the right hand is up). However, I do know that many people who played folk instruments such as bagpipes, double reed shawm type instruments, cross blown flutes etc. always played them with the right hand up. These are all instruments with no keys or just a key at the bottom. It was irrelevant which hand was up, and many if not most played with right hand up. It would be a natural thing, then, to want to play with right hand up if you moved to the clarinet.
I should say that I began playing Greek folk flutes (floyeres) with right hand up, and I still play the Greek wind instruments (gaida, karamoudza, floyera) that way (although I play the Albert clarinet with right hand down because when I started I could not find a "left" handed clarinet available). I have since found 2 or 3 of them, but it is too late to change. A famous Greek clarinetist named Vaios Malliaras played "left" handed clarinet.
Best regards,
John
Kalakos
Kalakos Music
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Author: OpusII
Date: 2007-04-11 07:26
Here is a picture of a left-handed clarinet being played between the "normal" right-handed clarinets…
Left-hand clarinet
When I looked the first time at this picture, I knew directly that there was something wrong… and it wasn’t the embouchure… but it could have been the embouchure.....
Eddy
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-04-11 15:17
There are some traditional Irish folk flautists that play their old 8-key wooden flutes in a left-handed manner.
But as Irish folk music is mainly in keys of D or G, the keys on the flute are pretty much redundant.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-04-11 15:44
By coincidence, yesterday I watched the 1955 movie, "The Benny Goodman Story," with Steve Allen, with that infamously flopped photo on the DVD jacket and also printed on the DVD itself. Since the clarinet requires equal dexterity with both hands, I can't imagine there's been much of a demand for a leftie clarinet.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-04-11 16:07
Didn't Jimmi Hendrix play a right-handed guitar t'other way round?
I know Sir Bob of Geldof does.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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