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Advantage of left handed clarinet?

Author: Micke Isotalo ★2017 Date:   2018-04-03 22:32 What's the advantage of a left handed clarinet for left handed people? That is, a clarinet where you use your left hand on the lower joint and your right hand on the upper joint and the keys therefore are made as a mirror image of a regular clarinet (such ones can be ordered from Dietz, and probably also from some other makers). I myself am left handed, but I've never seen that as a disadvantage for clarinet playing. I've seen someone claiming that left handedness could even be a benefit, but I don't know for what reason (more accuracy when handling the quite delicate movements of the keys of the throat tones, or what?). One issue however I have with my right hand, though I don't know if that has anything to do with that hand being "inferior" to my left hand. It's in passages as the five last notes in bar 108 in the Mozart Concerto, or the same notes in the beginning of the next bar (clarion e-d#-f-e-g). No matter how much I practice this passage, it doesn't seem to come really natural and fluent to me (though someone listening may not hear any trouble). Playing the d# with my left hand little finger instead of my right hand little finger helps a bit, but not entirely (yes, I have an "extra" left hand d#4 key on my clarinets). Perhaps this passage would work better for me on a left handed clarinet (and after a lot of practicing and re-wiring of my brain ), but at the same time I'm quite sure I would get new trouble with some passages on the upper joint now to be executed with my right hand. Any thoughts? I'm mainly curious about these questions.

Topics	Author	Date
Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Micke Isotalo	2018-04-03 22:32
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Ken Lagace	2018-04-03 22:47
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Geronimo	2018-04-04 08:26
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	ned	2018-04-04 09:22
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	clarnibass	2018-04-04 09:39
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	GBK	2018-04-04 09:40
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Johan H Nilsson	2018-04-04 15:23
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Tony F	2018-04-04 16:40
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Jaysne	2018-04-04 19:48
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	kdk	2018-04-04 20:43
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	kdk	2018-04-04 19:52
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Dibbs	2018-04-04 20:21
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Tony F	2018-04-04 21:00
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Mrdi	2018-04-04 22:57
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	ned	2018-04-05 05:43
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	ned	2018-04-05 05:58
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	kdk	2018-04-05 07:03
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Mrdi	2018-04-05 08:56
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Dibbs	2018-04-05 13:32
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	clarnibass	2018-04-05 09:09
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Micke Isotalo	2018-04-05 10:40
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	ned	2018-04-05 13:46
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Barry Vincent	2018-04-06 14:03
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Neil	2018-04-07 04:17
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	ned	2018-04-07 04:30
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	zhangray4	2018-04-07 04:37
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Barry Vincent	2018-04-07 09:52
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	ned	2018-04-07 10:58
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Late_returner	2018-04-07 14:10
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	zhangray4	2018-04-07 19:52
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	zhangray4	2018-04-07 19:55
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	Klose	2018-04-07 23:38
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	ned	2018-04-09 05:05
Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?  new	ned	2018-04-09 05:06

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