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Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?

Author: kdk ★2017 Date:   2018-04-05 07:03 ned wrote: > I realise, as do most left handers, that we live in a right > handed world. That said, RHs should realise that we LHs - in > many instances - just cannot operate as proficiently being when > forced to adopt a RH approach to many of life's functions. > That was exactly my point. The trouble is, it's hard to tell how much of the need to reverse things is built on expectation and how much on neurology. > I play a little of the guitar, I pick with the LH and find > chords with the RH. I do not think I could do it the > ''conventional'' way by any stretch of the imagination. > This doesn't surprise me at all. But do you reverse the strings, or does the E string end up on the bottom when you reverse the guitar? One player bowing with the left hand in a string section can cause havoc. Also, unless you play with the strings in the opposite order (high string on the bottom, low string at the top) the whole instrument, at least an acoustic instrument with a sound post and internal bass bar needs to be built differently. I'm not sure if I could play a clarinet with my hands reversed, but I don't know if that's because I'm right-handed or because I've been doing it left-over-right for so long that I've been too conditioned to change. > I hope I have not laboured the point too much. > Not at all, at least IMO. I think it's a fascinating thought area, though in practice instrument construction is probably one area where the right-handers get to set the rules. Karl

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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