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Re: Advantage of left handed clarinet?

Author: Micke Isotalo ★2017
Date: 2018-04-05 10:40

I've always thought that left handedness would be an advantage when playing the violin or guitar since the left hand is doing a lot more complicated things than the right hand.

I'm not playing any string instrument myself but the few times I've tried one as a left handed person it felt most natural to me to do it the usual way.

Now some are suggesting otherwise here in this thread, so how could that be explained? Am I wrong in my assumption above and is the moving up and down of the bow or picking the strings actually motorically more demanding than what the left hand is doing?

Or is Karl on the right path when suggesting that some LH people just are assuming that "everything" must be done in reverse by a LH person?

In my case I may add that I'm somewhat schizo in my left handedness - I write with my left hand but other things as throwing a ball I do with my right hand. Neither is learned, but just what comes natural to me.

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