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Re: left handed clarinet?

Author: rsholmes
Date: 2008-02-19 20:05

I'm not so sure the left hand is used "much more". One definite difference is that the right hand, not the left, supports the weight of the instrument, which makes some sense.

Early clarinets were made to be played with either hand above the other -- keys were centered, sometimes with double touchpieces for play with either hand. Obviously once there were more than a few keys that got to be impractical and one hand or the other had to become the standard top hand. A few left-handed clarinets have been made, but I get the impression there's really not much of an advantage for most left-handers in using the left hand down and right hand up. If due to injury one hand can't fill its traditional role then a left-handed clarinet might make sense, but that'd be an exceptional case.

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