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A few months ago we attended a concert by the Royal Scots Guards, and I was interested to see ONE piper playing his bagpipes left handed, i.e. with the "bladder" (correct word?) on the opposite side to everyone else. I found this clip on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEC88K9eGEs) of a guy playing bluegrass banjo left handed, which I found a bit unusual. I've seen a lot of left handed guitarists, bass players, drummers etc., but never a banjo player. Any thoughts? What about a left handed fiddler? Flautist? Sax player?
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Here you go Keith, a list of left handed musicians Scroll down past the guitar and bass listings to find other instruments like trumpet, sax etc.
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1) The sax is a left handed instrument which right handed people are forced to play. The left hand is involved in every note of the saxophone but one, the second octave C# in which no fingers are involved. But the right hand has nothing to do when playing two octaves G G# A B C C# and can also rest in the highest octave of D and Eb.
2) IMHO The guitar is a left handed instrument. The left hand has to move to contorted shapes all up and down the neck while the right hand can pretty much stay in place. Left hand works much harder and needs more brain power.
When you learn a new song, where does most of your focus go? In the right hand? Nope, the fretting left hand.
TAB tells you which finger and fret to use but doesn't tell you what to do with your right hand. Because the left hand does most of the work.
So I think the left handed guitar sold to lefties is just a scam. They charge more money and offer fewer options but they use psychology to make the left handed person feel something is being made for him/her. So many things aren't. My sister wished they made left handed scissors when we were growing up so she could see the line she was cutting on without the blade being in the way.
Jimi Hendrix ate, wrote, and signed autographs with his right hand. I've read that he was ambidextrous, but right hand dominant. He knew the standard guitar was a left handed instrument.
I played in a band with a left handed guitarist. He could play either way, and would turn his SG around mid song for the show-biz effect. Although he was a lefty, he played better right handed and told me he was sure the normal guitar was a left handed instrument.
Violins, violas, cellos, double-basses don't come in left-right, nor does the piano.
I think the piano is a right handed instrument, but plenty of virtuosos are lefties.
So it's my opinion that the regular sax and guitar are left handed instruments, but I'm OK with that.
But then I'm right handed, so I can't really experience left handedness. Feel free to disagree.
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IMHO The guitar is a left handed instrument. The left hand has to move to contorted shapes all up and down the neck while the right hand can pretty much stay in place. Left hand works much harder and needs more brain power.
I would debate that ONLY as far as noting that right handed throwers wear the glove on the left hand. And stand on the left side of the plate when they bat. Right handed hockey goalies wear the blocker on the right and the glove on the left, etc.....
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Although you can build a left-handed trumpet, left-handed players I know just play a regular one and use their right hand on the valves. My pro lefty brother did it that way.
In school, sometimes a trumpet player will be asked to switch to French horn, where the valves are played with the left hand. For some reason, this switch doesn’t seem to be difficult.
Not only can I play French horn well enough, but I discovered I can finger scales quite well with the left. I did this when my right hand was mildly injured and I just played a concert with my left. I don’t understand why but muscle memory from decades of scale drills seems to have carried over to the other hand. Apparently the brain can make that switch. At least it works for me.
As Notes said, sax requires a good left hand far more than a right hand. Flute, also, to a lesser degree.
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I’m a lefty and play a left hand guitar...but I play a righty upright bass. When I took up the bass fiddle decades ago a conversion would’ve required removing the top and relocating the tone bar. And at festivals, jams, etc. I would not be able to pick up a bass and join in. So I learned backwards. The only real downside is that slap bass is a bit awkward as the G and D strings are on the inside of the finger board and leave your hand over nothing to slap after hitting a note. You gotta pick and then move your hand across the board to slap. It works though. Guess this just confirms I’m wired weirdly Bud BTW, Jimi Hendrix played a right handed guitar but strung for a lefty. He’s not playing upside down as so many folks think. Well, the guitar body is upside down and that causes the confusion. He obviously learned on a right handed strung for a lefty and never switched to a true lefty body. Meaning the low E is on the right side of the fret board giving a lefty the same position as rightys for chording and picking. A couple of notable exceptions are Doyle Bramhall and Albert King who are left handed and play right handed guitars strung for right handed - so they play up side down. A dead giveaway is that they strum upward.
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Well articulated Notes, and certainly food for thought on what really is a left-hand dominant instrument.
Thanks for that.
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