As the incredibly driven and gifted researcher that I am, I was wondering: how many of you people are, like myself, left-handed?
Yo, Nemo… what’s with the name?
Since we’re the same person, I am allowed to insult you, right?
Cathal McConnell of the Boys of the Loch is one left-hander.
I am another one, although not nearly as famous as Cathal :-}
I write (and shoot a bow!) left-handed but do most everything else right-handed. Guess I’m actually ambidextrous - an old friend recently reminded me that as a school kid I used to start writing on the chalkboard with my left hand, switch the chalk to my right hand and continue on. I saw a left-handed guitar player the other night who plays a regular guitar but turns the guitar upside and fingers the notes with his right hand and strums with his left hand! (He says he learned to play it that way and has no desire to switch to a left-handed guitar.)
Susan
(You all realize, of course, that Nemo spelled backwards is Omen…)
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As one of Nemo’s “personal friends” I think “he” will be glad to know someone has taken interest in his rather enigmatic psEudONyM.
I’m right handed but play the whistle left handed.
haha I understand the meaning of your name Nemo, cute one.
I’m right handed but am trying to make myself left handed to spare the abuse my right arm takes.
What abuse ??
I spent some time trying to reverse
hands, rt on top, a couple of years
ago. Tried it again the other day.
Doable in an agonizing way.
There may be a point, as the
strain on the lower hand/wrist
is greater.
I’m left-handed.
I build them with my left-hand (actually both) but play them the typical right-handed way.
BTW - Your comment about this being cutting edge, are you referring to the fipple (cutting edge).
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On 2002-04-04 22:48, Tony wrote:
What abuse ??
Oh, for years some of the muscles in my right elbow would get cranky if I lifted too much (I’ve changed residences a lot) and after a recent internship where I sat at a computer for 8 hours a day, various spots between my hand and mid upper arm give me trouble at times. Not whistling related. Once I get a job and a doctor I will have it checked out. But I am training myself to automatically open doors and do other heavy pull/push jobs with my left hand instead.
I’m a lefty but have adapted to doing a lot of things right handed including playing the whistle and my bouzouki.
Well,
I’m left handed, but play whistle and flute right handed, also I play the Mountain dulcimer right handed. Jimi Hendrix used to play the guitar upside down, because he was left handed! (Maybe that is why he used to set his guitar on fire…) Jon
“Proud to be a south paw!”
I’m another ambidextrous one, about 60-40 (they actually have handedness tests). I write right, eat left. (I also shoot a bow left like susnfx – hadn’t thought of that in years.) It really comes in handy in everyday life, whenever one needs fine motor skills where the reach is difficult for one hand.
Charlie
According the the web site called “The Flow” the following flute players are left handed.
Cathal McConnell
Seamus Tansey
Vincent Broderick
Michael McGoldrick
Catherine McEvoy
Deirdre Havlin (formerly with Déanta)
Gary Shannon
Patsy Hanley
Steve-not a flute player and not left handed.
I’m right-handed, but I know a right-hander who plays left hand down.
I believe Paul McCartney plays guitar left-handed, when he’s not just miming.
Edit: Actually he mimes left-handed too, but he definitely sings right-handed.
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[ This Message was edited by: Martin Milner on 2002-04-05 08:07 ]
Thought Hendrix played a right handed guitar, it was strung left-handed. Dick Dale (king of the surf guitar sound) was instrumental in the 1950’s helping Leo Fender with the design the famous Stratocaster guitar and ‘Showman’ amplifier. His stratocaster was left-handed but the strings were strung right-handed.
Blues giant Albert King was left-handed, and he’d pull the guitar strings down to bend a note. I just addressed the topic of left-handed vs. right-handed whistle playing in another topic area before reading this. Rather thanrepeat myself, I’ll just say that one of my workshop students, who was left-handed, tried playing “left-handed” and 'right-'handed" and said it felt pretty much the same either way.
Tom Bingham
Interesting.
The reason I mention this is that many left-handed people I know (including myself)are just a tad quirky. Thought this might be linked to whistling. Thoughts?