Re: [Harp-L] Upside Down Harmonica playing (was Grandpa Elliot)

["Bill" <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it is what feels good and has done for nearly 30 years but i wonder if there's also something about the wring of the left handed brain that works better with notes ascending from right to left rather than left to right and whether left handed newbie chrom players might be better advised to play upside down rather than buy an adapted harp.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: hashbb@xxxxxxx 
  To: bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; dzeller@xxxxxxxxxxx ; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 8:00 PM
  Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Upside Down Harmonica playing (was Grandpa Elliot)


  A bunch of people play/played left handed(upside down),
  including:
  James Cotton,
  Paul Butterfield
  Dr Ross
  Sonny Terry
  What ever feels good.
  HB





  -----Original Message-----
  From: Bill <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: dzeller@xxxxxxxxxxx; harp L Harp L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 1:52 pm
  Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Upside Down Harmonica playing (was Grandpa Elliot)


  I wonder how many of them are left handed. I am and I also hold the harp upside down in my right hand, I just picked it up that way when i started playing because it seemed the natural thing to do. If they sound good, maybe it's because us southpaws are naturally more creative lol! 
   
  ----- Original Message ----- From: <dzeller@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
  To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
  Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:27 PM 
  Subject: [Harp-L] Upside Down Harmonica playing (was Grandpa Elliot) 
   
  > Great link, Daniel! I have noticed that a surprising number of great, 
  > toneful harp players, now including Grandpa Elliot play the harp wit h high 
  > notes to their left/harp flipped over from conventional position(watch the 
  > video closely to confirm). (Kind of like Albert King and his Flying V 
  > strung right-handed but flipped over and played left!) Am I correct in 
  > saying William Clarke also played the harp "backwards"? Mel Melton down > in 
  > North Carolina is another player that does this and similarly has great 
  > tone. Doesn't seem to make a difference: it's all how folks learned to 
  > play! 
  > 
  > Zig 
  > 
  > "Daniel Perrone said: 
  > After watching the video posted earlier on the "pretty cool" post I became 
  > intrigued about the man playing harmonica. Probably, most of you already 
  > know who he is (I know, I don't get out much lol). His name is Granpa 
  > Elliot, a street musician for decades in New Orleans. Anyways, found this 
  > very nice you-tube video and I had to put it on my favorites. Hope you 
  > enjoy 
  > it. 
  > 
  > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMZhGEXSZyo " 
  > 
  > 
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