Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Changing the Way You Hold the Harp (long)

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Bill:  Welcome...(out of lurking mode) ;)
 
I absolutely cannot feel comfortable holding a diatonic with my  left hand 
cupping with my right, yet I'm right handed.  It's far more  comfortable and 
feels "right" to hold with my right...between forefinger and  thumb..makes it 
awkward since I'm still in the learning stages as far as  diatonics are 
concerned...and no one quite knows how to work around it for  me...
 
...but then I answer and listen to a phone with my right ear (supposedly  
something only lefties do)..among other "lefty" traits. Perhaps was supposed to  
be lefthanded but forced into writing right-handed as a wee girl in school in  
Scotland.  No one brooks those teachers' orders ;)
 
Chromatics are different. I mostly play 16's...and do use the left hand for  
vibrato..but find I'll also tend to try to hand vibrate it with my  
right...depending on the particular song.   Of course I'm not cupping  such a big 
chrom...
 
On a CX-12 (my latest fun machine)...it feels comfortable to hold it just  
lightly with my left hand (for bracing)...my right is doing most of the  
work..both with the slide and for any "effects"... 
 
Yet I'm not ambidextrous...definitely much more able with my right  hand..for 
keyboard playing, typing and the like.
 
In the long run, I suppose it doesn't really matter all that much, as long  
as one is getting music out of the "mouth organ".  Of course some people  can 
do it a lot better than others, so maybe playing it properly gives them an  
edge, and that's why I'm not so good on a diatonic...
 
I'm curious if anyone ever did a study as to whether or not people who were  
dyslexic played the harmonica upside down?  ....
 
Elizabeth




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Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:42:44 -0000
From: "Bill"  <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Changing the Way You  Hold the Harp (long)
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Dragged out of the lurker's closet at  last!

I'm a left handed player and hold the harp in roughly the same way  that Adam
Gussow does in the video, except that I hold the harp upside down  and in my
right hand.  I just picked the harp up that way when I bought  my first harp
and it seemed the natural thing to do.  

Are there  any left handed players out there who hold the harp the way
non-southpaws  generally do, or any right handed players who play upside
down?   

Bill 
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Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Changing the Way You Hold the Harp  (long)

What about if you are left  handed?


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