Subject: RE: [Harp-L] right hand vs left

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Your experience with the chromatic, Bob...are mine too. I naturally  hold my 
chroms primarily with my left, unless it's the Super 64,  which can require 
both... and like you, this doesn't affect how I hold my  diatonics at all.  
 
No matter what I do, however, I simply cannot get comfortable holding a  diat 
in anything other than my right hand.  Go figure. 
 
 Actually, I do other things supposedly attributed to a  lefty....answer the 
phone with my right ear for instance; I've taken many  tests to determine 
one's orientation...and every test indicates I  should have been left-handed. 
 
My theory is that terror of both my mother and the Nuns in school in  
Scotland was such that when we kids were told to pick up the fountain  pen with the 
right hand I did so (smearing ink everywhere - with my  handwriting suffering 
to this day as a result), with no argument  whatsoever :)  (those women brooked 
no opposition).
 
Elizabeth
 
 
 
Message: 3
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 12:09:18 -0400
From: robert mcgraw  <harpbob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Harp-L]  right hand vs  left
To: Daniel Gage <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,  <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
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I'm right handed but have held with my right  for 30 years [I don't play 
upside down] ...recently I've been working on holding  with my left...I do think I 
get a "darker" sound that way. What I do, though, is  hold with the left if 
it's a slow blues, or when I'm comping on a shuffle...when  I'm going to be 
moving around the upper register or playing rock or jazz, I'll  hold with the 
right. It seems more natural that way and the same advantages that  accure tone 
wise in the lower register when holding with the left accure in the  upper 
register when holding with the right. So why not use both?
It's  strange, though...most of my time these days is spent on 
chromatic...and I hold  that with the left...seems to not affect the way I hold diatonic at 
all.
WVa  Bob




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