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

[Michael Rogers <bullfrog9@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm with you, elizabeth.  I'm only comfortable with my diatonic in my 
right hand.  Been that way since 1955.  i also answer the phone with my 
right ear and am right handed.  I don't let it get to me. it's just the 
way I am and it feels right.

MikeEGS1217@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
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> 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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