Re: [Harp-L] Help! How should I teach left handed players to hold

[Boris Plotnikov <ploboris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Recently I start to teach right-handed students to hold harmonica in right
hand upside (like Igor Flach did), low notes to the left. I have very good
results with almost all left-handed students. I'm left-handed myself as my
teacher Michail Vladimirov.
I think for right-handed people holding harp in left hand is a bit
uncomfortable. So I think that left-handed students have to hold harp in
standart way - left hand upside up.


2013/6/21 <MundHarp@xxxxxxx>

> I am left handed too.... But I always held the harp with the high notes to
> the right, like on a piano.
> I tend to hold the harmonica in my right hand, and hold the mic in my left
> hand...
> I guess "whatever works for the player"
> John "Whiteboy" Walden
> Just now,
> in bonnie Scotland.
>
>
> In a message dated 6/20/2013 3:19:09 P.M. GMT Daylight Time, jim  writes:
>
> <<I am left handed and it works fine for me to use standard  hand position.
> I think you want the wrist side of the "whaa" hand to oppose  the lower
> notes. If you make the left hand the whaa hand, then the  harmonica gets
> flipped to accomplish this.  Flipped orientation is a  disadvantage when
> using  tab.
> Jim>>
>
>


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