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Topic: Try playing left handed ! |
Bob Hoffnar
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Austin, Tx
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Posted 20 Feb 2016 9:23 am |
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In order to keep my perspective I sometimes will not put the rods on my steel, sit on the other side of it and try to play left handed. It's pretty funny and impossible but it does make me understand what new guys are going threw. Helps me be patient and keep it simple with students at first.
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 20 Feb 2016 10:50 am
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| Have you ever seen the picture of the Big E playing his guitar behind his back? There's also one of him playing it over his head. He also used to practice in the dark in case he ever went blind. I don't know if he ever tried it left handed, though. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 20 Feb 2016 10:56 am
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Okay, Bob. Time for you to post a video on YouTube!  |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 20 Feb 2016 12:59 pm
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New guy here. Yes Bob, playing right-handed is enough of a challenge so far. Can you throw a rope left-handed?
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Lyle Clary
From:
Decatur, Illinois, KC9VCB
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Posted 20 Feb 2016 6:02 pm
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Curley Chaulker and Lloyd Green, both lefties, learned to play right handed and mighty well I might add.
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Don Walworth
From:
Gilmer, Texas, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2016 6:02 am I'm Left Handed
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My guitar is Right Handed. I have problems playing, but not because of that - but that is my "back-up" reason for my lack of skills. Plus they don't make Left Handed Piano's.
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Jerry Berger
From:
Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2016 9:26 am
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I'm a lefty and when I was 10 I even played a left handed steel. That's me in foreground.
I switched to a right handed guitar when I was 13.
I didn't have any problem then when I switched from left to right hand playing.
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 21 Feb 2016 11:12 am
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I sat down behind Roy Glaze's lefty MSA once.
"Once..." That was it.
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Ken Pippus
From:
Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 21 Feb 2016 3:52 pm
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| A trumpet teacher had me play with the left hand on the valves, then upside down , pushing the valves up instead of down while doing standard technical studies. Said it produced "muscle memory" more quickly. |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 21 Feb 2016 10:38 pm
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Surely you want to develop muscle memory in the muscles you're actually going to use! I am moved to comment only because I taught trumpet and I never heard anything so daft in my life.
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Peter Harris
From:
South Australia, Australia
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Posted 22 Feb 2016 2:17 am
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I always had trouble with the pedals on a trumpet....
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Ken Pippus
From:
Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 22 Feb 2016 10:05 am
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Well, Ian, the guy studied with Cichowitz and played first chair in a major orchestra, but clearly must have been a fraud.
I agree that muscle memory had little to do with it, but I suspect that, like playing an unfamiliar copedent, or left handed, it might make you "think" differently about your playing. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 22 Feb 2016 10:26 am
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I think it was exactly the opposite of muscle memory: forcing one to ingrain the specific valve rather than the appropriate finger. If trumpets were as individualized as pedal steel guitars, I'd have applauded the approach.
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Jeff Spencer
From:
Queensland, Australia
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Posted 25 Feb 2016 3:23 am
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| Tommy Grasso - Australia plays both left and right. Very well too |
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 25 Feb 2016 4:04 am
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| Ken Pippus wrote: |
| Well, Ian, the guy studied with Cichowitz and played first chair in a major orchestra, but clearly must have been a fraud. |
| Lane Gray wrote: |
| I think it was exactly the opposite of muscle memory: forcing one to ingrain the specific valve rather than the appropriate finger. If trumpets were as individualized as pedal steel guitars, I'd have applauded the approach. |
Now I'm seeing some sense in it 
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