My Dad was a southpaw. He told me of the many times he would get the yardstick cracked across his knuckles, arm,back or whatever other body part the sadist (teacher) chose to hit just because he was writing with his left hand. Fortunately for me I am right handed.

I always wonder if it was a regional/time period thing. My dad is a lefty and he born in 1939 during his younger school years he went to school in Pennsylvania the teachers seemed not to care too much.I think he said that his kindergarten and 1st grade teacher sort of suggested using the right but if the kid did not switch they would not bother forcing them. Of course this was in a predominantly German Protestant community.

My dad is so hardcore lefty he even has his mouse on the left side of the keyboard.

Recon the mistrust of the left hand goes back a long way. I know some in cultures the left hand is the "dirty" hand.

Here, I think, we never had the imposition of changing a left-hand persons to use the right hand.
My father is a both ambidextrous, he only trouble is that in shooting if a left hand, so the caribine and other rifles had to be for left handed. He also shoots bows and 2 of them are also for left handed.
The good thing for me is that he loves shooting long bows!

I have a left handed piano when I've had too much sauce :Kaleun_Cheers:

Never been a problem...world champion at that :smug:

Dad was born in '22 and went to school in the '30's in Toronto, ON.

It's the hand o the De'il yi ken, strap yon left appendage behind yer back NOW! The right hand is the hand of the Lord!.

Well that was the old days....

Now I believe yoo can get a cream for it http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/image/s2.gif

Cheers

Jev

erm Gary :arrgh!:
Copy of my post over at Matrix Games :woot:

Remember probably the greatest ever right-hander who adapted to left-handedness: Lord Horatio Nelson...


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With the bass, from the beginning the dominant hand needs to be able to pluck the strings leaving you to forget about it and concentrate on the recessive(?) hand. It's hard to explain something that just "feels" right but I don't ever think about my right hand on the bass, it just does its thing. The left, which makes the actual notes, has all my focus. Unless I'm slapping. My right needs a bit more attention then because I'm not really practiced enough with that style. I think what I'm trying to say is that I can let my dominant hand get on with the easy stuff and not have to worry about it allowing me to concentrate on manipulating my other hand with my full attention.

I remember my mother telling us stories about when she was in school; being told that she was writing "wrong" and being forced to write with her right hand.

Of course, mothers being what they are, they may just be stories.

I'm left handed and used to wear my watch on my left wrist but I found that the buttons kept getting pressed accidentally whenever I pulled my hand back.

Now I wear it on my right wrist. Just took a little getting used to.

Nope, it was quite common in the black and white days..:know:

Cheers

Gary

I gave this a bit of thought (an excruciating experience I reserve for only major matters) and I may have a theory: the evolution of what is now the guitar comes from a time when melody was more important than rhythm or strumming. Players used to just clamp on a chord with their left hand and very actively fingerpick with their right, or dominant, hand. The need for a high degree of agility more or less mandated the use of the dominant hand. You can still see this in the guitar styles of folk and country players...

This is just a theory; please feel free to debunk it at will. I will now busy myself getting a cold compress for my fevered, over-thought, brow...


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NOT AT ALL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnxSxeKfIFE :O:a little melody in black and white and a right hand too!