My 4 and 5 year old pupils have no problems changing hands for newly learned
skills on
drums and xylophones. But most have a favored hand they start with...
Stephan
Am 10 Jan 2009 um 17:03 hat Christopher Stetson geschrieben:
> Oh, well...
>
> BTW, I'm an Early Childhood Educator. While I've got you, do you know
> anything about what age laterality can be identified (if, as we're
> questioning here, it can in fact be identified at all)? And if, of course,
> this isn't getting WAY too far OT.
>
> Best,
> Chris.
>
> >>> Martin Shepherd <mar...@luteshop.co.uk> 1/10/2009 4:53 PM >>>
> Dear Chrisopher,
>
> In my previous life I was a cognitive psychologist with an interest in
> neuroscience - and I have to say that laterality (handedness, as we
> doctors call it) is a poorly understood topic...
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Martin
>
> Christopher Stetson wrote:
>
> >Dear all,
> >I'm RH, and I do all those things opposite to how Martin does! Though, in
> >my years as a pipe-organ technician, I did learn to be more ambidextrous;
> >when you're on your back in a 24" x 24" (61x61 cm.) crawl space that's
> >coated with several decades of dust, and that screw is way up on over your
> >left shoulder, you use your left hand.
> >
> >However, I think it's time we got a neuroscientist or two in on this. Do we
> >have any crossover?
> >
> >Best to all,
> >Chris.
> >
> >
> >
> >>>>Martin Shepherd <mar...@luteshop.co.uk> 1/10/2009 4:24 PM >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >Dear Dan and All,
> >
> >The most interesting thing about this is once you start to ask people
> >what they actually do, there is much more "ambidextrous" activity than
> >we might assume. By the way, I think you pick up the phone in your left
> >hand because (like me and other RH) you need to be able to write with
> >the other (R) hand.
> >
> >I unscrew lids (as does my wife, who is also RH) by holding the jar in
> >my RH and doing the unscrewing with my left. But I suspect this is
> >because you naturally pick up objects with RH and then (de facto) have
> >to operate on them with the other hand. Having said that, I can't
> >imagine being able to unscrew difficult lids with my RH (I've tried) so
> >habit is obviously a big factor. My RH (and arm) is theoretically
> >stronger than my left, but I always use my left hand for anything which
> >requires strength. I am very sympathetic to Robert Lundberg's view that
> >as a luthier it helps to learn to do things both ways (though I have not
> >tried very hard to do so).
> >
> >Even more OT - my younger son, when aged about 4, if given a pen in his
> >LH, would write his name from L to R, correctly. If you gave him the
> >pen in his RH, he wrote perfect mirror writing from R to L. We thought
> >he would turn out as a leftie (as is my older son, who plays the cello
> >RH), but in fact he has turned into a rightie. We're all mixed up....
> >
> >Best wishes,
> >
> >Martin
> >
> >Daniel Winheld wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Fascinating stuff, all this lefty-righty business. I am completely
> >>"right" oriented below the neck, (hands, feet, body
> >>language/movements) and totally "left" head; I automatically pick up
> >>the phone LH to put it to my left ear, and automatically put
> >>single-vision opticals to my left eye. Born with the wrong head?
> >>Heads switched at birth in the nursery? Have I been paired with the
> >>wrong body- or the wrong head all these years? HELP! -Twilight Zone
> >>material for sure.
> >>
> >>Dan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> this all left hand right hand stuff is all hogwash in my opinion. Left
> >>>> Handed Piano? why bother? on the assumption that the weakest hand plays
> >>>> the basses? didn't Ravel write a Piano concerto for the left hand
> >>>> only? As Miles said, instruments that require two hands should be
> >>>> required to play with equal dexterity. Who says the right on the
> >>>> guitar requires more dexterity than the left hand, its two totally
> >>>> different things. My left hand is not stronger than my right hand, yet
> >>>> I consider pushing down on the strings and playing bar chords more
> >>>> physical than plucking strings.... and definitely more physical than
> >>>> strumming.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>This fascinating topic comes up every so often and I'd disagree with
> >>>Bruno. I'm left-handed ('cack-handed' as my mother used to say) and
> >>>play right-handedly. Even after years
> >>>of playing right-handedly if I were to attempt to play 'air
> >>>guitar', air lute', or mime playing a plucked instrument, I
> >>>spontaneously do so left-handedly. (And I can't do it
> >>>right-handedly.)
> >>>
> >>>It's not just a matter of strength; if you are left-handed you hold
> >>>a pen, a paint brush, a tool with that hand. Delicate, fiddly things
> >>>you do with that hand - and on a plucked instrument I'm sure it
> >>>would be better and more natural to use that hand to actually
> >>>produce the sound on the strings.
> >>>
> >>>I try paying with a plectrum sometimes and just now I picked one up.
> >>>I picked it up with my left hand and passed it to my right hand to
> >>>play.
> >>>
> >>>So playing right-handed, it you're left-handed, is a bit perverse I
> >>>think - but it makes life easier.
> >>>
> >>>Stuart
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>We play the instrument the way we were shown how to play
> >>>> it. I know a Venezuelan woman who plays left handed cuatro, without
> >>>> reversing the strings, although I believe she is right handed ( I will
> >>>> find out)...simply because her nanny played that way....
> >>>>
> >>>> it is not the weakest or strongest hand that dictates how you play, it
> >>>> just turns out that way and how the instruments were designed.
> >>>>
> >>>> Right handed lutenist who wishes he could play left hand, cause his
> >>>> left hand is slowly getting crippled due to disease.... I may be
> >>>> forced one day to learn how to play the other way around...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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