Left handed players

[MrGongGong]

I do remember reading many years ago that it was the state dictat in Albania that children had to be brought up right handed, to the point that being left handed was virtually illegal!

Oi, NO POLITICS

(you are without Wisdom )

[Beef Oven!]

I think there is quite a lot of research into this area as the playing of musical instruments is a very discreet skill that is fairly easily studied

http://pom.sagepub.com/content/22/2/148.short

This seems to be quite widely cited

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8373577

and so on

http://musicweb.hmtm-hannover.de/kop...Handedness.pdf

Some interesting information in there. And fascinating to note that in one, they say that the findings are not a consequence of musical training. Music inherently attracts more left/dual-handed people?
Some talk about 'multi handed' people rather than 'dual handed'. How many hands have they got!!??

[Beef Oven!]

Oi, NO POLITICS

(you are without Wisdom )

[french frank]

I have never fully understood why right handed batsmen face the way they do, given that they are taught to lead with the left hand, and use the right mainly for control.

I don't think that's true. The right hand and shoulder give strength to the stroke (the 'forehand'), the left one ('backhand') controls the direction.

Left-handed string players in an orchestra poke people's eyes out.

[teamsaint]

I don't think that's true. The right hand and shoulder give strength to the stroke (the 'forehand'), the left one ('backhand') controls the direction.

Left-handed string players in an orchestra poke people's eyes out.

Batsmen, back in my day, were often taught to play with just the left hand in the nets, to develop the arm that directs the shot, adding power with the right hand later. so the left hand is really the dominant shot making hand.
I meant really that the right hand is used for extra control ( and power).

[french frank]

I meant really that the right hand is used for extra control ( and power).

What do I know? I were a bowler, best figures 6 for 3 when I was about 12 (age) …

Anyway, my other point was about left-handed string players.

[MrGongGong]

In a famous orchestra was a Violist who had something hidden in his case. Nobody knew what he had. At the beginning of every rehearsal he watched in his case to see if it was still there. At the moment he retired his colleagues were finally allowed to look in his case. In it was a little note saying: Viola left hand, bow right hand!

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[teamsaint]

What do I know? I were a bowler, best figures 6 for 3 when I was about 12 (age) …

Anyway, my other point was about left-handed string players.

I was a bowler too, so what do I know too......!!
6 for 3 ...very good.

I was once in a last wicket partnership of 50, out of which I got 2 !!
Can't remember my best figures, but John Denham once took a catch off my bowling behind the stumps !!

anyway, yes, left handed string players....dangerous AND untidy !!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I played for my school once. I spent a long time at the crease and ran a considerable number of times between the stumps. As I walked back to the pavilion (more like a shed) I received rapturous applause.
"How many did you score, Alpie?"
"One".

Michael, the captain, had scored most of the runs the crowd had witnessed.

[Beef Oven!]

I played for my school once. I spent a long time at the crease and ran a considerable number of times between the stumps. As I walked back to the pavilion (more like a shed) I received rapturous applause.
"How many did you score, Alpie?"
"One".

Michael, the captain, had scored most of the runs the crowd had witnessed.

You were called 'Alpie' back then??

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

You were called 'Alpie' back then??

Of course. My name hasn't changed. My 3 year-old granddaughter is called Eine Kleine Alpensinfonie.

[french frank]

Of course. My name hasn't changed. My 3 year-old granddaughter is called Eine Kleine Alpensinfonie.

[Nick Armstrong]

Of course. My name hasn't changed. My 3 year-old granddaughter is called Eine Kleine Alpensinfonie.

"Foothill" to her friends.

A chip off the old block no doubt.

[Beef Oven!]

Of course. My name hasn't changed. My 3 year-old granddaughter is called Eine Kleine Alpensinfonie.

[MrGongGong]

"Foothill" to her friends.

A chip off the old block no doubt.

I thought there were the Drumlin Twins ?