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Offline chopinaninoff

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Left hand piano?
on: June 04, 2011, 01:41:01 PM

...Ive never seen something like this.

Offline countrymath

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Re: Left hand piano?
Reply #1 on: June 04, 2011, 02:58:55 PM
I've heard somethind about it.
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Offline perfect_pitch

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Re: Left hand piano?
Reply #2 on: June 05, 2011, 05:01:45 AM
Surely that can't be real... I mean, if you learnt on one of those things from the very beginning - then you'd only be able to play on those pianos for the rest of your life, or have to completely be able to reverse your entire physical way of playing.

I knew it couldn't have been a mirror, and I presumed someone had just flipped the image around in editing it.

What the hell would be the point really? Is it that hard to be left handed and to play the piano?

Were any of the major composers left handed???

Offline pianisten1989

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Re: Left hand piano?
Reply #3 on: June 05, 2011, 09:21:06 AM
Though, it didn't seem to help him very much...

Offline djealnla

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Re: Left hand piano?
Reply #4 on: June 05, 2011, 01:53:28 PM
Were any of the major composers left handed???

Off the top of my head, at least Beethoven and C. P. E. Bach.

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Re: Left hand piano?
Reply #5 on: June 05, 2011, 06:47:04 PM
Though, it didn't seem to help him very much...

Sorta yeah  :P

But these pianos exist. I don't think it's a fake.

Offline faulty_damper

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Re: Left hand piano?
Reply #6 on: June 05, 2011, 10:37:49 PM
Left hand pianos do exist.  It's not a fake.

Offline perfect_pitch

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Re: Left hand piano?
Reply #7 on: June 06, 2011, 12:36:26 AM
Okay... but do you seriously think they actually need to be built???

Is there such a thing as a left handed violin? A left handed Glockenspiel? Left handed Triangle???

(that last one was a joke)

Just for fun... I would love to see someone play a piece on a left handed piano, playing it on the standard piano just for fun to see what it would sound like.    ;D

(I am a horrible bastard aren't I?)

Offline keys60

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Re: Left hand piano?
Reply #8 on: June 06, 2011, 01:40:54 AM
Okay... but do you seriously think they actually need to be built???

Is there such a thing as a left handed violin? A left handed Glockenspiel? Left handed Triangle???

Offline keys60

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Re: Left hand piano?
Reply #9 on: June 06, 2011, 01:43:23 AM
About as much as Jimi Hendrix needed to play his guitar lefty, Paul McCartny his bass and yes, although not as common, there are lefty violins and cellos. The bridge and fingerboard have to be cut and mounted with different angles and strung up in reverse.

Not sure about the triangle. :)

Some lefty's just can't deal in a righty world.
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