Left handed piano?

[gn622]

i once heard that there was a piano where the low pitch keys are switched with the high pitched keys (sorry im sure im misusing some terminologies here since english isn't my main language :p).

this was done because in most pieces, the right hand plays the melody while the left plays the harmony,but when the switch was done it reversed the roles so that left handed players can play easily on the piano.

does such instrument really exist?

[unholeee]

i would have thought it would require ambidexterity - regardless you could try swapping the strings like those word match games.



for instance.

[pianoplayjl]

i once heard that there was a piano where the low pitch keys are switched with the high pitched keys (sorry im sure im misusing some terminologies here since english isn't my main language :p).

this was done because in most pieces, the right hand plays the melody while the left plays the harmony,but when the switch was done it reversed the roles so that left handed players can play easily on the piano.

does such instrument really exist?

Yes it does. I've even seen Fur elise being arranged for a left handed piano but I can't recall where.

JL

[derschoenebahnhof]

Here:

https://www.lefthandedpiano.com/

Interestingly, fingering remains the same (basically a 180 degrees rotation of the piano), "just" the hands are swapped 

CG

[pianolive]

Blüthner has made many special pianos. They have made a few pianos with the design reversed so that a left-handed person can play the tenor with their left hand and the bass with their right hand.

[_achilles_]

Here:

https://www.lefthandedpiano.com/

Interestingly, fingering remains the same (basically a 180 degrees rotation of the piano), "just" the hands are swapped 

CG

In that link it looks like the left handed one has 4 pedals...? Anyone know what the 4th would be?

[gvans]

I read recently that lefties are wildly overproportioned in today's touring concert pianist ranks:

 https://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/comparing_notes/archive/2009/01/left-handed_pia.shtml

Perhaps using a traditional piano gives lefties an advantage of some sort.

As a leftie myself, I find the idea of using a backwards piano a bit silly. I've always felt it's far better to learn to use your right hand when needed (scissors, surgical tools in the OR, right-hand heavy piano parts (e.g., Chopin's G# minor etude in thirds).

That way you just become more amphibious. Er, ambiguous. Ambitious?

You know what I mean...

[j_menz]

Seems completely pointless to me.

I'm right handed, but on the piano there are things I now find easier with my left hand than my right, and vice versa. That's a result of the practice they've had, not my handedness.

It may be slightly easier to pick up at the start, but only very slightly I'd have thunk. And how do you play anywhere but at home? Or find a teacher?