Is the guitar the only instrument made in left-handed versions?

My Alembic plays Am notes in any configuration.

So do I.


Actually, my stand up bass is bi-dextrous.

The piano? 

SteveStrummerUK


 
And are there any truly ambidextrous instruments?

yes

Beagle

Janet


The piano? 

I don't think a piano is ambidextrious.  the left hand always plays the lower frequencies and the right hand always plays upper.  upper is attributed to melodic, lower is attributed to "bass" or accompaniment.
 
in fact, there are left handed pianos.
 
http://lefthandedpiano.com/

That is soooo interesting.   Thanks for the link.   At the bottom they have a link for a midi converter to change a keyboard to left handed.     Imagine, as a prank, hooking that up and letting someone play. 

Katie_Katie

Beagle

Janet


The piano? 

I don't think a piano is ambidextrious.  the left hand always plays the lower frequencies and the right hand always plays upper.  upper is attributed to melodic, lower is attributed to "bass" or accompaniment.
 
in fact, there are left handed pianos.
 
http://lefthandedpiano.com/

That is soooo interesting.   Thanks for the link.   At the bottom they have a link for a midi converter to change a keyboard to left handed.     Imagine, as a prank, hooking that up and letting someone play. 

Tell that to Borah Bergmann... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borah_Bergman

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=19608

 ...mad about people who can play melody lines with both hands...

Katie_Katie

Beagle

Janet


The piano? 

I don't think a piano is ambidextrious.  the left hand always plays the lower frequencies and the right hand always plays upper.  upper is attributed to melodic, lower is attributed to "bass" or accompaniment.
 
in fact, there are left handed pianos.
 
http://lefthandedpiano.com/

That is soooo interesting.   Thanks for the link.   At the bottom they have a link for a midi converter to change a keyboard to left handed.     Imagine, as a prank, hooking that up and letting someone play. 

Oprah Foosball days is over tho.

Dear Mr. Straummy,


Most wind instrument are setup to be played with both hands but I'd submit that it's like the piano in that most (if not all) notes are distributed between each hand and cannot be interchanged (I guess you could turn a tuba or a trombone upside down ala Hendrix if you really want to stand out in the band). 

mike_mccue


I have a left handed snare drum.

Aha, some people think drummers are stupid, but that's just a marketing ploy and I saw through it.

So now I just get a standard right handed drum turn it upside down and play it with my foot.

You'll have to get up early to catch me out.

I just be jealous of people who can play melody lines with both hands..or change between melody/chords and hands..at will.

bapu






BTW what that heck are melody/chords?

Hi,

Naah! Melodies and chords are meaningless! Indeed dialectical critical realism may be seen under the aspect of Foucauldian strategic reversal-of the unholy trinity of Parmenidean/Platonic/Aristotelean provenance; of the Cartesian-Lockean-Humean-Kantian paradigm; of foundationalisms (in practice, fideistic foundationalisms) and irrationalisms (in practice, capricious exercises of the will-to-power or some other ideologically and/or psycho-somatically buried source) new and old alike; of the primordial failing of western philosophy, ontological monovalence, and its close ally, the epistemic fallacy with its ontic dual; of the analytic problematic laid down by Plato, which Hegel served only to replicate in his actualist monovalent analytic reinstatement in transfigurative reconciling dialectical connection, while in his hubristic claims for absolute idealism he inaugurated the Comtean, Kierkegaardian and Nietzschean eclipses of reason, replicating the fundaments of positivism through its transmutation route to the superidealism of a Baudrillard."

jamesg1213

bapu






BTW what that heck are melody/chords?

Hi,

Naah! Melodies and chords are meaningless! Indeed dialectical critical realism may be seen under the aspect of Foucauldian strategic reversal-of the unholy trinity of Parmenidean/Platonic/Aristotelean provenance; of the Cartesian-Lockean-Humean-Kantian paradigm; of foundationalisms (in practice, fideistic foundationalisms) and irrationalisms (in practice, capricious exercises of the will-to-power or some other ideologically and/or psycho-somatically buried source) new and old alike; of the primordial failing of western philosophy, ontological monovalence, and its close ally, the epistemic fallacy with its ontic dual; of the analytic problematic laid down by Plato, which Hegel served only to replicate in his actualist monovalent analytic reinstatement in transfigurative reconciling dialectical connection, while in his hubristic claims for absolute idealism he inaugurated the Comtean, Kierkegaardian and Nietzschean eclipses of reason, replicating the fundaments of positivism through its transmutation route to the superidealism of a Baudrillard."

I think this is also Bobby Crush's take on it.

Hubristic claims indeed...