Are you Left or Right Handed?

**bitingmidge** · 3rd June 2005, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by Iain

And I found a bloke in Melb who sells only left handed guitars!

Now there's the crux of it. A right handed person should find it extemely difficult to play a stringed instrument using the left hand to form all the notes.. heaven knows I do!!

So really isn't a left handed guitar for right handed people? And therefore haven't all we right handers learnt to play instruments the "other" way. Which explains why there area disproportionate number of Cack Handers excelling in the arts, they are doing it their way!!

My old man was and brother is a lefty, and apart from writing, both used tools right handed, and I also try to do everything possible with each hand.

Not arguing that there is a favoured hand, nor that everyone should use the same one, but most things we do are learnt behaviours..... if you don't believe me, why can left handers type on a "right handers" keyboard??

Why do we find it difficult to change gear with our right hands when we drive left hand drive cars?? That's something that all right handed people manage in this country quite well, so what's the difference between that, and learning to hold a saw in the other hand?

Cheers,

P

**DavidG** · 3rd June 2005, 03:29 PM

My daughter (9) can use either hand for anything but seems to prefere the left for writing.

The really odd thing is to watch her colouring in a picture with a coloured pencil in each hand (different colours) working in two different sections of the drawing at the same time. :eek:

**Ashore** · 3rd June 2005, 05:12 PM

I'm right handed
but a lot of my tools are left handed , screwdrivers, hammers, hand saws. planes, files, chisels, pens, pencils , even my coffee mug and as I dont have a problem using them does this make me Ambidextrous

Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.

**Gingermick** · 3rd June 2005, 06:12 PM

[QUOTE=jackiew] when I'm on the phone as I have a long neck and therefore can't seem to wedge the phone between my shoulder and ear like other people can.QUOTE]

Originally Posted by jackiew

I must be left footed though ...

I'm left footed too.

I fell on my head a few years ago and lost the hearing in my right ear. Now I can only hold the phone with my left hand to left ear.
Being deaf in one ear is useful with young kids tho. Good ear on pillow sleep like a log.

I can also use either hand for anything.
Just not very well

**knucklehead** · 3rd June 2005, 06:16 PM

very right handed.

Infact about the only use for my left hand is to stop my watch sliding off my arm. If I try and pick my nose with the left hand I'm just as likely to stick a finger in my eye.

**E. maculata** · 3rd June 2005, 08:33 PM

1 in 7 I'm led to believe, Granma was a true ambidextrous, Mum is pretty well ambi, I'm ambi, but if forced will lead with my left, pay tennis, squash, and cricket equally as bad either way, SWMBO is a true lefty, Mini swmbo is also a true lefty and the odd man out is my son, he seems to a 6/7 type a righty.....oh well he can't be perfect like some of us

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**johnc** · 3rd June 2005, 10:36 PM

I'm mainly left handed but right handed for odd things. With knife and fork its right, with spoon and fork its left, which seems odd. I can write with the right hand but badly and only because I injured a couple of fingers many years ago and was forced to use the right for a few weeks, I ended up almost legible. With tools its left hand, but shovel both ways equally well, same with spanners, and on it goes. Sounds as though most others are the same not quite consistant with the favoured hand.

JohnC

**Harry72** · 4th June 2005, 09:25 AM

I remember at school my cricket team had a ambidextrous batsman, the bowler would be running up and he'd change stance while they approach and confuse the hell out of them... until the ump's banned him from doing it!

**julianx** · 4th June 2005, 08:11 PM

I work with a left handed builder somtimes I can't watch him use a power saw, scares me too much. I'm always waiting for it to kick back and cut him in half. My son is a molly duker I think I'll teach him to use power saws right handed when he's old enough to use one.

**julianx** · 4th June 2005, 08:16 PM

I read somwhere that societies that have/had larger than average numbers of left handed people tended to be more violent societies

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