Is guitar/bass the only instruments made either left or right handed?

shufflebeat

The question of whether a leftie should be taught to play right handed crops up regularly. It usually settles between, "it makes no difference" and, "it makes all the difference in the world" but there isn't really any way to benchmark or control a study so it's hard to get beyond that.

My experience is that orchestral players often have conventional technique imposed on them for reasons of expedience, people who learn on their own tend towards the rhythm being better in their writing hand but will sometimes deliberately or unwittingly go with convention.

I am a leftie and play like one.

P.S. It's not so long ago that my uncle was beaten by the (not so) Christian Brothers for writing with his left hand so my position on this is a little bit politicised.

HCDavies

I tried it a few times many moons ago without success, reasoning that the dexterity couldn't harm. So I had a think after reading through this thread. 

I've tuned an acoustic to an open major chord, turned it over put a slide on my right hand. And some horrible and some less horrible sounds have appeared. Now all I need to do is (as always) practice. If I can get my left hand to strum I'll see how far it takes me. 

Futile maybe, but there's f' all else to do at the moment. At least it'll keep me thinking.

octatonic

https://www.viento-querfloeten.de/en/left-handed-concert-flute.html