Left handed kids - teach them to play right handed?

Roland

euan said:

It’s always telling that one of the top reasons to learn right handed is a materialistic one. 

It’s about availability rather than money.

viz

Brad said:

P.s I do actually care about other instruments, I think there should be left handed everything

Hmmmm interesting! So a piano would have bass on the right?

Roland

Sporky said:

I wonder if there is (potentially) an advantage to fretting with your non-dominant hand, in that that hand us usually stronger. Dominant hand mostly does the finer control stuff.

Probably too much a generalisation to be useful other than as something to ponder. 

After fifty something years of playing my left hand is substantially stronger than my right. Although that’s probably a chicken and egg debate. Your point about fine motor control does need pondering.

viz

I think it comes from bread and violins. You hold it with your left, and saw it with your right. 

roberty

euan said:

It’s always telling that one of the top reasons to learn right handed is a materialistic one. 

Well no. I saw some people passing around an acoustic guitar and playing songs to each other and I wanted to be able to join in. Quite the opposite of

Edit: misread your comment sightly. I would say accessibility instead of materialistic though

Brad

viz said:

Brad said:

P.s I do actually care about other instruments, I think there should be left handed everything

Hmmmm interesting! So a piano would have bass on the right?

 Was being ever so slightly silly, but yeah! Given  technology these days, it can’t be beyond us to be able to reassign a keyboard at the touch of a button? Maybe it’s possible already? Would make for an interesting experiment for left hookers anyway! 

Murray_B

Another lefty playing righty here. I think the strongest argument made so far is choosing a instrument that inspires a new player to keep on playing. There's definitely an advantage in being able to play the vast majority of available guitars, but this doesn't need to be a deciding factor. I used to make the argument that there weren't left handed pianos, then I fact checked myself:

https://www.sheargoldmusic.co.uk/kawai-announce-new-left-handed-piano/