MUSIC AND LEFT-HANDED

19/02/2015

About a 10% of the population is left-handed. However, instruments and apparatus are designed to be operated with the right hand: scissors, guitars or surgical tweezers. Some can be adapted, with others you learn to operate. In certain musical instruments, the difficulty of handling is complicated, as with the piano.
This instrument, especially the tail, is designed for right; the harp and the sound box are built together, so that the tones go up the bass to the treble left to right. Although there are scores for lefties always were made to rights; is not easy to execute without proper adjustments or "translations". In the past and until recently, the punishment was severe by using the left hand to write, so that the lefthanders them was mandatory develop in an opposite world, designed to rights.
Many lefties are not known piano keyboards. However, brain plasticity, the genius and practice allow overcome many difficulties. Mozart, Beethoven and Ravel, being left-handed, composed, arranged and performed sonatas and symphonies for the right hand.
Robert Schumann executed with his left hand after an accident that affected the right, even after it was mainly devoted to the composition. He created a musical piece for piano left hand. In certain works left hand on the right crosses to play the treble (eg Mozart sonata KV 284), and in others you are required more melody to his left.

Hernando author Pacific Gnecco