Rachel and Casey, you two took the words right out of my mouth.

hahaha, oh yes, because of our glorious musical minds, we think alike

i play left handed using a regular cello. it may take a little ingenuity, a keen ear, and a lot of practice - but it`s all about your style.

Gliga make left handed cellos. But I agree with everyone else that you should only consider playing that way as a very last resort and then only if you are absolutely certain that you will never want to play in an orchestra or a string quartet.

Liz

i was wondering if anyone had a left handed piano for sale out there? hmmmmmmmmmm seems to me that maybe if i took all the strings out and reversed them, abacradaba! now i have a piano that is backwads! perfect for all you leftys out there.........point being, you play the insterment the way it was made to be played. not the way you want it to be played. if you dont feel natural with it you need to practice ALOT more. everthing will come together if you let it, so dont fight it. just play. by the way i was thinking about ripping the interior out of my car and moving the trasmition to the left side so my shifter can come out by my good hand :>

james, you took the words out of my mouth, exept for the transmission thing which is very funny. The strange thing is that poeple in the U.S.A. drive on the left side of the car and people in Europe drive on the right side of the car.So does that mean that you leftys would rather drive a European car?

hey there! i´m lefthanded myself and have started playing the cello last september. actually i think i even have an advantage to be lefthanded. firstly i thought about recontruction the cello into a lefthanded one but that´s just silly! so, go for it! 8with a "normal" one!)

btw, soory for my poor englsih, i´m german :P

sean you say bullsit. In Europe we drive in the left as in USA . Only in United Kingdom an Cyprus they drive in the rightside.As for the cello i have read that if a lefthanded plays like righhanded he could only play as good as 80% of a righthanded.Soo i think a left-handed cello is better to buy.I am thinking of doing that cause i am lefthanded. The other thing about orchestra is that i have seen left-handed violinists. They just play in the left side.it is not that big deal.And one more thing.A lot of guitar performers play with left-handed guitars and they are great performers. I guess you`ve seen lots of them.

manousos, that wasn`t quite my point.

...The strange thing is that poeple in the U.S.A. drive on the left side of the car and people in U.K./Cyprus drive on the right side of the car. So does that mean that you leftys would rather drive a U.K./Cyprus car?...

Get it?!

If you shall be playing in an orchestra it could be a problem lika Sean? said. But if you playing in a rock band where you run around at a stage I think you should go for a lefty cello. But it`s kind of expensive though.

You`re born lefthanded or righthanded. At least the scientist are saying so. (They did not a hundred years ago but we also thought that the world was flat.

Good luck.

I guess we just give ourselves tasks that requires us to use one hand sometimes like writing with a pencil or pen, but when playing a cello for instance, both hands are used equally. So in other words FORGET ABOUT BEING LEFT OR RIGHT HANDED!!!!!!

Wow, a harsh thread, very interesting though.
About the right-hand left-hand people, I'm sure it's in the genes, humans weren't specifically made to write, use scissors, etc. so it wouldn't have mattered to a caveman wether he/she was right or left-handed. My dad was born left-handed, but writing japanese in left hand would be a hassle, so he was taught to use his right hand, so now he uses both hands, switches every few days.

Ah, anyways... considering all (i'm not 100% sure) instruments use both hands, why bother for a left-handed cello? I'm thinking you'd have an advantage...? When I play the flute and trill a G, I have to use the left hand and it's hard, but with practice I can do it. Piano, same thing, some pieces demand super speed for the left hand, complicated fingerings, but you practice and then you can play it.

I hope you people know like ANYTHING at all about the way the brain works and that different people have one side more developed than the other(hence different hand being stronger) It is hereditary. My family is right handed and my little bro is the only lefty. He considered playing guitar lefthanded but our guitar is set up for my dad who is righthanded, thus he learned it opposite. Although I think Sean has no clue what he's talking about, it is possible to learn it either way just because you do use BOTH hands to play. Both positions and picking(bowing in your case) are integral parts of playing. Maybe if you played trumpet or something with just one hand I could see an issue but I don't know. Of course then again, they even sell left-handed flutes(which is also played with two hands) so maybe there is a difference. I would test it out both ways before making a decision.

...I hope you people know like ANYTHING at all about the way the brain works and that different people have one side more developed than the other(hence different hand being stronger) It is hereditary...

-No!, it's more along the line of "If your so-called right handed, then you will want to use your right hand more, therefore your right hand will be stronger because it gets more exercise"
--of course


-Oh, the piano is a perfect example of right/left-handed people. I guess we all are just screwed because we wont be able to use our other hand while playing the piano because both hands have to be used equally, "yet they learn".

We are new to world of cello that our nine year old son is beginning. He is left handed, and his natural tendency is to pluck and hold the bow in his left hand. We are concerned that he is being forced to conform.