tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587725.post8133863603610298219..comments2024-03-28T13:45:40.907-07:00Comments on Cruise Ship Drummer!: Handedness is dubiousTodd Bishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06814005635510193577noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7587725.post-76271255839123841902016-04-25T14:22:19.445-07:002016-04-25T14:22:19.445-07:00https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/why-music-mov...https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/why-music-moves-us/201112/is-left-handedness-disadvantage-musicians - Not sure if you've seen this article - it's from Psychology Today and summarizes a 2011 German study addressing handedness in pianists and string players. A quote from the article seems to support your position:<br /><br />"...First, left- and right-handed pianists performed equally well on the test. Being left-handed seemed not to present any disadvantages. Second, whether the pianist identified as right- or left-handed, the performance of the right hand always displayed a higher degree of evenness between notes, and therefore a higher degree of motor control, than did the left hand. And the more practice time that a left-hander had accumulated, the better the performance of his or her right hand.<br /><br />Again, researchers were a little surprised by their results and discuss several reasons why right-hand motor control might be superior even in left-handed pianists."<br /><br /><br />Here is the study itself - interestingly titled <i>No disadvantage for left-handed musicians</i>:<br />http://www.immm.hmtm-hannover.de/fileadmin/www.immm/Publikationen/Kopiez-Jabusch-etal_2012_NoDisadvantageHandedness.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com