Left Handed Violins??
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- čas přidán 14. 10. 2024
- We get a couple calls a week about left handed violins. Do we carry them? Can we convert a right handed violin to left handed? The answer is, "It depends".
In this video, we talk with acclaimed left-handed violinist Akiva Wax about left handed violins and what are the criteria for whether we can convert a given electric violin to left handed.
Right-handed violin for a left-handed guy is like a left-handed violin for a right-handed person! That's it, that's all!
Amen. I have a beautiful left handed violin that I ordered from a Canadian violin shop. No lefty prejudice. By the way, check out Terje Moe Hansen. He's a Danish violinist and a dang good one. Also, the little tramp, Charlie Chaplin, played lefty violin. No one corrected him. He has a few movies on youtube. One shows him playing a lefty violin.
Ironically, no one says a damn thing about you playing left handed in Europe. And, for the record, I've seen left handed instruments in Europe that are over a hundred years old. Because there were lefty violinists 100 years ago.
Do buy Ryan's book if you can.
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.......WHAT!?
True....and I can understand that when student and teacher are sitting side by side but when teaching and the student are facing each other is it not like looking into a mirror.... except the person on the other side of the mirror is making a lot of mistakes ;>).
yes BUT did you change the strings around ?
I have been playing violin left handed since I was 8 years old. I teach violin to right and left handed students as well as play gigs regularly, compete, and am working on my first solo album. I totally get the frustration of trying to find a left handed instrument! Fortunately some companies have started making left handed violins (like gliga, fiddler man, and Eastman strings), but for a professional level violin you have to go custom. All part of the adventure of being a lefty fiddler I guess.
Can you give me your telephone number it email to chat about this? I am looking fot a left handed violin and can't seem to find one 😕
Forty years ago, my violin teacher was left handed and played a left handed violin. She was a wonderful player, and a great teacher. Being right handed myself, I always felt that being able to learn by mirroring her was very convenient, so it seems strange that right handed teachers would have any resistance to taking on left handed students. Maybe they can’t get their heads around gauging a student’s form when everything is flipped.
Quite possibly the reason could be the right handed teachers don't know how to deal with the mirroring but the left-handed teacher learned with it and is comfortable mirrored or normal
Surprised it's not more common, even left-handed guitarists are still kinda rare. Yet everyone on piano typically plays melody with the right hand and accompanies with the left, which I feel translates more readily to a left-handed string instrument, or at least guitar in my experience
I'm left handed and started learning violin as an adult. I found that bowing and fingering both require a lot of dexterity so it didn't matter learning with a "right handed" violin.
Hi I'm an adult getting the chance to play a violin for the first time as well! I'm super excited! I love your comment. I had a question, my violin has the chin rest on the left side, is there a way I can switch it to the right side as I am a lefty? I saw a video that said that there isn't a such thing as left or right hand for violin and that I have a choice. Any advice since you tube isn't giving me an answer would be appreciated :)
@@Amanda-cj2ui I am learning violin in the "orthodox" position. Your chin rest is curved to be on the left side and would probably be uncomfortable if you moved it to the right. There's a special pick you use to loosen the clamp and you could possibly get a right side chin rest online.
Same here!
That's true, however it can be tricky for those of us that play a string instrument with our left hand, like I play the guitar, either way violin is super cool! I've found there are more double basses that are LH than violins.
I'm a left handed cellist and been playing for 7 years
I play left handed due to an injury to my right arm and hand. Luckily I didn't play before my injury so didn't have to overcome the conversion. The interesting thing is that I do fairly well in the left hand violin position but when I lower it to the mandolin position, as you see some players do to pluck it, I cannot play it at all. I also bought a left hand banjo hoping to play it.... well just forget that. I played right hand guitar briefly before my injury so the right hand fretting seems to be so ingrained and I can't do otherwise. My biggest issue with playing left handed is: 1) finding a decent instrument to purchase ( I would love to be able to upgrade) and 2) finding left hand accessories... just try to find chin rests, shoulder rests or tutorial videos and printed resources (tabs and instruction manuals) for left handers that don't have to converted or fiddled with before I can use them. I wish manufacturers would get onboard and realize that there is a significant number of players who would prefer or require left hand options.
Wow! That was a fantastic seminar on the left handed violin. I would never have thought it could be so problematic.
In Africa it's really hard to get a violin, I've only seen them on TV and I just know I'd be good at it. It looks so majestic when they play it. You can feel the sound right through the heart. You guys are lucky to have everything out there. 🙂
I tried a right handed violin and it did not work after 5 months. I ordered a left handed one and played my first song after 4 weeks and my wife just could not get over the change. I told her in Rock band I played right handed and got booed off stage. When I switched to left handed I made it thru 2 concerts the first time.
I have a left handed Gliga violin. It’s very pretty and has a nice warm sound. Very affordable too.
still have it?
I play guitar left handed, if I were to try to fret using my left for any other instrument it would feel bizarre lmao
Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking, I also play the guitar
I own four left-handed violins. Three are electric. All are built to be left-handed.
Wow! Same! I have 2 acoustic and two electric. All built backwards. We are a rare breed
@@akivawax6667 The rarest 👍
@@jamesmziegler which Violins do you have?
@@akivawax6667 I'll tell you about mine if you do the same. My acoustic comes from a Romanian maker called Gliga. It's my baby. I never had it set up because it played perfectly out of the box. Sometimes it seems like this violin has a mind of its own. It's got a medium stain, plays easily, and likes new strings at about two months but never gets them until three or four. The electrics originally were all Cecilios. Two of them are rebuilt. I don't think anything's left of the original except the bodies on those. The other has viola strings. It's been set up but nothing else. They would have cut a new bridge for that one too. Several tries were needed to find the right strings until I found Prelude x-shorts. All the electrics get run through a Zoom multi pedal. I've played around with creating my own tones with the settings. I'll save them, but I never keep them for long. I feel like a dog chasing his tail trying to find a perfect tone.
@@jamesmziegler I have a German violin that my teacher gave me around 10 years ago. It is left handed but I don't know if it was originally built that way. After that I got a Yamaha yev 105 that Peter seman in Chicago flipped to be left handed. After that I got a 7 string viper built for me. That's my primary work instrument. Now eric aceto built a fadolin for me. A 6 string acoustic violin. It sounds unbelievable.... I play it a ton. It has his dual pickup and mic system on it. Also amazing. I go through the line 6 helix. I have some videos on my Facebook page
So with an injury on my left hand and being a righty, why couldn’t I simply switch the chinrest to the opposite side of an acoustic? I’ll never be playing a Viper😁
Just tried an experiment on my rt handed violin-
[Having no left hand strung strung violin to hand ]
So with Etude 12 and 8 in front of me by Kreutzer on my stand I tried nr 8 and 12-
on my rt shoulder and with rt hand fingering and left hand on bow-
Impossible to negotiate upper fingering shifts on A and E strings ,let alone reach across the GDA
to the E !
What does this mean for L Handed starters who may want to eventually study the fingering and bowing
of Kreutzer and beyond
as left - handers who make musical violin progress - But -omit re -tuning the violin left to right
EADG so the high e positions are handy and close to the fingerboard fingering hand! ?
The whole question hinges on whether the instrument is rebuilt like a lh drive car or a r hand drive.
Conventionally strung double basses and cellos dont have a strong down bow from lower
to upper string chord luxury-Because they are fronm the vioal de gamba [leg]
family -Stand are standing or sitting in relation to the floor
I have been playing the violin for 8 months in the wrong way, the violin on my right shoulder with a right handed violin.
i am left handed...and would like to learn the instrument one day...which will be left handed.
4;35 Does "playing it backwards" mean " you change the strings around as well as the bow side ?
Lol my sister just friggin strung up mine backwards. I wish they weren’t so expensive.
Oh man, I thought maybe I could learn right handed and then they said ‘I can’t hold a spoon in my right hand’ and I was like …Welp that’s me 😂. Right handed mouse ✅ scissors… MAYBE, anything else not so good. 😅
I learned a Ukelele left-handed style, just did it upside down
did you change over the strings ?
Wait a minute Lefty Violins are common among musicians who have disabilities or injuries.
Please,TEll me what a VIPEr is ? BMus ACM
Pls make a video on 8 string violins
BTW love your videos ;)
at 7;42 the visual is the orchestral fingering for a leftie!!! ITs gotta be impossible if a leftie tries to read on a
right hand srtung violin!!
I seen him play in
PALESTINE... he's a very fast runner too 😳
I'm a lefty .. I need to but classical violin for left handed person.. how much does it cost
3;26 Whats more "real" about an elec [violin] or guitar ?
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Yes strong down bows are off limits -whats a "lifer "bifer "piper" ?? ;39 "left handed and plays backwards " again can you explain what this teacher did ? Have a violin rebuilt with string pegs and sound post all mirror images of conventional?
Why don't we create a groupnof left hand violnist a orchestra or something like that
Fill the pegs hole and re drill from other side
I’m left handed and play guitar and violin right handed. You are doing pretty complicated things with your left hand.
Why don’t you just make left handed violins to begin with? Then you would have to reverse it 😑. No as popular but plenty of people would buy them.
false actually re hands
we have a weak and strong hand just like you,just the other way around,we dont have strong right dexteric hands this is right hander logic
try playing left handed right now...doesnt feel right doesnt it? thats what it feels like when we play right handed
im going to buy my first violin and im left handed hahaha i remember buying my first guitar and it was a pain :D
British string Allegri quartet had l h 2nd violin James Barton
czcams.com/video/lYyAc2RqSlw/video.html One musician learned to play the Left Handed Violin after an accident.
It all because, traditionally all instruments are made for Righthanders,why because 90% of any population are Righthanded, and added to that there is this historical bias against Lefthandedness, previously in education,pupils were threatened, pressured to use their Righthand when writing, drawing etc
Backwards??
I'm having the same problems. I've had my violin for almost 3 years. I semi tried to teach myself...horrible. It's really HARD to find a teacher
Just move ppl around on a orchestra. Not a problem. Only a problem for right-hand elitist
Almost 90% of the world is right handed. Not going to happen lmfao!
YESSSS !!!
charlie chaplin played the violin left handed.
Couldn't you just flip the strings? 🤷😂
Nope. Violins may look symmetrical but they're not.
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@@ElectricViolinShop well I put my chin rest on the right side of the violin so that's not conventional either