The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #49150   Message #741255
Posted By: Mr Happy
03-Jul-02 - 05:29 AM
Thread Name: instruments: left v right?
Subject: instruments: left v right?
Why is it that some instruments are made so that you play the melody with the right hand and accompaniment with the left, while other instruments are vice versa ?

Melody: right hand = keyboards, piano, accordion, melodeon, etc

Melody: left hand = most [but not all] stringed instruments: guitar, fiddle, etc

I don't know a lot about how blown things are played, does the left/ right agenda apply here too?