Left side, right side or middle side, I've always worked with my back & hands (he's says as he crawls up the stairs to bed) in what's considered a fairly dangerous trade & always play hard (until I got the sickness - old age) at things just as dangerous & the songs I love the most are the rough & tumble, roaring till the morning comes songs, of hard working poor people & poor hard work, like most of the people I knew in my youth. I think it makes me much more the gentleman that I am today, I also play the Bodhran in the same fashion, simple, primitive & warring (forgive me, ha ha, I couldn't resist). Barry