Sarah:  Fair enough; though the majority of instruments were certainly designed with the assumption of right, not left-handedness.  Lefthanders do seem more dextrous (if you'll excuse the term) with their less-favoured hand than do righthanders, generally because circumstances force them to be.  Mind you, there isn't much I can't do with my left hand (except as described below!), though I've never taken the time to learn to write or draw accurately with it, having been lucky enough not to have needed to.

'Spaw:  Really just that I always seemed to find myself having to cross hands in what was, for me, an uncomfortable fashion.  I was trying to play melody with my right hand and bass with my left -as you'd do on a keyboard- but having the bass on the right was, for me, the opposite of what seemed like a natural setup; it would have felt more natural to me, at the time, to have started with the lowest note at bottom left and the highest at top right, as in most stringed instruments.  That's the best I can manage by way of explanation, and I never became an accomplished enough player to get beyond that, though I still intend to get the thing set up and working again one day...

Malcolm