Left Hand Violins Becoming More Popular as Violinists Come Out of the Closet

Left hand violins have taken on a recent popularity as some concert violinists are admitting that they prefer to play left handed or have experimented with it.  If you look at a performing orchestra, you will see that they are all playing the same way, right handed.

Probably, at least a fourth of them are left-handed.  Left handers have had to learn to adapt to doing certain things right handed, but now playing the violin has come to vogue, as many professionals are making the switch and finding they are better performers.

A Left hand electric violin is available in many models.  The violin is hard to amplify by normal microphone picking up bow sounds or too muffled to hear.  Many of these violins are also made in a left hand electric violin model, and have been made popular, ever since groups like Kansas or Electric Light Orchestra made stringed orchestra sounds popular.

Left handers are normal:

In centuries past, left handedness was considered sinister or the hand of the devil. Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were criticized in the Renaissance period for being left handed.  It has been found that left handed people are more creative, since the right hemisphere controls left handers and is the artful and creative side of the brain.  Also, most left handers have had to learn to adapt to a right handed world, and have more flexibility with both hands than right handers do.

Famous people with left handedness:

Besides Leonardo daVinci and Michelangelo, there are famous left handed musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, and Paul Simon, to name a few. Albert Einstein and Presidents Bush, Obama and Clinton were all left handed.  Some of the most intelligent and creative people are left handed.  Anyone that plays a left hand violin would be considered creative and adaptable.

3 different types of left hand electric violins:

Three of the top violin brands, and may be adaptable to a left hand violin are Yamaha, Fender and Rave 5 Electric Violins.  All of these offer a rich sound and are popular among violin players

Left hand with a left handed violin is an advantage:

Because most people use their dominant hand in sports, and other activities, playing a left hand violin allows a left handed person to use the left hand as the bow hand, which is the most expressive part of violin music.  Left hand people may be capable of playing violin much better once they have mastered reversing the way they were taught.  Many times, they have an advantage over struggling to play a violin right handed, where they don’t feel comfortable enough to play confidently.  By playing left hand with a left handed instrument, they have found that they are much more capable and the music is more expressive.

Many famous violinists that are left handed have made the switch, so playing left handed is in vogue now, more than ever.