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From: Bobbie Giordano
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 15:24:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: What's Right and Who's Left?

Handedness Survey:
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Some of you may have missed a post I made to Harp-L three weeks ago with
respect to how or if handedness affects the way harpers handle their
harmonicas when playing. I did sort of bury it in one of my typically
loquacious posts, so it might have been overlooked. Here's a part of
that post, along with a request from me for any and all participation.
I did start to do this last year and got sidetracked then, too, and got
busy collaberating on designing a new harmonica or something like that,
and well... what can I say?

So if you'd like to respond, please send your answers to these few
questions to me at the email address given below. This is the last time
I will post these survey questions before compiling the results. Thanks
for all your patience.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>Reprint of text from 14 October, 1996<<<<<<<<<<<<<

From: Bobbie Giordano
To: Harp~arply.com
Subject: What's Right and Who's Left?

On 14 Oct 1996, Mattias Frisk responded to BBBean's mention of Bobby Rush
holding his harps upside down when playing them:

> Thanks a lot for that info. Till now I thought I was the only harp player in
> the world holding the harp upside down...
>
> Any more upsidedownharpers out there??? Don't be afraid - just come out...

Maybe I was just waiting for such a reminder, but along about some short
era ago, I decided to poll Harp-Lers for right or left handedness, and
whether or not it affected the way they held their harmonicas. Numerous
responses were received, and I promised to post the results, once I was
able to compile them into some sort of orderly fashion. Then, somehow, I
let it slip by, got involved with other things, designing coverplates, and
what have you, and I never did publish the results.

Sooo...and I've been thinking about this, because a considerable number of
new harpsters have come aboard H-L since then...I suppose that, before I
post the first survey results, I could pick up where I left off and reopen
the questionaire. I found from the replies I got to my query that there
were several aspects players identified with their handedness regarding
their styles of holding and playing harp, so I tried to simplify [for my
own selfish sake, thank you] by eventually asking just these few questions:

(1) Do you consider yourself lefthanded or righthanded?
(2) Do you hold the harmonica with the numbers facing up on the top or
below on the bottom?
(3) With which hand do you primarily hold the harmonica, left or right?
(4) Which hand do you use to fan the harmonica for effects, "wah-wah",
etc.?
(5) If you use a mic, with which hand do you hold it to the harp?

For those who already wrote me last time [Yeow! It was a year ago!] I do
not need you to resend your answers, as I still have them, and I will send
a separate note to you all in case you've forgotten whether you responded
or not, just to let you know I have your answers and to save myself some
aggravation. :) Of course, if you have changed anything since then in
your playing style, please feel free to update me.

Thanks again y'all!

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