[Trombone-l] Trombone for new elementary school player

[thetubameister@roadrunner.com]

Most definitely a valid point.  And I'm glad to have NOT been asked to make this conversion.  But there are some folks over the years of the sinister hand that I just thought... you know... It might be easier if it was reversed.  Same thing applies to fiddles too.  But we are ultimately - at the base level -  the most reversable instrument next to percussion.

Now French horns, however, need to come back the the right side fingering :-)

J.c.

---- Eric Swanson <boneman88 at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
> 
> On Mar 4, 2009, at 1:47 PM, <thetubameister at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 
> > I gotta ask, for the sake of argument - Why not?  Assuming they're  
> > left-handed, shouldn't they play left handed?  I know a great left  
> > handed trumpet player.  And trombone may be the most reversible  
> > instrument in history.
> >
> >
> 
> J.c.,
> 
> Reversible, until they want to get an F attachment horn or a bass  
> trombone.  Then they are looking at a pretty expensive custom job to  
> have one made.  I have built a left-handed Benge 190F for a guy, and  
> it wasn't cheap.
> 
> Eric Swanson
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