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Can you get a Left handed Trumpet ?

uch · 2014-10-18 22:52:52

Just listening to Chet Baker and thinking, I could never do that cause I'm a Leftie. Can you get left handed Trumpets ?

18-10-2014 10:52pm

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Just listening to Chet Baker and thinking, I could never do that cause I'm a Leftie. Can you get left handed Trumpets ?

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#2 18-10-2014 10:54pm

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No, you can't play trumpet if you are left handed, your brain isn't advanced enough

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#3 18-10-2014 10:55pm

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Hold it upside down?

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#4 18-10-2014 10:58pm

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The Backwards Man wrote: »

Hold it upside down?

Do I have to think backwards then?

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#5 18-10-2014 10:59pm

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No, my flute can be played with by either hand though.

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Turn it inside out.

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#7 18-10-2014 11:36pm

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Of course you can get a left hand trumpet, it's called a bugle.

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#8 18-10-2014 11:43pm

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I don't know, can I?

/dad jokes

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#9 18-10-2014 11:56pm

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Blow down the bell end.

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#10 19-10-2014 12:01am

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Serious answer: Yes.

Not sure what good it'd do you though. Chet Baker had his front teeth knocked out. Should have ended his brass career as he shouldn't have been able to form a decent embouchure, but didn't. Hardy buck!

So, after you get your LH trumpet, you'll have to take a mallet to your front teeth if you want to sound like Chet.

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#11 19-10-2014 12:05am

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Had a left handed tin whistle in school...

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#12 19-10-2014 12:13am

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Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius! wrote: »

Had a left handed tin whistle in school...

Tin whistles are all the same.

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#13 19-10-2014 12:15am

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Is there anywhere in Ireland or the north or online that would do custom made tin whistles. I need a tin whistle made up with some special dimensions.

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#14 19-10-2014 12:16am

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In Lonesome Dove wrote: »

Tin whistles are all the same.

That was the joke...crappy joke...but still!

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#15 19-10-2014 12:18am

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In Lonesome Dove wrote: »

Is there anywhere in Ireland or the north or online that would do custom made tin whistles. I need a tin whistle made up with some special dimensions.

You be better off asking here.

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#16 19-10-2014 12:19am

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The Hill Billy wrote: »

You be better off asking here.

Thanks for this. Will do this tomorrow.

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#17 19-10-2014 2:09am

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It doesn't matter, you'll learn from the left. It's not like guitar.

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#18 19-10-2014 2:18am

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Miles Davis for instance, a famous left handed player.

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#19 19-10-2014 6:29am

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Nothing better than a solo on the devil's clarinet

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#20 19-10-2014 7:12am

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uch wrote: »

Just listening to Chet Baker and thinking, I could never do that cause I'm a Leftie. Can you get left handed Trumpets ?

You cant get lefts handed pianos either............:rolleyes:;)
When you start playing an instrument the actions required are equally alien to either hand so it matters not a jot if you are left handed.
Many guitar teachers dont or wont teach newbie lefties any differently or on a reversed guitar. Theres no point and its head wrecking for the teacher!
If you think about the guitar in the hands of a right handed person, the left hand, the supposedly weaker, less dexterous hand is doing all the work of forming chords and pressing down HARD on 6 lengths of steel wire. All the right hand has to do is beat out a rhythm.

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#21 19-10-2014 7:21am

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How about getting a rusty trombone instead?Or a rusty trumpet for the ladies.

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