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Can you get a Left handed Trumpet ?

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  • 18-10-2014 11:52PM
    #1
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭


    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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    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


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


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Hold it upside down?


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    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Hold it upside down?

    Do I have to think backwards then?

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    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


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


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    [Deleted User]
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    Turn it inside out.


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


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


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    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    I don't know, can I?

    /dad jokes


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    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Blow down the bell end.

    :pac:


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    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    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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    Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!


    Had a left handed tin whistle in school...


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    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius! wrote: »
    Had a left handed tin whistle in school...

    Tin whistles are all the same.


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    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    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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    Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!


    In Lonesome Dove wrote: »
    Tin whistles are all the same.

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


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    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,873 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    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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    In Lonesome Dove
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 479 ✭✭In Lonesome Dove


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    You be better off asking here.

    Thanks for this. Will do this tomorrow.


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


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


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Miles Davis for instance, a famous left handed player.


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    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Nothing better than a solo on the devil's clarinet


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    Knight who says Meh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Knight who says Meh


    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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    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


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


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