Apart from the general creativity of left-handers, the left-handed brain is at the centre of both the sense of rhythm and the perception of pitch, which helps to explain why so many successful composers and musicians are left-handed.
A lot of them are obvious, playing guitar left-handed or holding the microphone predominantly in their left hand, but some had to change hands at an early age because of the lack of left-handed instruments.
A lot of them are obvious, playing guitar left-handed or holding the microphone predominantly in their left hand, but some had to change hands at an early age because of the lack of left-handed instruments.
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Both of the Allman Brothers, Duane and Gregg, were natural left-handers, although they learned to play guitar right-handed.
I wish he was, but Sting is not left handed. I am cross-dominant so I play musical instruments right handed but write music left handed.
Ringo Starr is also left handed, making it half of the Beatles being lefties. Statistically this proves that left handers live longer.
Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees is also left handed, but plays rhythm guitar right handed.
On our website https://www.linksgespielt.de/en we present left-handed playing musicians in Classical music. Thank you!
Great list but Kurt Cobain was not left-handed. He purposely learned to play guitar like a lefty out of admiration for Jimmy Hendrix. That should be corrected.
You have missed out two musicians. Sir Charlie Chaplin was a comedian, but he famously played the violin left-handed in the film Limelight.
Nicola Benedetti, the classical violinist, is also left-handed. However, she plays the violin right-handed. This was mentioned in the Sunday Express newspaper a few weeks ago.