Playing the violin “left-handed”
Maria supports students who want to learn to play the violin using a “left-handed” instrument. As a right-handed violinist she teaches left-handed students in a “mirrored” way. It is important to be well informed when making this decision, but nowadays we approach left-handedness in a different way than before: at school and in sport, as well as in music. There are violin makers who build and rent out left-handed instruments for adults and children. Left-handed violinists and cellists who started to learn right-handed and changed to left-handed playing talk about playing with more ease. On the platform for left-handed playing musicians www.linksgespielt.de you can find more information (German and English) and interviews with musicians who either played on left-handed instruments from the start or changed to left-handed playing later.
Violin makers selling or renting out left-handed instruments
Berndt & Marx OHG
Am Erlenwald 18, D-09128 Chemnitz, tel. +49-371 7200 7620
streichinstrumente-mieten.de
Mastri
Eubabrunner Str. 17, D-08258 Markneukirchen, tel. +49-89 3815 18072
streichinstrumente-verleih.de
Masurat
Jürgen-Wullenwever-Str. 26, 23566 Lübeck, tel. +49-451 68994
geigenbau-masurat.de
