Abstract
A group of left-handers, approaching the piano for the first time, showed better performance in playing a reversed keyboard (where the pitch decreased from left to right) than a normal keyboard. By testing a separate group of "experienced" lefthanders, it was also found that this observed preference that naive left-handers had for the reversed keyboard can disappear with a few years of practice on a normal keyboard. The initial preference for the reversed keyboard shown by left-handers appeared to be specific for this handedness group, as groups of right-handers, regardless of their level of experience with the piano, performed better with the regular keyboard. Finally, based on these results it was hypothesised that lefthanders would encounter considerable frustration in learning the "right-handed" piano. However, an informal demographic study of piano students enrolling at a school of music did not reveal a substantially low prevalence of left-handed pianists.
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