In <59rm40$m90 at shellx.best.com> rlk at best.com (rlk) writes:
>>>Following up on Rene V. J. Bertain's interesting article:
>>The violinist has his left ear quite close to the instrument and the
right
>ear relatively far away. It would be interesting to compare pitch
>discrimination in the two ears of violinists. (Or has that been
done?)
>Actually I vaguely recall a study of which ear dominated in trained
musicians, in general. By recollection, it was left dominant, but I'd
say there's only a 50% chance of this being true (at best) :-)
However, violinists ear preference would not be relavant as to why
cellists, bassists, er-hu, oud and gadulka players have the left hand
doing the pitch oriented work. It's an interesting topic tho.
Ginny
