This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Dave, >>A couple of days late(my phone line was down for a couple of days, so = no connect), but I had to chime in. I'm a left ear guy, too. Are = people who are left-handed more prone to being right-eared?? The = possibilities are endless.=20 Well, about 90% of the population is left-handed. Of those people, = almost all are left-dominant for language. Of the 10% of left handed = folks, about half are left-dominant for language, and half are = right-dominant. So yes, handedness is an indication of brain = lateralization, loosely. I would fully expect that this lateralization = of "ear" function follows the lines of language lateralization, so I'd = guess that about half of the lefties would prefer listening to beats = with their left ears and tones with their right ears, while *perhaps* a = slight majority of right-handed folks would prefer the opposite. I bet = this would be a pretty weak preference, though.=20 I would guess that a much more influential determinant of a piano = tuner's ear preference is postural. Think about it: It's going to be = easier to turn one ear or the other towards the piano, depending on = which hand holds the tuning hammer. I bet that's the ear that gets the = most training and becomes the tuner's "critical ear." Fortunately for = 95% of you, these would just happen to align, with the ear towards the = piano feeding info directly to the language-dominant hemisphere (which = would presumably be more adept at decoding sound patterns like beats). Peace, Sarah ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/62/e8/03/01/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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