After a lifetime of playing, I've had plenty of ills from the concentrated, repetitive movements of specific-handed instruments (and sports like baseball and tennis - which btw max I've always done yoga to deal with "tennis/pitcher's elbow" and anything/everything else). I've had to take long breaks from guitar, double bass, etc. As a drummer I particularly enjoy instruments with equilateral ergonomics - harp, english concertina, some degree with some types of accordions, etc. Playing stringed instruments is all of a kind, and none are particularly technically challenging - from cello/DB to mndln - after a lifetime. But non-stringed types of instruments can be challenging, so those are the ones I play these days when I want to learn something; I love the balance. I occasionally fiddle around L-handed just for sport, but I like the equilateral ones for musical execution.
That goes for sports as well - no more pitching baseballs for me.
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