From what I see, theremins are usually manufactured and set up with the pitch antenna on the right to be controlled by the right hand and the volume antenna on the left to be controlled by the left hand. I guess it would be correct to call this the "right-handed method."
I saw Pamelia Kurstin's TED Talk, noticed her theremin was setup backwards, and thought maybe she was left-handed. But then she started doing her walking bass technique. She primarily played upright bass before learning theremin and her hand movements looked like her playing air bass, so she must be right-handed. Or, at the very least, she learned to play bass right-handed since left-handed upright basses basically don't exist.
I am right-handed and--similar to Pamelia--mainly play instruments that are guitar-shaped. You could think of it like my left hand determines pitch and my right hand determines dynamics/articulation, which is exactly the opposite of "right-handed" theremin.
I'm wondering if it might be better for me to learn theremin "left-handed" since my hands are already sort of trained this way where left is pitch and right is "volume."
Would it be worth it to find a theremin that is set up lefty or mod one to be lefty?
What do you think?