Left handed tárogató!

... With a crystal mouthpiece.

The question for having a "reversed" keyset would be, "Why?"
 
pete said:
... With a crystal mouthpiece.

The question for having a "reversed" keyset would be, "Why?"
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Dunno. This left-handed dude seems to do just fine with a regular instrument:
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The ligature screws...

...are on the traditional right hand side, so I'm inclined to agree that it is a left handed horn. Once again, why?

Perhaps the original owner had a serious thumb injury to the right hand - are there any indications of any accommodations for injuries on any of the keywork?
 
Perhaps it was for someone who had learnt to play some keyless woodwind instrument the wrong way round.

Some early woodwinds had duplicate keys for left/right handed playing.
 
There is a famous photo of the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra...

...in which all of the sax players seem to be playing left handed saxes. Try as you may to convince some blockheads to look at the sheet music on the fronts or the wedding rings on the wrong hands, they will still maintain that what we are seeing are left handed saxophones, three or four of them in one place.
 
When instruments are hand made rather than mass produced, it is easier to make variations. I have seen pix of other reversed tárogatók, as well as reversed simple system flutes. That is an interesting instrument--first I've ever seen with full plateau keys.
 
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