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You might also be going right if you’re going up in pitch and left if you’re going down, or if you’re left handed you’d go left to go up and right to go down, unless you’re playing piano, since then you’d always go right to go up and left to go down, or harp, where in is up and out is down. Singers and bugle players can go everywhere without going anywhere, but steel drum players have to travel across all dimensions of space and time. 😁
I think if you want to go up to go up and down to go down, you have to play the theremin. 🤣
At any rate, what I’m saying is that it’s only confusing if we’re thinking in terms of physical movement instead of musical movement. If we think in terms of musical movement, it’s the same across all instruments, and the physical movement is incidental. It’s how we do what we do, but it’s not what we do. Music is what we do.