Left-handed Puppetry on Sesame Street Query?

Skekayuk

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Just wondering,

Which of the puppeteers on Sesame Street puppeteer left-handed.

We know that on other muppet productions there's: Terry Angus, Richard Coombs, and, Mike Quinn

On Sesame, so far all I've got is:

Jerry Nelson breifly for about a year or two in the mid 1970s (due to an injury),

Louise Gold - who only puppeteered on Sesame Street during the early 1990s.

But who else puppeteered left-handed on Sesame Street? Because I reckond there's a mystery one here?
 

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Skekayuk said:
Jerry Nelson breifly for about a year or two in the mid 1970s (due to an injury),
I've never heard of that before. Where did you hear/ read this at?
 

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the lead singer for Over the Top (the ZZ Top parody band who did "ZZ Blues") was puppeteered by a lefty.. the voice is Jerry's, but I don't know why he would've been puppeteering left-handed in the 80s
 

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Well sometimes the contraints of the set might dictate that. I guess.
 

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Well sometimes the contraints of the set might dictate that. I guess.
now that you mention that.. Carroll Spinney had to perform Oscar left-handed for the first few episodes until the set was restructured so he could do it right-handed :grouchy:
 
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