It's typically buttons and programming stuff on the right. So you could argue that it's right handed because the keyboard stuff is on the right. But when you're running a show, it's the faders you need, and need to manipulate accurately and carefully, not the programming stuff. If they were for people who were most used to manipulating things accurately with their right hand, then I think the faders would be on the right.

So I guess it's a long winded way of saying that it seems as though most lighting operators are fundamentally left-handed, which is quite .. curious? I don't know what the right word is