BarkellWH -> RE: left-handed player looking to convert a righty guitar (Sep. 18 2011 19:17:32)
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The topic of left-handed guitars interests me. I have been left-handed all my life. I write left-handed; play squash holding the racquet in the left hand; and as a kid I played baseball, throwing the ball with the left hand. None of this could I then, nor can I now, do well with the right hand. Nevertheless, when my father bought me my first guitar, when I was 17, I learned to play it right-handed, and it seemed as natural as writing with my left hand did. It just seemed completely natural to work the fretboard with my left hand and strum and play the strings with my right hand, even though I was strongly left-handed. Question for anyone with a similar experience or an idea of what this is about. Is my experience, described above, unique? Do most lefties feel more comfortable playing the strings with the left hand, in which case I am some sort of wierd aberration? (Note: I have been called worse!) Or is the guitar itself unique, in that if one starts out playing it right-handed it can seem just as natural (as it did for me) to a left-hander as to a right-hander? Cheers, Bill
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