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Location: Carle Place, NY | In response to Northcountry's question:
There are some well known very good guitarists that are left handed, but play right handed. Paul Simon and Steve Morse are two examples. My 15 year old son has been taking guitar lessons for two years. He's left handed but plays right handed. He's had no problems learning and his progress is going very well. Some even believe that lefties have an edge because their stronger hand is on the neck working the frets. Also, I don't believe there are any left hand classical guitars, left handed violins, left handed cellos, etc.
That said, let's hear from the lefties out there. |
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Location: NJ | but what about the left handed door knobs, screw drives, glasses, knives, forks, plates, toilets etc??????????? |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | More on the subject:
http://www.guitartips.addr.com/tip55.html |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | I'm a lefty....and learned as easily as anyone else.
It really depends on how you're taught to do things I guess.
I naturally throw lefty of course (you start doing that very early in life in order to bonk your siblings on the head with hard objects)....but the first time I held a bat as a little kid my Dad stood over me and taught me to hold it and swing his way...righty. So that's how I do it now...even though I am a 49 year old women and know I could confound those stinking pitchers more from the other side of the plate.
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Location: NJ | Sorry to hear about that Multiple-Personality thing (". . I am a 49 year old women . . "), but you'll fit in very well here :-)
". . You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic . . ." |
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Location: SoCal | I am very strongly left handed, but I play guitar right handed. It makes good sense to me to have my good hand on the fretboard (although it doesn't seem to really do me any good). A good buddy of mine is Clark Byron (also an Ovation devotee). He's right handed but plays left. A very sick individual.
As to multiple personalities, I don't know anything about that. And neither do I. |
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Location: NJ | While I somewhat understand your rationale of wanting to use you dominant hand for fretting, I've always been a firm believer that a major part of your guitar playing style is in your right hand (picking/strumming) . . . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | It originates from bowed instruments like violin. The technique is in the bow (right hand). |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | I write left handed, but play right handed.
I throw right handed, but bowl left handed. My footing was backwards and I use to have the wrong foot forward and would hit my ancle from time to time.
In tennis I serve right handed, then switch to my left hand.
I use a hammer with my left hand, but if I get ticked off about something (like hitting a thumb), I switch hands and smash things with my right hand.
"I am as God made me." - Ambrose Monk |
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Location: SoCal | As long as both your feet point in the same direction.... |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I'm schizophrenic.
And so am I. |
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Location: Midland, MI | I have to admit, seeing a thread with the topic 'Right handed vs. Left Handed' posted by someone with the screen name 'Kerry' was a bit...bizzare. I was having flashbacks to the campaigns for some reason.
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | That's actually my real first name.
Not to start a political discussion....but I wouldn't even use it during the period prior to the election.
Maybe I should change my screen name.
I don't want everyone to think I am wishy-washy. |
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Location: Midland, MI | LOL! Kerry, that's rich...I really wasn't judging anyone. It just struck me odd to see 'Left vs. Right' and 'Kerry' all on the same line.
Personally, I'm apolitical...in my view, there isn't any difference between the two 'allowed' parties; they're just different marketing arms of the same organization. No point getting all hot and bothered by either of 'em, I say.
Now, Ross Perot.... :D |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | I am left handed but play right. Never had an issue to do it any other way would seem more than strange.
Steve |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | I think you're right Cruster.
No matter who gets in....things pretty much run along the way they always have.
Maybe I should stick to my Blues name:
Curly Fingers Davis.
I kinda like that one. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Interesting discussion
I do everything right handed, but this reminded me of something in my youth. I grew up on a farm, and my dad had worked in a sawmill when I was born in a sawmill shanty that looked like a boxcar without the wheels but with what they called skids so it could be hauled around as the sawmill moved. He was a great axe wielder and expected us boys to do the same so he introduced us to the double bitted axe at an early age and set us to work clearing overgrown areas on our farm. He never got over my tendency to use an axe left handed which seemed natural to me but strange to him. He accepted it as OK when I could clear as much of those new growth trees as the right handers, sometimes more. I still don't know where that left handed thing came from, but I feel the same way with a baseball bat or a golf club but have never pursued those sports. My mandolin and guitar playing has been pretty normal, but maybe I should try a left hander. Maybe that would be my secret talent!!!
Muddy Lemon Davis Bailey :cool:
(Kerry, I just noticed that you are part of the Davis family, are you an distant, unrecognized, relative of the great Jefferson Davis as I am?) |
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Well Bailey I just don't know.
I have been very lax in the geneological department.
Since we both have the good sense to play good guitars there's a good chance we are related. |
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