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Location: Michigan | Last night my better half had some people over from an art class she attends every week.
One of her artist friends had mentioned that her husband was heavily involved in guitar theory and is a teacher and that he would like to bring a guitar over and jam a bit with me.He came over with a left handed Guild acoustic .He was admiring my guitars and I said its to bad that he was a lefty because I wanted to hear him play my guitars.He said thats no problem and grabs my Adamas 12 string and starts plucking away right handed.I stood in awe at the talent of this guy and then he says play something and I will follow you, I pooped myself for a minute thinking this is like a Frank Zappa asking a first grader to play with him.It all was good and we played for a couple of hours with a great audience.I havent played in front of a group of people for over 35 years , it was great. Its amazing that someone can play a guitar with the strings on righthanded or lefthanded.Just for SH%TS & Giggles I had to pick up his lefty and try to play it.IMPOSSIBLE for me to do.
It boggles my mind how anyone could do that.
Are their any famous guitar players that you know that can do that?
Can anyone here play both ways???
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I got a left-handed classical guitar in on consignment a couple of weeks ago. A bunch of us sat around one day and tried playing it. It was hilarious! Some of us did OK with D and A, but C was a real toughie. As a finger-picker, my nails got in the way, but I could see that if anything ever happened to my left hand, it would be possible to learn to chord and strum with a hook if need be.
I often get kids in who are left-handed, wanting to buy a guitar and take lessons. I encourage them to start out right-handed. They have such a larger choice in guitars, they don't have to pay an extra hundred bucks, and if they aren't already used to playing left-handed, there is really no difference, (except that I have to admit that lefties seem to have more talent. Jarrett Weimer, my super-kid who is the best young guitarist I have ever met in 36 years of teaching is one of them.) |
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Location: East Tennessee | I'm left handed but play right handed.
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Location: CA | You think that's hard, I remember reading about a young baseball pitcher (in Puerto Rico, I think) who was passionate about going to the big leagues until he was told there were already too many right-handed pitchers. So he switched and became so proficient with his left that he eventually had a shot at the bigs. Can't remember the name, but the story was great.
Having done a bit of magic (in addition to guitar playing) in my youth, I also have high respect for people who can 'perform' equally with both hands. I've tried time and time again to palm coins in my left hand and it just ain't a-gonna happen. LOL
Additional meaningless tidbit — I work in publishing and the only triple-redundancy I've seen in 30 years was in a story describing a jockey who, it noted, "was equally ambidextrous with both hands." |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | The desk clerk in my building was looking for a leftie guitar for her ol' man. So I was helping her in her search.
I believe the guy at Apple Music told me that the only guitars that don't cost more for lefties are Larrivee's, cuz the owner/designer/whomever is Left-handed. (correct me if I am wrong)
But back to ambidextrous... There is always this guy... But I don't know if this counts, or it's just a little gimmick. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Oddball:
a jockey who, it noted, "was equally ambidextrous with both hands." Excessive prolixity of verbose writers annoys me. |
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Location: SoCal | I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I'm ambivalent about the whole thing. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Capo Guy and Moody, yes that counts, and is exactly what I was talking about. Think about it...your left hand is your "smart" hand, so it would follow that doing the complicated stuff that our left hands do, while our right hands do the easy part would make you better guitarists than us righties. My sister is left handed, and she's incredibly talented. I know you've had to go through life pinching your hand on the scissors and smearing ink on the page, but I'm still jealous. |
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Location: SoCal | C.S., there was somebody here on the board a while back who was left handed and just bound and determined to buy a lefty guitar. I did everything I could to tell them to learn to play righty, but to no avail.
Being left handed, I've always thought that if I had any talent (which I don't), that having my left hand on the fingerboard is the best thing..... |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Well, having read what's here so far, I have concluded that neither hand is "smart;" I don't seem to be inordinarily talented with either one...and this after over 30 years of playing. I guess in one sense, then, I am ambidextrous--just not in a very beneficial way. :D ;)
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Location: GA USA | iM ambdxroooos anto prov ti iem typgin thsi wih mu lefg ahdn |
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Location: Yorkshire, England | Is ambidextrous having the ability to play under water as well as on land? If so - no ! I'd get me guitar wet. |
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Location: Indiana | I make as many mistakes with the right hand as the left. Does that count. Can't type with either. Is that nonbidextrous?
Steve Morse is a lefty plays righty. Hendrix could play a lefty guitar, or a righty flopped over.
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Location: big island | i strum with my right hand and play chords with my left. does that count? |
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Location: Central NJ | I had a good friend who sadly passed away last year who played upside down and backwards. He taught himself to play a right handed guitar left handed. He would just flip it over. It was tuned normal. Video |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Captain Black:
Is ambidextrous having the ability to play under water as well as on land? Noper, that would be amphibidextrous! :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | there was this guy, Michael Angelo (The one on Old Man Aurther's link) he called himself and he used to play at the washburn booth on a double neck v, necks set out from each other and he'd do all that hammer on widdley widdley stuff with both hands at the same time. Very impressive, but so what? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Hard to say.
My left hand doesn't know what my right is doing. |
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| Left hand, right hand.
No problem hitting the caps lock. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | DOUBLE POST DOUBLE POST DOUBLE POST DOUBLE POST DOUBLE POST
I decide to keep the 2nd post.......
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | OK I HIT THE KAP LOKS.............. DOES THAT MEAN I AM AMBIDEXTROUS OR JUST GENERALLY ANNOYING BECAUSE I IGNORE EVERYONE'S REQUESTS TO QUIT POSTING MY TOPICS IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS
AND DOES MAKING THIS BOLD AND ALL CAPS CAUSE IT TO BE EVEN MORE ANNOYING. AM I NOW YELLING OR SCREAMING OR BOTH???
AND IF I DO BOTH ALL CAPS AND BOLD PLUS ITALICS AM I BECOMING JUST AS ANNOYING AS TOPICS POSTED IN ALL CAPS..... OR HAVE I PASSED OVER THE THRESHOLD OF HUMAN PAIN AND TOLERANCE WITH MY ALL CAPS/BOLD/ITALICS ANNOYING AS HELL RESPONSE! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Using the third hand was over the top, Stephen. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | CAN YOU SPEAK UP STEPHEN? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER ALL THE SHOUTING. |
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Location: Michigan | stephent28, you really need to chill out about caps lock so you dont have a stroke over it.
I take it that you are a guitar player and most likely have your own style of playing.
I remember Frank Zappa ,The Kingsmen ect. getting pulled into this type of situation on someone wanting them to change the lyrics of their songs because some people thought that it was disrespectfull to some people hearing those lyrics.
I have my own style of posting and that is posting in CAPS.You keep telling me in my posts that I am disrespectfull and annoying because I type my posts in CAPS.That is not my intention.
When I joined the OFC thats the way I did posts, and until a couple of years later did someone say something about I was yelling.It just became a thing I do and its my style so "gees" lighten up on it.
We have members that misspell every other word ( JA%ON )and I guess to an English teacher that might offend them , but most of us have some fun with it . Out of the hundreds of posts that I have done I have only heard about it a few times. PLEASE dont be offended by my CAPS.
All people have different styles and Im not going to change mine because a few take a dislike to it , thats just me.
I hope that anyone who feels disrespected because of my CAPS ...
I APOLOGIZE TO YOU BUT GET USED TO IT.
I do not take any personal offense to anyone on this subject because that is your style on not liking my CAPS.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | GEE....I GUESS I FINALLY GOT A RESPONSE.
GET USED TO ME ANSWERING ALL YOUR INQUIRES IN ALL CAPS!
ALL CAPS ARE RUDE AND IMPROPER FORUM ETIQUETTE. YOU CHOOSE TO IGNORE PROPER ETIQUETTE SO GET USED TO ME YELLING OUT ALL MY ANSWERS IN A RUDE MANNER AND IGNORING YOUR REQUEST TO CHILL OUT!
I WILL CONTAIN MY RUDE YELLING AND IMPROPER BEHAVIOR TO JUST INSIDE ALL OF YOUR POSTS.
GET USED TO IT AND GLAD YOU CAN RESPECT ME FOR IT. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | OH YEAH..... DON'T BE SURPRISED IF MOST OF WHAT I HAVE TO SAY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TOPIC YOU POSTED.
RUDE IS RUDE WHATEVER FORM IT IS PRESENTED IN.
MANY OF US HAVE ASKED YOU NICELY TO KILL THE CAPS OVER THE LAST YEAR AND YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO IGNORE US.
NOW I'M GONNA GIVE YOU ALL THE ATTENTION YOU DESERVE! |
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Location: SoCal | Chill Stephen. Come on over to my house. I gotta beer with your name on it and we'll play some music..... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | IS IT A TAYLOR?
CAUSE YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT TAYLORS
WELL, ACTUALLY I LIKE MY DDSM A LOT.
WHAT KINDA BEER YOU TALKIN ABOUT?
IS IT A FULL ROBUST BEER THAT SHOUTS OUT THE FLAVOR???
SORRY PAUL, BUT AFTER A YEAR OF ASKING NICE, I GROW WEARY.........
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Location: Phoenix AZ | THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE - OBVIOUSLY THE PEOPLE THAT USED TO INSIST ON POSTING IN CAPITALS WANTED TO DO SO TO CALL ATTENTION TO THEIR COMMENTS. SO NOW I PROPOSE THAT WE ALL POST IN CAPITALS AND MAYBE THOSE WHO USED TO DO IT TO BE DIFFERENT WILL STOP. |
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Location: Michigan | stephent28,how come your letters are much darker then mine? How do you do that ?
I wish everybody on this board would post in this manner.I have very bad eyesight and the way you sent your last two replys are very easy for me to read .Thanks and everybody please post your replys to my blogs in this manner.I like it.GWB |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
stephent28,how come your letters are much darker then mine? How do you do that ?
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I AM A VERY TALENTED INDIVIDUAL!
Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
I wish everybody on this board would post in this manner. .
HOPEFULLY EVERYONE WILL POST THIS WAY IN ALL OF YOUR FUTURE THREADS AND YOUR WISH WILL BE GRANTED! |
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Location: Michigan | Thanks StephenT28,I knew we could work this out.
Heres to all...GWB
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | GWB. It is commonly known that it is not considered good web etiquette to write in capitals, unless you are trying to EMPHASISE SOMETHING!
THEN, it's ok. Kept to a minimum.
I originally picked you up on it in private - a friendly suggestion that you curtail this habit. You basically said that's what you always did on eBay and your thread headers. I can understand using this method to get attention on eBay. I might even adopt that one myself as a marketing strategy.
But if someone asked me to stop... I'd stop.
Ignoring my request / suggestion and your continued use of this style is emphatically saying to me "screw you".
No, actually you're saying "SCREW YOU!"
Other members have also picked you up on it and you continue to do it. "SCREW THEM TOO" eh?
Yeah. It bothers me. But not JUST me.
Why are you being so arrogant about this? We're all friends here, why do you continue to do things that piss your friends off?
SHOUTING! is frowned upon / condemned internationally on the internet, not just by a couple of anally retentive Old Farts.
HEY Y'ALL! LOOKY HERE. I'VE PUT UP ANOTHER THREAD! Let the subject of your thread attract attention, not the font.
And your threads ARE ALWAYS interesting. Keep it up. I mean that.
But DON'T keep subliminally telling me to get screwed BY IGNORING MY REQUEST (and others.)
And no, it's not like somebody who continually makes spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Not all of us have degrees. Most times, they're either dealing with real literacy issues (Ja%on) or are just poor typists (you know who you are.)
These people don't choose to annoy anyone with their 'mistakes'. You CHOOSE to annoy people.
That's the difference!
Please stop posting thread headers in all capitals.
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Location: Michigan | Sorry you feel that way , I am not saying SCREW YOU when I use CAPS and I am not going to say it again.
I have said time after time that I am not being disrespectfull to anybody by doing CAPS in my POSTS ONLY its my style and if you dont like it TOUGH SH&t. I tryed to be nice but now you are just being AS$%Holes about it.I sure hope that nothing comes into your life that really has some merit to it because you worry about something so stupid like a CAPITAL LETTER hurting your feelings on a computer.
I hope that you sensitive people never have a serious real problem in your life that would really make you realize that your issue with CAPS on a computer mean NOTHING!!! Get a life!!! GWB. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
I am not saying SCREW YOU when I use CAPS If that's the case, then why do you say...
Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
its my style and if you dont like it TOUGH SH&t. So you ARE saying "screw you"!
Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
I tryed to be nice but now you are just being AS$%Holes about it. Being nice would be to stop doing it.
Being an arsehole would be what YOU'RE doing by calling US arseholes.
Read my post again. I never once attacked you personally or called you names.
6500+ members and you're the ONLY one that does it EVERY SINGLE TIME you start a thread. What does that tell you?
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Chill Stephen. Come on over to my house. I gotta beer with your name on it and we'll play some music..... You got beer called Stephen over there? :eek:
You ever had a Dicken's Cider? ;) |
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Location: SoCal | Anybody notice that Clifford uses caps not just within sentences, but within words? What's funny is that knowing him fairly well, when he does that, I can hear him speaking what he wrote and hear the inflections from the caps.
Sometimes, knowing that about Clifford, it scares the hell outta me..... |
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CLICK! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'll bet there's not really 6500 members here, probably only about 8 of us in various degrees of split personalities.
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
I'll bet there's not really 6500 members here, probably only about 8 of us in various degrees of split personalities.
Dave You could be right. After all, you account for 3-4 of them yourself..... |
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Location: NJ | I kinda' find the posting in all CAPS annoying as HELL as well.
The initial requests regarding it were polite & pleasant enough . .
. . and were ignored.
It's since denegrated to coming down to verbal blows.
If you find the whole "caps" thing annoying (like I do), and the individual just simply REFUSES, I would suggest just completely IGNORING any & all posts/polls posted in this fashion (like I do).
For the most part, they're usually pretty INSIPID and INANE, anyway . . . |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Anybody notice that Clifford uses caps not just within sentences, but within words? What's funny is that knowing him fairly well, when he does that, I can hear him speaking what he wrote and hear the inflections from the caps.
Sometimes, knowing that about Clifford, it scares the hell outta me..... In the computer geek industry, we call that CamelCase . I guess around here we should call it LlamaCase.
Regarding the all caps equals shouting issue.. it's been part of common-sense "Netiquette" for more than 25 years for a reason. Online text (email, forums, etc) lacks cues like facial expression and tone of voice. In the absence of those cues, recipients are left with little basis to interpret emotion. Things like typing in all caps, no caps, spelling and grammatical errors, typing without punctuation, etcetera are the only basis upon which the recipient can establish emotional context. You're typing your words in the comfort of your own home or office knowing your own intention, but remember those words are being read by hundreds, if not thousands, of people all over the world who don't have the benefit of that knowledge.
You can say I'M NOT SHOUTING until you're blue in the face, but in a lot of peoples' eyes, you're always going to be starting off your conversations on the wrong foot.. even for those people who've read this thread and know you don't mean any offense. It's like a " close talker ".. they don't mean to violate anybody's personal space, but they do it anyway and it makes people uncomfortable.
If you're typing in all caps because it's easier for you to see, I'd suggest you explore the default font settings and zooming capabilities of your browser and operating system. |
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ARE ANY OFC'ERS AMBIDEXTROUS GUITAR PLAYERS ???