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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | We had a guest player last Sunday who was left-handed, yet he played a right-handed guitar simply flipped over to the right. The bass strings were on the bottom, and all of his chords were played upside down. He said he learned this way and it didn't seem to affect his playing, although he wasn't doing anything too difficult. Anybody ever see this? At least he didn't have to reverse tabs, just flip them over. He said he couldn't play a single acoustic cutaway, since it was backwards, but then I suggested, as a joke, that he buy a left-handed cutaway, change out the nut, bridge and pickguard to right-handed, restring it right-handed, then flip it over and play it left-handed like he normally does, to which he replied that he'd actually tried it once this way without the nut, bridge and pickguard mods. That was good for a chuckle. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Yepper...I was at an open-mic up in St Paul a few weeks ago and saw a guy doing that. Didn't play any particularly technical stuff...just strumming and singing...but it seemed to work for him. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Can you say Albert King? |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Ole can do it , he plays a regular guitar righthanded , flips it over during the song , and continues Lefthandedly , if I had not seen him doing it , I would not have believed it. |
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| I knew a guy who played that way and was always breaking E strings. Strange but true. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Many years ago I saw Dave Mason and the bass player in his band played a righty bass upside down. His guitar was very unusual in that it had a lefty body but a righty neck with the strings upside down and the tuners in what now is called reverse position.
Look at Wayman Tisdale |
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Location: SoCal | I've got a good friend who plays lefty and he also takes a left handed guitar and strings it for rightys...... |
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Location: big island | hendrix played like that sometimes, didn't he? |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I think he did all the time |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I thought Hendrix played a right handed guitar, but it was strung lefty. The difference here is that this guy mentioned in the beginning of this thread was playing a right handed guitar strung righty, but played lefty. More talk like this and the world is going to shift off its axis. |
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| Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
I thought Hendrix played a right handed guitar, but it was strung lefty. I think he did.
I remember Clapton saying that he'd seen a left handed Strat somewhere and bought it to give to Hendrix. He saw Hendrix at a club that night but didn't get a chance to talk to him; the next day or soon thereafter, Hendrix was dead and Clapton was stuck with a left handed Strat.
Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
... playing a right handed guitar strung righty, but played lefty. I knew a guy who played guitar and bass like that. |
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Lefty playing righty upside down