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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: Vernon CT | That takes talent, Something I don't have very much of!! ;) |
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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.
Does that count? |
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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: Phoenix AZ | I think Moody is lefty and plays righty. |
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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: Atlanta, GA. | I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous! |
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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.
Bill |
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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: SoCal | WHAT? |
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ARE ANY OFC'ERS AMBIDEXTROUS GUITAR PLAYERS ???
