On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 10:58:45 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 4:29:23 PM UTC-10, wrote:
> > On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 8:09:41 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
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> > > I taught a guy to play the guitar back in the 70's. We went down to Metronome music in downtown Honolulu to pick a guitar. I did my best to convince him to play the correct way but for some reason, he wanted to play the wrong way. In the end, he picked up a beautiful guitar and I strung it up for him to play lefty. Beats me why he insisted on playing like this. It's tough being a lefty guitar player in a world of guitars.
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> > Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix are/were left-handed gee-tar
> > players.
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> Jimi's dad wanted his son to play the correct way but that never took hold, and the rest is history.
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For a leftie playing with their left hand IS the correct way.
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> As a practical matter, playing lefty means you can't pick up a guitar and start playing - like everybody else can. Buying a new lefty guitar can be more expensive OTOH, selling a used lefty can be somewhat harder to do. Your pool of buyers is greatly reduced. The one advantage that I can think of is that a used lefty guitar will be discounted some.
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> Take it from me, just learn to play the correct way.
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See my comment above.