I'm lefty, wanna play with righty guitar? (house, hendrix, quote)

UrbanAncients · 12-19-2007, 09:05 AM

Okay, I'm gonna stop trying soon! My advice would be to sell the current guitar and use the money to buy a left handed guitar.

Greta · 12-31-2007, 09:37 AM

My friend is lefthanded and she has no problem playing righty guitar

littleknowitall · 12-31-2007, 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by right-track

Nope.
Not unless you reversed the nut and the saddle on the bridge.
The saddle is set at an angle for intonation.

About.com: http://www.guitarrepairshop.com/repairlefty.html

Isn't that dependant on the individual guitar.

**right-track** · 12-31-2007, 09:45 AM

I know it is for acoustic.

littleknowitall · 12-31-2007, 09:50 AM

Im pretty sure you could still do it on like an epiphone or vintage or gibson.

**right-track** · 12-31-2007, 09:52 AM

Without reversing the nut?

Music Resource · 01-05-2008, 11:51 AM

As mentioned above, you could restring it and play it upside down and left-handed. Or, you could buy a left-handed guitar. Elliot Easton of The Cars plays a lefty.

**right-track** · 01-05-2008, 01:08 PM

So there you have it Rez.
Either learn to play a right handed guitar upside down, or have one modified, or you could always be a smart arse and buy a left handed guitar...

they're for left handed people dontchaknow.

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12-31-2007, 09:52 AM
right-track Avin' It! Join Date: May 2005 Location: THE PEOPLES ЯEPUBLIK ФF MAИCUИIA Posts: 5,048	Without reversing the nut? __________________ Choose Liverpool. Choose the dole queue. Choose to scam disability benefit. Choose mind-numbing, grinding efficiency over flair. Choose Torben Piechnik, Istvan Kozma and Paul Stewart. Choose not to win a single league title since the backpass rule was implemented. Choose penalties. Choose car stereos, hubcaps and stanley knives. Choose to trade on your proud sense of tradition and then not lift a finger in protest when two American billionaires who don't even know the name of your club decide to buy it. Choose to win the European Cup whilst only having to play seven matches. Choose to bask in a perpetual, sickening, media love-in. Choose celebrities who ** off out of your city as soon as they have earned the money to do so and then spend the rest of their lives harping on about how wonderful it is. Choose to sing about Munich until confronted with your own tragedy. Choose to end it all in an orgy of self pity, just another excuse to perpetuate the grief culture spawned by your selfish, insular **ed-up excuse for a city. Choose your future. Choose Scouse.

01-05-2008, 11:51 AM
Music Resource Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 52	As mentioned above, you could restring it and play it upside down and left-handed. Or, you could buy a left-handed guitar. Elliot Easton of The Cars plays a lefty. __________________ ( @ )( @ ) ~Music Resource~

01-05-2008, 01:08 PM
right-track Avin' It! Join Date: May 2005 Location: THE PEOPLES ЯEPUBLIK ФF MAИCUИIA Posts: 5,048	So there you have it Rez. Either learn to play a right handed guitar upside down, or have one modified, or you could always be a smart arse and buy a left handed guitar... they're for left handed people dontchaknow. __________________ Choose Liverpool. Choose the dole queue. Choose to scam disability benefit. Choose mind-numbing, grinding efficiency over flair. Choose Torben Piechnik, Istvan Kozma and Paul Stewart. Choose not to win a single league title since the backpass rule was implemented. Choose penalties. Choose car stereos, hubcaps and stanley knives. Choose to trade on your proud sense of tradition and then not lift a finger in protest when two American billionaires who don't even know the name of your club decide to buy it. Choose to win the European Cup whilst only having to play seven matches. Choose to bask in a perpetual, sickening, media love-in. Choose celebrities who ** off out of your city as soon as they have earned the money to do so and then spend the rest of their lives harping on about how wonderful it is. Choose to sing about Munich until confronted with your own tragedy. Choose to end it all in an orgy of self pity, just another excuse to perpetuate the grief culture spawned by your selfish, insular **ed-up excuse for a city. Choose your future. Choose Scouse.